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that by its warmth and rhythmic beating he would know the presence of the love for which he longed; and the cowardly lion wanted courage to face his fears, to meet any form of darkness with what it takes to defeat it. By the end of the story, largely as a result of what they go through because of their love for Dorothy, each makes this glad discovery: the very quality of character for which they had gone out searching was already living within them!
Even so we have forgotten that our true nature cannot be made a captive of any dark condition any more than a sunbeam can be caught and held in a bottle. Our True Self is Union with Master itself, in every meaning of the word, because Master by His very presence in our heart as divine light fulfils and liberates all that He touches. If we have the determination we will not mind all the voices that no doubt we hear shouting at us when we decide to be with the Master consciously. That which is dark does go gently through being made new and bright. So there is hard work involved. But the Light we realize
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