The Majesty of Calmness

Individual Problems and Possibilities...

by

William George Jordan

Author of "The Kingship of Self-Control"

Contents

  1. [a]The Majesty of Calmness]
  2. [a]Hurry, the Scourge of America]
  3. [a]The Power of Personal Influence]
  4. [a]The Dignity of Self-Reliance]
  5. [a]Failure as a Success]
  6. [a]Doing Our Best at All Times]
  7. [a]The Royal Road to Happiness]

I
The Majesty of Calmness

Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centred, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power,--ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis.

The Sphinx is not a true type of calmness,--petrifaction is not calmness; it is death, the silencing of all the energies; while no one lives his life more fully, more intensely and more consciously than the man who is calm.