gradually are
removed and disappear.

Why, in the mere matter of being tired, if we refuse to let the
impression of the fatigue be positive to us, and insist upon being
positive ourselves in giving attention to the fact that now we are
going to rest, we get rested in half the time,--in much less than half
the time. Some people carry chronic fatigue with them because of their
steady attention to fatigue.

"I am tired, yes, but _I am going to get rested!"_ That is the sensible
attitude of mind.

Nature tends toward health. As we realize that and give our attention
to it positively, we come to admire and love the healthy working of the
laws of nature, and to feel the vigor of interest in trying to obey
them intelligently. Nature's laws are God's laws, and God's laws tend
toward the health of the spirit in all matters of the spirit as surely
as they tend toward health of body in all natural things. That is a
truth that as we work to obey we grow to see and to love with deepening
reverence, and then indeed we find that God's laws are all positive,
and that the workings of self are only negative.

CHAPTER XXVIII

_Human Dust_

WHEN we face the matter squarely and give it careful thought, it seems
to appear very plainly that the one thing most flagrantly in the way of
the people of to-day living according to plain common sense--spiritual
common sense as well as material--is the fact that we are all living in
a chronic state of excitement. It is easy to prove this fact by seeing
how soon most of us suffer from ennui when "there is not anything going
on." It seems now as if the average man or woman whom we see would find
it quite impossible to stop and do nothing--for an hour or more. "But,"
some one will say, "why should I stop and do nothing when I am as busy
as I can be all day long, and have my time very happily full?" Or some
one else may say, "How can I stop and do nothing when I am nearly crazy
with work and must feel that it is being accomplished?"

Now the answer to that is, "Certainly you should not stop and do
nothing when you are busy and happily busy;" or, "Although your work
will go better if you do not get 'crazy' about it, there is no need of
interrupting it or delaying it by stopping to do nothing--but _you
should be able to stop and do nothing,_ and to do it quietly and
contentedly at any time when it might be required of you."

No man, woman, or child knows the power, the very great power, f