Resolution is the directing and impelling force in individual
progress. Without it no substantial work can be accomplished.
Not until a man brings resolution to bear upon his life does
he consciously and rapidly develop, for a life without
resolution is a life without aims, and a life without aims is
a drifting and unstable thing. Resolution may of course be
linked to downward tendencies, but it is more usually the
companion of noble aims and lofty ideals, and I am dealing
with it in this its highest use and application. When a man
makes a resolution, it means that he is dissatisfied with his
condition, and is commencing to take himself in hand with a
view to producing a better piece of workmanship out of the
mental materials of which his character and life are composed,
and in so far as he is true to his resolution he will succeed
in accomplishing his purpose.
The vows of the saintly once are holy resolutions directed
toward some victory over self, and the beautiful achievements
of holy men and the glorious conquests of the Divine Teachers
were rendered possible and actual by the pursuit of unswerving
resolution.
To arrive at the fixed determination to walk a higher path than
heretofore, although it reveals the great difficulties which
have to be surmounted, it yet makes possible the treading of
that path, and illuminates its dark places with the golden halo
of success.
The true resolution is the crisis of long thought, protracted
struggle, or fervent but unsatisfied aspiration. It is no light
thing, no whimsical impulse or vague desire, but a solemn and
irrevocable determination not to rest nor cease from effort
until the high purpose which is held in view is fully
accomplished.
Half-hearted and premature resolution is no resolution at all,
and is shattered at the first difficulty. A man should be slow
to form a resolution. He should searchingly examine his position
and take into consideration every circumstance and difficulty
connected with his decision, and should be fully prepared to meet
them. He should be sure that he completely understands the nature
of his resolution, that his mind is finally made up, and that he
is without fear and doubt in the matter. With the mind thus
prepared, the resolution that is formed will not be departed from,
and by the aid of it a man will, in due time, accomplish his
strong purpose.
Hasty resolutions are futile. The mind must be fortified to endure.
Immediately the resolution to walk a higher path is made,
temptation and trial begin. Men have found that no sooner have
they decided to lead a truer and nobler life than they have been
overwhelmed with such a torrent of new temptations and difficulties
as make their position almost unendurable, and many men, because
of this, relinquish their resolution.
He whose life is not in harmony with his conscience and who is
anxious to remedy his mind and conduct in a particular direction,
let him first mature his purpose by earnest thought and self-
examination, and having arrived at a final conclusion, let him
frame his resolution, and having done so let him not swerve from
it, let him remain true to his decision under all circumstances,
and he cannot fail to achieve his good purpose; for the Great Law
ever shields and protects him who, no matter how deep his sins, or
how great and many his failures and mistakes, has, deep in his
heart, resolved upon the finding of a better way, and every
obstacle must at last give way before a matured and unshaken
resolution.
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