Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Sympathy must not run riot, or it is valueless and tokens weakness instead of strength. The individual has Sympathy but not Poise, and therefore his life is worthless to himself and to the world.
He symbols inefficiency and not helpfulness. Poise reveals itself more in voice than it does in words; more in thought than in action; more in atmosphere than in conscious life. To allow Sympathy to waste itself on unworthy objects is to deplete one’s life forces.
Poise being the control of our Sympathy and Knowledge, it implies a possession of these attributes, for without having Sympathy and Knowledge you have nothing to control but your physical body. To practise Poise as a mere gymnastic exercise, or study in etiquette, is to be self-conscious, stiff, preposterous and ridiculous.
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