Ralph Waldo Trine: What All The World`s A-Seeking - eBook

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THE VITAL LAW OF TRUE LIFE,
TRUE GREATNESS, POWER,
AND HAPPINESS
 

Would you find that wonderful life supernal,
That life so abounding, so rich, and so free?
Seek then the laws of the Spirit Eternal,
With them bring your life into harmony.

How can I make life yield its fullest and best? How can I know the true secret of power? How can I attain to a true and lasting greatness? How can I fill the whole of life with a happiness, a peace, a joy, a satisfaction that is ever rich and abiding, that ever increases, never diminishes, that imparts to it a sparkle that never loses its lustre, that ever fascinates, never wearies?

No questions, perhaps, in this form or in that have been asked oftener than these. Millions in the past have asked them. Millions are asking them today. They will be asked by millions yet unborn. Is there an answer, a true and safe one for the millions who are eagerly and longingly seeking for it in all parts of the world to-day, and for the millions yet unborn who will as eagerly strive to find it as the years come and go? Are you interested, my dear reader, in the answer? The fact that you have read even thus far in this little volume whose title has led you to take it up, indicates that you are,  that you are but one of the innumerable company already mentioned.

Each a building his world from within: thought is the builder, for thoughts are forces, subtle, vital, irresistible, omnipotent, and according as used do they bring power or impotence, peace or pain, success or failure.

This short eBook by Ralph Waldo Trine stands out in the huge body of New Thought literature for several reasons. First of all, he uses the phrase ‘A Science of Mind‘ nearly two decades before the Ernest Holmes book of the same title. Second, and much more importantly, is the stress he places on service and compassion, not only to humanity, but to also animals, in fact, all sentient or conscious beings. This, of course, echoes Buddhist sentiments. It also addresses one objection which often comes up in discussions of New Thought: if we create the universe with our own minds, why should we care about others? Trine clearly states that an ability to care for others is central to being able to access one’s inner power. Lastly, he says plainly that the best way to achieve this is by ‘silence.’ Where others waltz around the issue of how to develop mental powers, Trine offers a powerful and simple technique to do so, what we today call meditation.

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