The personal atmosphere: ten studies in poise and power
This little book is a reprint of a chapter bearing the same title which appeared in the first edition of “Power of Will.” The chapter seemed a trifle out of place and was omitted from the second edition of that work. It is now given separate existence.
Revision of its pages brought out from all directions a mass of suggestions and new material which might have swollen the volume to a much larger form. The original purpose of a small book, however, prevailed, and the ten studies were restricted to the present limit.
The older writing has become almost “a new creature The love of creation determined thus much. Particularly has the subject enlarged in the ninth and tenth studies.
These are especially commended to seekers after the richest conscious life. It is believed that the new form of the page-matter and the division into studies will prove helpful. I have the faith to believe that I am doing work that is really worthwhile. any declarations of practical values derived by patrons from the use of the Power-Book Library deepen that conviction.
Man is a person exhibiting in the body. The exhibit is in the part body itself, in part ‘‘conscious mind ” — by which is to be understood the entire sum-total of personal activities within the body that are not involved in automatic physiological processes. All the activities are of the self, but the self is a deeper reality than either the body or the mind. The mind is not the self; the self is active in various
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