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72 BYWAYS TO BLESSEDNESS

Happy in the Eternal Happiness is he who has come to that Life from which the thought of self
is abolished. Already, even now and in this life, he has entered the Kingdom of Heaven, Nirvana,
Paradise, the New Jerusalem, the Olympus of Jupiter, the Valhalla of the Gods. He knows the Final
Unity of Life, the Great Reality of which these fleeting and changing names are but feeble
utterances. He is at rest on the bosom of the Infinite.
Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds
and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him,
and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe, in his inmost
heart, the blessing:

Peace unto all living things,

making no exceptions or distinctions — such a man has reached that happy ending which can
never be taken away, for this is the perfection of life, the fulness of peace, the consummation of
perfect blessedness.

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