THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE
Life is too serious to be taken in anything less than a face-to-face way. Life always seems harsh and severe to the one who refuses to face it squarely. Since our purpose is to make life our servant instead of our master, our fundamental premise must be established in the cold, naked truth. This premise is that our outer seen life is an exact duplication of our inner unseen thought life.
Others may deny this principle, argue with it, or ignore it. It does not alter the fact. It operates relentlessly whether we agree or disagree with it. The wise man is he who, seeing a principle begins to cooperate with it. The unwise one evades or runs counter to it and is hurt by it or rather is hurt by his own foolish non-cooperation with that principle.
