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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: the first step gained. I went to bed immediately, and my husband
wished to send for the doctor. But I told him that I would
rather wait until morning and see how I felt. Then followed one
of the most beautiful experiences of my life.
"I cannot express it in any other way than to say that I did 'lie
down in the stream of life and let it flow over me.' I gave up
all fear of any impending disease; I was perfectly willing and
obedient. There was no intellectual effort, or train of thought.
My dominant idea was: 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it
unto me even as thou wilt,' and a perfect confidence that all
would be well, that all WAS well. The creative life was flowing
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