Part 79

4. Must have variety and many-sidedness.

5. Must not be partisan, and must be sympathetic.

6. Must give the impression of truth.

7. Must be aloof, that is, separate from life, and see things, as it were, from a distance, in their wholeness.

V. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION:

a. Each smallest thing can symbolize the whole:

1. Each human life is a symbol of the complete Self, in a definite shape.

2. Each is deserving of reverence:

α. Reverence is the small self awed before its own vastness.

TWELFTH MEETING

What is Goodness?

I. EACH LIFE, TO BE GOOD OR BEAUTIFUL, MUST BE A SYMBOL OF THAT PERFECT OR COMPLETE LIFE FOR WHICH WE LONG:

a. Life—the symbol of complete Self in a definite shape.

b. The good man makes all he knows and touches a complete, harmonious whole:

1. Goodness is always of relation.

2. One cannot be perfect till all are so:

α. Therefore goodness implies modesty.

II. FALSE AND TRUE GOOD:

a. The one law of Love, and its petty, changing codes:

1. True good of changing harmonious relation.

2. False good of outworn custom and rule.

III. THE MEANING OF SELF-EXPRESSION:

a. The small and large Self:

1. The whole world is the whole of me.

2. Serve, not others only, but others as part of yourself.

b. Self-sacrifice:

1. Giving up one thing for a greater thing.

2. Happiness is whatever we want most.