Byways to Blessedness

This is the extended edition including an essay called "James Allen: A prophet Of Meditation". Along the highways of Burma there is placed, at regular distances away from the dust of the road, and under the cool shade of a group of trees, a small wooden building called a "rest-house", where the weary traveller may rest a while, and allay his thirst and assuage his hunger and fatigue by partaking of the food and water which the kindly inhabitants place there as a religious duty. Along the great highway of life there are such resting places; away from the heat of passion and the dust of disappointment, under the cool and refreshing shade of lowly Wisdom, are the humble, unimposing "rest-houses" of peace, and the little, almost unnoticed, byways of blessedness, where alone the weary and footsore can find strength and healing. Contents:Foreword1. Right Beginnings2. Small Tasks and Duties3. Transcending Difficulties and Perplexities4. Burden-Dropping5. Hidden Sacrifices6. Sympathy7. Forgiveness8. Seeing No Evil9. Abiding Joy10. Silentness11. Solitude12. Standing Alone13. Understanding the Simple Laws of Life14. Happy Endings