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They have innocence, because they do not think from any interior principle; for they do not as yet know what is good and evil, and what is true and false, as the ground of their thoughts; in consequence of which they have not a prudence originating in selfhood, nor any deliberate purpose; of course they do not regard any evil as an end.
Originality does not consist in a fidgety assertion of selfhood, but in the faculty of getting rid of it altogether, that the truer genius of the man, which commerces with universal nature and with other souls through a common sympathy with that, may take all his powers wholly to itself, and the truly original man could no more be jealous of his peculiar gift, than the grass could take credit to itself for being green.
Every act of deliberate choice, with your aid, in a sense of the seriousness of choice, goes to establish the character that does not drift, is not dragged, and will not go save with its whole selfhood of feeling, knowing, choosing, and willing. An angry child is a child in rebellion. Rebellion is sometimes justifiable. Anger may be a virtue.
But she continued to look him full in the face, without quailing before him, with the indomitable will of her individuality, of her selfhood. She was beautiful and provoking, with her tall, slender figure, robed in its black blouse; and her exquisite, youthful fairness, her straight forehead, her finely cut nose, her firm chin, took on something of a warlike charm in her rebellion.
Modern interest in the material factors of life is on account of their potency in making real selfhood; we acknowledge the importance of the physical as the very soil in which life grows. But the fruits are more than the soil, and a home exists for higher purposes than physical conveniences; these are but its tools to its great end.
The divine Self puts forth, for the manifestation of its powers, a new and finer vesture, the body of the spiritual man. Vestures of consciousness are built up in conformity with the Boston of the feeling of selfhood. The Self, says a great Teacher, in turn attaches itself to three vestures: first, to the physical body, then to the finer body, and thirdly to the causal body.
The last fragments of selfhood, the very desire for spiritual satisfaction the fundamental human tendency to drag down the Simple Fact and make it ours, instead of offering ourselves to it must be sought out and killed.
In his Verse the Sunshine laughs; the Mountains give forth their sonorous Echoes; the swift Lightnings flash. The great continual cadence of universal Life moves and becomes articulate in human language. O Joy profound! O boundless Selfhood! O Godlike Personality! All the Gold of the Sunset is thine; the Pillars of Chrysolite; and the purple Vault of Immensity!
It is out of the struggle to revere and conserve human personality, out of the belief in the indefectible worth and honor of selfhood that our race has fronted a universe in arms, and pitting its soul against nature has cried, "God is my refuge: underneath me, at the very moment when I am engulfed in earthquake shock or shattered in the battle's roar, there are everlasting arms!"
How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here; but what grand efficacity of super-ethics! You remember what Light on the Path says about the man who is a link between the noise of the market-place and the silence of the snow-capped Himalayas; and what it says about the danger of seeking to sow good karma for oneself, how the man that does so will only be sowing the giant weed of selfhood.
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