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 Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?  Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Every path has its puddle. He is . . . like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him. Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one. As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you. The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut. Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Our true nationality is mankind. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people tend to be satisfied by what you do. I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation. 
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