CHAPTER XXX.
_A Summing Up_ GIVE up resentment, give up unhealthy resistance.
If circumstances, or persons, arouse either resentment or resistance in us, let us ignore the circumstances or persons until we have quieted ourselves.

Freedom does not come from merely yielding out of resentment or unhealthy resistance, it comes also from the strong and steady focus on such yielding.

_Concentration and relaxation are just as necessary one to another to give stability to the nerves of a man--as the centrifugal and centripetal forces are necessary to give stability to the Earth._ As the habit of healthy concentration and relaxation grows within us, our perception clears so that we see what is right to do, and are given the power to do it.

As our freedom from bondage to our fellowmen becomes established, our relation to our fellowmen grows happier, more penetrating and more full of life, and later we come to understand that at root it is ourselves--our own resentment and resistance--to which we have been in bondage,--circumstances or other people have had _really_ nothing to do with it.

When we have made that discovery, and are steadily acting upon it, we are free indeed, and with this new liberty there grows a clear sense and conviction of a wise, loving Power which, while leaving us our own free will, is always tenderly guiding us.
No one ever really believed anything without experiencing it.