feel it necessary to
repeat it in many ways. Fear brings resistance, resistance impedes our
progress. Our faculties are paralyzed by lack of confidence, and
confidence is the result of a true consciousness of our powers when in
harmony with law. Often the fear of not accomplishing what is before us
is the _only_ thing that stands in our way.

If we put all hurry, whether it be an immediate hurry to catch a train,
or the hurry of years toward the accomplishment of the main objects of
our lives,--if we put it all under the clear light of this truth, it
will eventually relieve us of a strain which is robbing our vitality to
no end.

First, the times that we _must_ hurry should be minimized. In nine
cases out of ten the necessity for hurry comes only from our own
attitude of mind, and from no real need whatever. In the tenth case we
must learn to hurry with our muscles, and not with our nerves, or, I
might better say, we must hurry without excitement. To hurry quietly is
to most people an unknown thing, but when hurry is a necessity, the
process of successive effort in it should be pleasant and refreshing.

If in the act of needful hurry we are constantly teaching ourselves to
stop resistance by saying over and over, through whatever we may be
doing, "I am perfectly willing to lose that train, I am willing to lose
it, I am willing to lose it," that will help to remove the resistance,
and so help us to learn how to make haste quietly.

But the reader will say, "How can I make myself willing when I am not
willing?"

The answer is that if you know that your unwillingness to lose the
train is preventing you from catching it, you certainly will see the
efficacy of being willing, and you will do all in your power toward
yielding to common sense. Unwillingness is resistance,--resistance in
the mind contracts the muscles, and such contraction prevents our using
the muscles freely and easily. Therefore let us be willing.

Of course there is a lazy, selfish indifference to catching a train, or
accomplishing anything else, which leaves the tendency to hurry out of
some temperaments altogether, but with that kind of a person we are not
dealing now. And such indifference is the absolute opposite of the
wholesome indifference in which there is no touch of laziness or
selfishness.

If we want to avoid hurry we must get the habit of hurry out of our
brains, and cut ourselves off, patiently and kindly, from the
atmosphere of hurry