Firestorm

And I hope that this record will be as helpful to you as it has been to me and my many friends who have heard my lectures for the past few years. I know that if you will apply this thought to yourself you too can prove this. The eternal search of all mankind throughout the ages has been to obtain with ease the most valuable of possessions - the unfluttered and poised approach to life. A successful business, abundant material resources, positions in society, although they have their place are not the answer to the search.
What is poise? And what can we do as individuals to obtain this valuable possession? To those who have lifted their horizon of thought , to recognise poise as an inner quality, the search is proving to be most enlightening and rewarding for they are becominng aware that poise is that piece of mind that is not external to them but is a present possession. Poise is a state of self-knowledge, a sense of well-being.
It is demeanouring and supurb self-appreciation. It is a self assured, quiet and confident approach to any situation that offers success as its reward. Peace as its companion, ambition without arrogance and motives without deception. An honest purpose is always at peace with itself. Poise demands discipline and poise has its commandments. Let us consider together what I believe to be the ten commandments of poise, and how we shall proceed to learn and obey them. Number One - understand the meaning of self-appreciation. Number two - develop your potential. Number three - do not make comparisions. Number four - do not personalise qualities. Qualities are not personal possessions. Number five - improve thought patterns. Number six - use outward gestures as an index to character. Number seven - do not sale yourself short. Number eight - be sincere. Number nine - create in the minds of the people the impression you want them to have of you every moment of every day. Number ten - learn to apprecate your true selfhood, thereby learn to love your fellow man. Would we be able to see in another what we have failed to recognise in ourselves? Self knowledge through self-appreciation enables us to know our fellow man. Refusal to think ourselves complete and yet seem to see that completeness in another is an exaggerated false concept.