| for work's sake. There are some who are really the | | | | tremendous restraint; self- restraint is a manifestation |
| salt of the earth in every country and who work for | | | | of greater power than all outgoing action. A carriage |
| work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or | | | | with four horses may rush down a hill unrestrained, or |
| even to go to heaven. They work just because good | | | | the coachman may curb the horses. Which is the |
| will come of it. There are others who do good to the | | | | greater manifestation of power, to let them go or to |
| poor and help mankind from still higher motives, | | | | hold them? A cannon - ball flying through the air goes |
| because they believe in doing good and love good. | | | | a long distance and falls. |
| The motive for name and fame seldom brings | | | | Another is cut short in its flight by striking against a wall, |
| immediate results, as a rule; they come to us when we | | | | and the impact generates intense heat. All outgoing |
| are old and have almost done with life. If a man works | | | | energy following a selfish motive is frittered away; it will |
| without any selfish motive in view, does he not gain | | | | not cause power to return to you; but if restrained, it |
| anything? Yes, he gains the highest. | | | | will result in development of power. This self - control |
| Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the | | | | will tend to produce a mighty will, a character which |
| patience to practise it. It is more paying from the point | | | | makes a Christ or a Buddha. Foolish men do not know |
| of view of health also. Love, truth and unselfishness | | | | this secret; they nevertheless want to rule mankind. |
| are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form | | | | Even a fool may rule the whole world if he works and |
| our highest ideal, because in them lies such a | | | | waits. |
| manifestation of power. In the first place, a man who | | | | Let him wait a few years, restrain that foolish idea of |
| can work for five days, or even for five minutes, | | | | governing;and when that idea is wholly gone, he will be |
| without any selfish motive whatever,without thinking of | | | | a power in the world. The majority of us cannot see |
| future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the | | | | beyond a few years, just as some animals cannot see |
| kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful | | | | beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle -- that is |
| moral giant. It is hard to do it, but in the heart of our | | | | our world. We have not the patience to look beyond, |
| hearts we know its value, and the good it brings. It is | | | | and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our |
| the greatest manifestation of power -- this | | | | weakness, our powerlessness. |