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The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

CHAPTER VI
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Let us put number three first: "ever seeking and finding the Eternal." Conceive, at least, that we do this really, and in a practical way.

Then we discover that, placed as we certainly are in a world of succession, most of the seeking and finding has got to be done there; that the times of pure abstraction in which we touch the non-successive and supersensual must be few.

Hence it follows that the first and second demands are at once fully met; for, if we are indeed faithfully seeking and finding the Eternal whilst living--as all sane men and women must do--in closest contact with the Particular and Fleeting, our acceptances and our renunciations will be governed by this higher term of experience.

And further, the transcendent Otherness, perpetually envisaged by us as alone giving the world of sense its beauty, reality and value, will be incarnated and expressed by us in this sense-life, and thus ever more completely tasted and known.

It will be drawn by us, as best we can, and often at the cost of bitter struggle, into the limitations of humanity; entincturing our attitude and our actions.


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