Ok, Walter was asked a lot of questions thru his home school. A bunch about why some are successful and others not. This is SOME material from lesson #6

QUESTION. "You say that what is mine will come to me. It does not seem to. I am a salesman. I work harder and many more hours than other salesmen and barely fill my quota while others work much less and double their quotas. My wife has to work to help out while the wives of others selling the same things have servants and good clothes. Could you explain your success by giving some personal examples which apply to your principles?"

ANSWER. The great deterrent to happiness, peace and prosperity which every man is seeking is the still remaining influence of the jungle which is man's inheritance and is foremost in his memory.

The keynote of man's primate existence was SELF-PRESERVATION. The method he made use of to insure self-preservation was to take anything he wanted from other men for himself. The whole keynote of man's past ages has been SELF--the individual SELF. His whole desire was for SELF alone, and still is.

The whole keynote of Cosmic Man of future ages is THE UNIVERSAL SELF, which means a full realization of the brotherhood of man--AS ONE--and of unity with God--AS ONE. Man must now learn that he must lose his own Self in order to find the Universal Self. (Candace: this does NOT mean you give up your personality, it is a statement about service to others, rather than so much service to self.)

The basis of Cosmic Man's desire is to GIVE of himself for the Universal Self. In him the individual SELF is lost in the desire to give service for the whole of mankind to the exclusion of Self,--to utter forgetfulness of Self. (Candace: I do utterly forget myself in these long hours of service. to the point I forget to shower, eat... until the body rises up significantly enough to remind me of its needs.)

In the above you find my answer, in principle, to all of the questions asked regarding personal success. Now let us take this principle apart and analyze it. Let us show how it works by example and analogy. Let me thus show you how it worked for me, for my whole policy of life has been based upon selfless service for the universal Self as a whole and it has worked for me just as it works for all others in the measure in which they place service to all men before service to Self.