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What men of our modern age, bewildered by tremendous world-wide happenings, crushed by the forces of an apparently uncontrollable destiny, deafened by the noises of a scientifically mechanical civilization, are really yearning after is simply Stillness. This, which would seem to be the simplest of all things, is inwardly the hardest to find of all things. This is what Jesus spoke of when he said, "Few there be that find it." Why is it so hard to find? The answer is that a price must be paid, as with all things. That price is the giving up of self. For Stillness is behind the self.

-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 4 : Seek the Deeper Stillness > # 25