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Prayer Is Commitment. We Don't Merely Co-operate With God With Certain Things Held Back Within. We, The Total Person, Co-operate. This Means That Co-operation Equals Committment.

Jesus Will Meet Me Today In The Person Of Someone In Need-i Must Not Miss Him.

Victorious Living Does Not Mean Freedom From Temptation, Nor Does It Mean Freedom From Mistakes.

A Johns Hopkins Doctor Says That 'we Do Not Know Why It Is That The Worriers Die Sooner Than The Non-worriers, But That Is A Fact.' But I, Who Am Simple Of Mind, Think I Know We Are Inwardly Constructed, In Nerve And Tissue And Brain Cell And Soul, For Faith And Not For Fear. God Made Us That Way. Therefore, The Need Of Faith Is Not Something Imposed On Us Dogmatically, But It Is Written In Us Intrinsically. We Cannot Live Without It. To Live By Worry Is To Live Against Reality.

In Our Ashrams Of East And West, Places Of Spiritual Retreat, We Begin With What We Call "the Morning Of The Open Heart," In Which We Tell Our Needs. . . . We Give Four Or Five Hours To This Catharsis. The Reaction Of One Member, Who Listened To It For The First Time, Was: "good Gracious, Have We All The Disrupted People In The Country Here?" My Reply Was: "no, You Have A Cross Section Of The Church Life Honestly Revealed." In The Ordinary Church, It Is Suppressed By Respectability, By A Desire To A Appear Better Than We Really Are.