I HAVE heretofore referred to a ship under way on the ocean, moving forward and dragging with it its back waters and support. If the wheel was checked for a moment, it would nevertheless be drawn on by the momentum of its own habits, it would be thrown into action and motion by its own law, its own force. But if the wheel would be reversed and turned backward, an onlooker, an observer of this strain and the action of the ship would feel that there was much more against forcing it backward rather than forward: he would observe that to change the course would be difficult, and would always call forth a special energy. A pent up, dammed up force must be called to the rescue of a being who has resolved to change his ways, to change his mind, his habits and actions. All of these temptations and conditions that follow on the trail of a certain course and habit, come on to overcome and crush and force and urge him to the old course. But he knows, when he stops to think a moment, that they are short-lived. He must hold on to his resolution. Hold fast to his ideals. Keep his mind on the upward course. Forget the resistance. He does not need to bother to resist it. He can simply say, "I live onward and forward; this way I have chosen, and I will." And while he is saying this, and while he is persisting in this, talking nothing about resistance, talking nothing about the many things that may come up to make it hard for him to do it, just now he is doing it; he is not talking about it, not trying to get up the courage for it, HE IS IT, and about the time he feels that the strain is about all he can bear he will find it has subsided. He will find it much more profitable to live the course of his own choice than to follow the course of least resistance. It is far easier to harvest from the seeds he has chosen to sow than to take something he thinks he is not responsible for, does not want but will have had forced upon him. He will find that living right or living in the light he has, soon becomes perpetual joy, delight, expectation, anticipation and ultimate bliss to him. Living the life of least resistance never gave him an hour of security or contentment.

Take right here and now the resolution toward the higher and truer, with the mental tenacity and persistence that will carry you over the first resistance. That time over with, life brings in a new joy. At once self-respect and self-confidence begin to increase, hope and expectation begin to arise, mists begin to fade before the sun of your own real and life becomes a joy never known before.