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The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

CHAPTER VI
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A whole man should be supple in his reactions both to the inner and to the outer world.
The third strand in the life of the Spirit, for this normal self which we are considering; must be the disposition of complete Surrender.

More and more advancing in this inner life, it will feel the imperative attraction of Reality, of God; and it must respond to this attraction with all the courage and generosity of which it is capable.

I am trying to use the simplest and the most general language, and to avoid emotional imagery: though it is here, in telling of this perpetually renewed act of self-giving and dedication, that spiritual writers most often have recourse to the language of the heart.

It is indeed in a spirit of intensest and humble adoration that generous souls yield themselves to the drawing of that mysterious Beauty and unchanging Love, with all that it entails.

But the form which the impulse to surrender takes will vary with the psychic make-up of the individual.


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