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LIFE'S TURMOIL
by James Allen
Foreword
We cannot alter external things, nor shape other
people to our liking, nor mould the world to our wishes but we can alter
internal things,-our desires, passions, thoughts,-we can shape our liking to
other people, and we can mould the inner world of our own mind in accordance
with wisdom, and so reconcile it to the outer world if men and things. The
turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can
overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can
rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a
quiet mind; involved in responsibilities, the heart can be at rest; in the midst
of strife, we can know the abiding peace. The twenty pieces which comprise this
book, unrelated as some of them are in the letter, will be found to be
harmonious in the spirit, in that they point the reader towards those heights of
self-knowledge and self-conquest which, rising above the turbulance of the
world, lift their peaks where the Heavenly Silence reigns.
James Allen
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