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Happiness and joy take origin in the inner life. You cannot experience real joy all by yourself. A [[solitary]] life is fatal to happiness. Even families and nations will enjoy life more if they share it with others.
 
Happiness and joy take origin in the inner life. You cannot experience real joy all by yourself. A [[solitary]] life is fatal to happiness. Even families and nations will enjoy life more if they share it with others.
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You cannot completely control the external world--[[environment]]. It is the creativity of the inner world that is most subject to your direction because there your personality is so largely liberated from the fetters of the laws of antecedent [[causation]]. There is associated with personality a limited sovereignty of [[will]].
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You cannot completely control the external world--[[environment]]. It is the creativity of the inner world that is most subject to your direction because there your personality is so largely liberated from the fetters of the laws of antecedent [[causation]]. There is associated with personality a limited sovereignty of [[free will|will]].
    
Since this inner life of man is truly creative, there rests upon each person the responsibility of choosing as to whether this [[creativity]] shall be spontaneous and wholly haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive. How can a creative [[imagination]] produce worthy children when the stage whereon it functions is already preoccupied by prejudice, hate, fears, resentments, revenge, and bigotries?
 
Since this inner life of man is truly creative, there rests upon each person the responsibility of choosing as to whether this [[creativity]] shall be spontaneous and wholly haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive. How can a creative [[imagination]] produce worthy children when the stage whereon it functions is already preoccupied by prejudice, hate, fears, resentments, revenge, and bigotries?

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