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thousands of men and women who have worked hard to smooth the passage of life for others. And how far have they succeeded ? We can only play at driving the ball from one place to another We take away pain from the physical plane, and it goes to the mental one. It is like that picture in Dante's hell where the misers were given a mass of gold to roll it up a hill. Every time they rolled it up a little, it again rolled down. All our talks about the millennium are very nice as schoolboy's stories, but they are no better than that. All nations that dream of the millennium also think that, of all peoples in the world, they will have the best of it then for themselves. This is the wonderfully unselfish idea of the millennium!.. - We cannot add , happiness to this world ; similarly, we cannot. add :pain to it either. The -sum total of the energies of pleasure and pain displayed here on earth will be the same through. out. We just push it from this side to the other side, and from that side to this, bat it will remain the same, because so to remain-is its very nature.
