Ralph Waldo Trine: “in Tune with the Infinite”
FULLNESS of PEACE, POWER & PLENTY
Thomas A. Crowell & co. New York 1897 One hundred & thirteen thousand
“Ralph Waldo Trine (1886-1958) was a philosopher, mystic, teacher and author of many books and was one of the early mentors of the New Thought movement. His writings had a great influence on many of his contemporaries including Ernest Holmes founder of Religious Science. He was a true pioneer in the area of life-transforming thought. No other New thought author has sold more books than he — his writings reaching far beyond New Thought circles out to the general public which has bought and read Trine’s books without ever knowing that they were New Thought.”
From “In Tune with the Infinite”: The moment we fully and vitally realize who and what we are we can then begin to build our own World even as God builds his.
Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life.To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.
The mind acting intently along a particular line will continue so to act until some other object of thought carries it along another line. And since in sleep only the body is in quiet while the mind and soul are active , then the mind given a certain direction when one drops off to sleep , will take up the line along which it is directed, and can be made in time to bring over into consciousness the results of its activities. Some will be able very soon to get results of this kind; for some it will take longer. Quiet and continued effort will increase the faculty.
Your sleep will be more quiet, peaceful & refreshing & so your power increased mentally, physically & spiritually simply by sending out as you fall asleep thoughts of love and good-will, thoughts of peace and harmony for all. In this way you are connecting yourself with all the forces in the universe that make for peace and harmony.
Walt Whitman: From this hourI ordain myself loos’d of limits & imaginary lines,
Going where I list — my own master total and absolute,
Listening to others — considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will divesting myself of the holds
that would hold me.
Carl Jung: The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Until you make the unconscious conscious — i
t will direct your life & you will call it fate.
We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.
Thinking is difficult — that’s why most people judge.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Aldous Huxley guides us through his developing theory that the brain acts primarily as a “reducing valve” — not producing consciously but limiting it, filtering the overwhelming “mind at large” down to the trickle of awareness necessary for biological survival.