Part 80

3. If completeness is the aim of life, then all lesser happiness is sacrificed to it.

4. If life is a drama, a whole, we give up our selfish satisfaction to see that whole self satisfied.

c. Creation is Self-expression, is endless, higher rebirth:

1. All action reveals the actor.

2. Life is a drama, in which we feel ourselves to have equal prominence with others, and conscious power of control:

α. We cannot help having influence.

β. Let us shape our influence for the whole.

THIRTEENTH MEETING

Self-fulfilment Through Overcoming Limitations

I. ENVY, ITS NARROWNESS AND BLINDNESS:

a. Every man serves me who does for me what I cannot do for myself:

1. Each one fills out my shortcomings.

b. Use, instead of coveting.

II. SELF-REGULATION IN DESPITE OF SELF:

a. The moral sense of beauty, an intellectual sense of completeness, makes us regulate and suppress our desires:

1. Hence we make laws which are substitutes for understanding love.

b. The substitutes necessary until love conquers, are:

1. Justice.

2. Honesty.

3. Duty.

4. Binding by promise.

5. Obedience.

c. Conventions, their changes and their convenience.

III. SOME VIRTUES CHANGED BY LOVE’S DEMANDS:

a. Revenge, the first expression of Loyalty:

1. Our admiration for such expression in its own early time.

b. Pity, the developer of Feeling:

1. Degenerates into Weakness and Impotence.