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Life
is a continual passage from one illusion to another. No sooner has
the eager volunteer found out
that the desire to help is apt to be treated as evidence of a
criminal disposition, and that
war-work is as shy as deer in the depths of a forest - no sooner
has he or she discovered these things
than yet another discovery destroys yet another illusion.
The war-work when brought to bay and caught is not the right kind of
war-work. You - for I may as well admit
that I am talking direct to the eager volunteer -
you had expected something else. This war-work that presents itself
is either beneath your powers, or
it is beyond your powers; or it is unsuited to your individuality
or to your social station or to your
health or to your hands or feet. You can scarcely
say what you had expected, but at any rate . . . I will tell you
what you had expected. from
“Self and Self-Management”
In
commencing a course of lectures on Mental Science, it is somewhat
difficult for the lecturer to fix
upon the best method of opening the subject. It can be approached
from many sides, each with some peculiar
advantage of its own; but, after careful deliberation,
it appears to me that, for the purpose of the present course, no
better starting-point could be
selected than the relation between Spirit and Matter. I select
this starting-point because the
distinction -- or what we believe to be such -- between them
is one with which we are so familiar that I can safely assume its
recognition by everybody; and I
may, therefore, at once state this distinction by using the
adjectives which we habitually
apply as expressing the natural opposition between the two --
living spirit and dead matter. from
“The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science”
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