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How Suffering Purifies One! Not exactly a hungry look, more of a yearning look!

Thank heaven, though, I can control it—one should always be the captain of one's soul, shouldn't one?

I hide it at times. Because one must hide one's suffering from the world, mustn't one?

But at other times I let it show.

And, really, with practice, I think I am going to manage it so that I can turn it off and on—if you get what I mean—almost at will.

Because, you know, in certain costumes that look would be quite unbecoming.

Quite out of Harmony. And Inner Beauty only comes through Inner Harmony, doesn't it?

Harmony! Harmony! Oh, to be in accord with the Infinite!

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?"