They should be portrayed as thrillingly, as entertainingly, as inspiringly as possible. The wider the appeal, the better.

"What needs to be changed is the emphasis, or stress. For example, courage is a great virtue, but it may, if misapplied, become vice. So it is with love, the mainspring of our lives, which may lead to the heights of realization or to the depths of despair. No better example can be given of the polarities of love and their effects than that of Mary Magdalene, before and after meeting Jesus.

“Between these two extremes are many kinds of love all of which are good, but some of which are better than others. I use the terms 'good' and `better' simply to designate the degrees of liberation which they lead to, or confer. Even the love which expresses through physical desire is good to the extent that it frees one from the thralldom of personal likes and dislikes and makes one want to serve the beloved above all things.

"Every human relationship is based on love in one form or another, and endures or dissolves as that love is eternal or temporal in character. Marriage, for example, is happy or unhappy, exalting or degrading, lasting or fleeting, according to the love which inspires and sustains it. Marriages based on sex attraction alone cannot endure; they lead inevitably to divorce or worse. Marriages, on the other hand, which are based on a mutual desire to serve and inspire, grow continually in richness and beauty, and are a benediction to all who know of them.

“To lead men and women to the heights of realization, we must help them to overcome fear and greed, anger and passion. These are the result of looking upon the self as a limited, separate, physical entity, having a definite physical beginning and definite physical end, with interests apart from the rest of life, and needing preservation and protection. The self, in fact, is a limitless, indivisible spiritual essence, eternal in its nature and infinite in its resources. The greatest romance possible in life is to discover this eternal reality in the midst of change. Once one has experienced this, one sees oneself in everything that lives, one recognizes all of life as his life, everybody's interests as his own. The fear of death, the desire for self-preservation, the urge to accumulate substance, the conflict of interests, the anger of thwarted desires, are gone. One is no longer bond by habits of the past, no longer swayed by the hopes of the future. One lives in and enjoys each present moment to the full. There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization. There is no better medium to portray it than the moving pictures.

“Plays which inspire those who see them to greater understanding, truer feeling, better lives, need not necessarily have anything to do with so-called religion. Creed, ritual, dogma, the conventional ideas of heaven and hell and sin,