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Speaker 1: Right thinking, and repose. Life is a combination of habits,

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some baneful, some beneficent, all of which take their rise

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in one habit of thinking. The thought makes the man. Therefore,

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right thinking is the most important thing in life. The

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essential difference between a wise man and a fool is

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that the wise man controls his thinking, the fool is

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controlled by it. A wise man determines how and what

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he shall think, and does not allow external things to

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divert his thoughts from the main purpose. But a fool

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is carried captive by every tyrant thought as it is

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aroused within him by external things, and he goes through

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life the helpless tool of impulse, wom and passion. Careless

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slovenly thinking, commonly called thoughtlessness, is the companion of failure, wrongdoing,

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and wretchedness. Nothing, no prayers, nor religious ceremonies, not even

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acts of charity, can make up for wrong thinking. Only

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right thinking can rectify a wrong life. Only the right

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attitude of mind towards men and things can bring repose

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and peace. The triumphant life is only for him whose

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heart and intellect are attuned to lofty virtue. He must

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make his thought logical, sequential, harmonious, symmetrical. He must mold

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in shape his thinking to fixed principles, and thereby establish

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his life on the sure foundation of knowledge. He must

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not merely be kind. He must be intelligently kind, must

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know why he is kind. His kindness must be an

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invariable quality, and not an intermittent impulse interspersed with fits

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of resentment and acts of harshness. He must not merely

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be virtuous under virtuous circumstances. His virtue must be of

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a kind that shall continue to shine with unabated light

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when he is assailed with vicious circumstances. He must not

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allow himself to be hurled from the throne of divine

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manhood by the shocks of fate or the praises and

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blame of those around him. Virtue must be his abiding habitat,

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his refuge from the whirlwind and the storm. And virtue

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is not only of the heart, it is of the

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intellect also, And without this virtue of the intellect, the

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virtue of the heart is imperiled. Reason, like passion, has

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its vices. Metaphysical speculations are the riot of the intellect,

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as sensuality is the right of the affections. The highest

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flights of speculation, pleasing as they are, reveal no place

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of rest, and the strained mind must return to facts

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and moral principles to find that truth which it seeks.

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As the soaring bird returns for refuge and rest to

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its nest in the rock, so must the speculative thinker

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return to the rock of virtue for surety and peace.

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The intellect must be trained to comprehend the principles of

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virtue and to understand all that is involved in their practice.

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Its energies must be restrained from wasteful indulgence in vain subtleties,

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and be directed in the path of righteousness, in the

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way of wisdom. The thinker must distinguish in his own

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mind between reality and assumption. He must discover the extent

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of his actual knowledge. He must know what he knows.

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He must also know what he does not know. He

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must learn to discriminate between belief and knowledge, error and truth.

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In his search for the right attitude of mind, which

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perceives truth and works out a wise and radiant life.

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He must be more logical than logic, more merciless in

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exposing the errors of his own mind than the most

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sarcastic logician is in exposing the errors of the minds

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of others. After pursuing this course of discrimination for a

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short time, he will be astonished to find how small

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is the extent of his actual knowledge. Yet he will

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be gladdened by its possession. For small as it is,

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it is the pure gold of knowledge. And what is

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better to have a few grains of gold hidden away

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in tons of oree where it is useless, or to

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extract the gold and throw away the ore. As the

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miner sifts away bush shells of dull earth to find

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the sparkling diamond, so the spiritual miner, the truth thinker,

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sifts away from his mind and the accumulation of opinions, beliefs, speculations,

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and assumptions, to find the bright jewel of truth, which

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bestows upon his possessor wisdom and enlightenment, and the concentrated

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knowledge which is ultimately brought to light. By this sifting process,

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is found to be so closely akin to virtue that

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it cannot be divided from it cannot be set apart

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as something different. In his search for knowledge, Socrates discovered virtue.

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The divine maxims of the great teachers are maxims of virtue.

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When knowledge is separated from virtue, wisdom is lost. What

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a man practices that he knows. What he does not practice,

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that he does not know. A man may write treatises

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or preach sermons on love, But if he treats his

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family harshly or thinks spitefully of his enemy, what knowledge

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has he concerning love? In the heart of the man

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of knowledge, there dwells a silent and abiding compassion that

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shames the fine words of the noisy theorist. He only

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knows what peace is, whose heart is free from hatred,

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who lives in peace? With all cunning definitions of virtue

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only serve to deepen ignorance when they proceed from vice

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stained lips. Knowledge is the deepest source than the mere

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memorizing of information. That knowledge is divine, which proceeds from

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acquaintance with virtue. The humility which purges the intellect of

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its empty opinions and vain assumptions, also fortifies it with

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a searching insight and invincible power. There is a divine

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logic which is indistinguished from love. The reply quote, he

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that is without sin among you, let him cast the

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first stone unquote is unanswerable. Logic. It is also perfect love.

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The wrong thinker is known by his vices. The right

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thinker is known by his virtues. Troubles and unrest assail

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the mind of the wrong thinker, and he experiences no

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abiding repose. He imagines that others can injure, snub, cheat, degrade,

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and ruin him. Knowing nothing of the protection of virtue,

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he seeks the protection of self and takes refuge in suspicion, spite, resentment,

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and retaliation, and is burnt in the fire of his

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own vices. When slandered, he slanders in return. When accused,

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he discriminates. When assailed, he turns upon his adversary with

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double fierceness. Quote I have been treated unjustly unquote, exclaims

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the wrong thinker, and then abandons himself to resentment and misery.

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Having no insight and unable to distinguish evil from good,

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he cannot see that his own evil, and not his neighbors,

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is the cause of all his trouble. The right think

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is not concerned with thoughts about self and self protection,

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and the wrong actions of others towards him cannot cause

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him trouble or unrest. He cannot think quote this man

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has wronged me unquote. He perceives that no wrong can

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reach him but by his own evil deeds. He understands

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that his welfare is at his own hands, and thus

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none but himself can rub him of his repose virtues,

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his protection, and retaliation is foreign to him. He holds

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himself steadfastly in peace, and resentment cannot enter his heart.

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Temptate cannot find him unprepared, and it assails in vain

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the strong citadel of his mind, Abiding in virtue, he

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abides in strength and peace. The right thinker has discovered

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and acquired the right attitude of mind toward men and things,

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the attitude of a profound and loving repose. And this

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is not resignation, It is wisdom. It is not indifference,

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but watchful and penetrating insight. He has comprehended the facts

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of life. He sees things as they are. He does

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not overlook the particulars of life, but reads them in

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the light of cosmic law, sees them in their right relations,

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as the proportions of the universal scheme. He sees the

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universes upheld by justice. He watches, but does not engage

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in the pitu quarrels and fleeting strifes of men. He

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cannot be partisan. He sympathies withal. He cannot favor one

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portion more than another. He knows that good will ultimately

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conquer in the world, as it is conquered in individuals.

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That there is a sense in which good already conquers.

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For evil defeats itself. Good is not defeated. Justice is

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not set aside whatever a man may do. Justice reigns,

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and its eternal throne cannot be assailed and threatened, much

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less conquered and overthrown. This is the source of the

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true thinker's abiding repose. Having become righteous, he perceives a

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righteous law. Having acquired love, he understands the eternal love.

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Having conquered evil, he knows that good is supreme. He

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is only the true thinker, whose heart is free from hatred,

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lust and pride, who looks out upon the world through

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eyes watched free from evil, whose bitterest enemy arouses no enmity,

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but only tender pity in his heart, who does not

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talk vainly about things of which he has no knowledge,

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and whose heart is ally is at peace. And by

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this a man may know that his thoughts are in

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accordance with the truth, that there is no more bitterness

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in his heart, that malice has departed from him, that

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he loves what he formerly condemned. A man may be learned,

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but if he is not wise, he will not be

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a true thinker. Not by learning will a man triumph

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over evil. Not by much study wily overcome sin and sorrow.

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Only by conquering himself will he conquer evil. Only by

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practicing righteousness will he put an end to sorrow. Not

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for the clever, nor the learned, nor the self confident

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is the life triumphant. But for the pere, the virtuous,

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the wise. The former achieved they particular success in life,

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But the latter alone achieved great success, a success so

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invincible and complete that even an apparent defeat shines with

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added victory. Virtue cannot be shaken, Virtue cannot be confounded,

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Virtue cannot be overthrown. He who thinks in accordance with virtue,

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who acts righteously, whose mind is the servant of truth, heed,

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it is who conquers in life and in death, For

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virtue must triumph, and righteousness and truth are the pillars

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of the universe.