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==CHAPTER 11==
==CHAPTER 11==
Upon reaching the top of the mountain, Jesus seated them about him while he said:
Upon reaching the top of the mountain, Jesus seated them about him while he said:
*<u>"My brethren, you must all learn the value of rest and the efficacy of '''relaxation'''. You must realize that the best '''method''' of solving some entangled problems is to forsake them for a time.</u> Then when you go back fresh from your rest or worship, you are able to attack your troubles with a clearer head and a steadier hand, not to mention a more resolute heart. Again, many times your problem is found to have shrunk in size and proportions while you have been resting your mind and body."
*<u>"My brethren, you must all learn the value of '''rest''' and the efficacy of '''relaxation'''. You must realize that the best '''method''' of solving some entangled problems is to forsake them for a time.</u> Then when you go back fresh from your rest or worship, you are able to attack your troubles with a clearer head and a steadier hand, not to mention a more resolute heart. Again, many times your problem is found to have shrunk in size and proportions while you have been resting your mind and body."
*“Worship is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect these new spiritual significances back onto the life that now is. Prayer is spiritually sustaining, but worship is divinely creative.
*“Worship is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect these new spiritual significances back onto the life that now is. Prayer is spiritually sustaining, but worship is divinely creative.
*“Worship is the technique of looking to the One for the inspiration of service to the many. Worship is the yardstick which measures the extent of the soul's detachment from the material universe and its simultaneous and secure attachment to the spiritual realities of all creation.
*<u>“'''Worship''' is the technique of looking to the One for the inspiration of service to the many.</u> Worship is the yardstick which measures the extent of the soul's detachment from the material universe and its simultaneous and secure attachment to the spiritual realities of all creation.
*“Prayer is self-reminding -- sublime thinking. Worship is self-forgetting – super-thinking. Worship is effortless attention, true and ideal soul rest, and a form of restful spiritual exertion.
*“Prayer is self-reminding -- sublime thinking. Worship is self-forgetting – super-thinking. Worship is effortless attention, true and ideal soul rest, and a form of restful spiritual exertion.