Show the old settler 11 written from salt lake city my dear san Jua ners it makes a dickens of a lot of difference what people think in fact about all the difference th e changes in everything that counts are chargeable for their beginnings to ahe the directions chosen by faltering forces in the matrix of the human brain what men think does not mean the vagrant thu thoughts ats that drift into their minds and out again to come no more but it means the deeply deehl rutted highways through h the worlds of co consciousness these letters to my friends in san juan are invitations to 10 walk with me over the beaten paths that I 1 have blazed beyond what I 1 found as a frontier bep because ause th these se are my paths and because I 1 have found pleasure in following them I 1 conclude they would be good god for others I 1 know these invitations of mine are a mark of presumption for I 1 have many friends and acquaintances who urge me to walk with them over the highways of their thought and often if I 1 am induced to go I 1 am wearied to death because their highways take we me to nothing new and lead to n no profitable destination but they do reveal to me a lot of flimsy foundations and I 1 see the futility of fond hopes which those foundations are supposed to support Thought ways like roadways are valuable only as they lead us to places we want to reach bu but t whether or not they lead us to the ports of our desire they always lead us to something though it be nothing better than the stagnation resulting from traveling in a circle in what direction are you thinking does your road run in a zigzag zig zag circle or straight ahead if straight ahead how far can you follow it before it reaches a terminal and will that terminal be a delight or a disaster are your thoughts constructive or are they in the nature of dissipation pampering the present but imper ailing the future the mighty changes for good or for evil in the affairs of nations and in the affairs of individuals individual vi S are but the cumulus of the seemingly insignificant choice of direction which was made as men blazed their way on the frontier of thought As a man think eth in his heart so is he ALBERT R LYMAN |