Self-Development and the Way to Power

by L. W. Rogers

E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project

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SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND THE WAY TO POWER

by

L. W. ROGERS

Price 25 Cents

1922

"We may be either the suffering slaves of nature or the happy masters of her laws."

SELF DEVELOPMENT AND THE WAY TO POWER

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy—to escape all the miseries of life. Happiness is the normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. It is unnatural to suffer and it is only because of our ignorance that we do suffer. Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Perfect wisdom is unshadowed joy.