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In Tune with the Infinite

Ralph Waldo Trine

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1. ch. 1, para. 1. E-text prepared by Al Haines
2. "IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE", para. 1. IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE or Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Author of "What
3. "PREFACE.", para. 1. PREFACE. There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world. Ther
4. "PREFACE.", para. 6. To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great laws underlying the wo
5. "CONTENTS.", para. 1. CONTENTS.
6. "I. PRELUDE II. THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE III. THE S", para. 1. I. PRELUDE II. THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE III. THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE I
7. "FULLNESS OF PEACE, POWER, AND PLENTY.", para. 1. FULLNESS OF PEACE, POWER, AND PLENTY.
8. "PRELUDE.", para. 1. PRELUDE. The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the othe
9. "THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE.", para. 1. THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE. The great central fact of the universe is that Spir
10. "THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE.", para. 5. God, then, is this Infinite Spirit which fills all the universe with Himself alone, s
11. "THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE.", para. 7. In regard to the first: if God is the Infinite Spirit of Life behind all, whence all
12. "THE SUPREME FACT OF THE UNIVERSE.", para. 10. And so in the life of man. If, as I think we have already agreed, however we may diff
13. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 1. THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE. From the great central fact of the universe in regard
14. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 5. We can keep closed to this divine inflow, to these higher forces and powers, through
15. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 8. A friend has a beautiful lotus pond. A natural basin on his estate—his farm as he alw
16. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 10. Here one may often find merry groups of children at play. Here many times tired and w
17. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 13. Not long ago our friend was absent for a year. He rented his estate during his absenc
18. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 15. In this do we not see a complete parallel so far as human life is concerned? In the d
19. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 18. Before we proceed farther let us consider very briefly the nature of thought. Thought
20. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 22. The "power of the word" is a literal scientific fact. Through the operation of our th
21. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 25. This law is continually operating whether we are conscious of it or not. We are all l
22. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 28. This he can acquire through the mind's action. And, moreover, there is no habit of mo
23. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 30. "The individual existence of man begins on the sense plane of the physical world, but
24. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 32. There are in the other form, then, mentalities and hence lives of all grades and infl
25. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 36. While riding with a friend a few days ago, we were speaking of the great interest peo
26. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 38. Says one of deep insight into the nature of things: "The law of correspondences betwe
27. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 39. "Every thought of yours has a literal value to you in every possible way. The strengt
28. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 41. We have just spoken of the drawing power of mind. Faith is nothing more nor less than
29. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 45. In a sense there are two kinds of will,—the human and the divine. The human will is t
30. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 48. In the degree, however, that we recognize Him as immanent as well as transcendent, ar
31. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 50. This gives us the inner guiding which we call intuition. "Intuition is to the spiritu
32. "THE SUPREME FACT OF HUMAN LIFE.", para. 51. "On this higher plane of realized spiritual life in the flesh the mind holds the impe
33. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 1. FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR. God is the Spirit of Infinite Life. If we a
34. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 6. Again, a sudden emergency arises. You stand trembling and weak with fear. Why are you
35. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 10. A few weeks later he saw her again. With a light step she came toward him and said: "
36. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 13. Says a noted American author, an able graduate of one of our greatest medical schools
37. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 15. From all this we get the great fact we are scientifically demonstrating today,—that t
38. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 18. "Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body, too.
39. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 20. "Do you mean to say," I hear it asked, "that the body can be changed from a diseased
40. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 21. I am aware of the fact that in connection with the matter we are now considering ther
41. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 24. One may cure another, but to be permanently healed one must do it himself. In this wa
42. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 27. The moment a person realizes his oneness with the Infinite Spirit he recognizes himse
43. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 29. There is a trough through which a stream of muddy water has been flowing for many day
44. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 32. First let it be said, that the very fact of one's holding the thought of perfect heal
45. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 35. Many will receive great help, and many will be entirely healed by a practice somewhat
46. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 37. If there is a local difficulty, and one wants to open this particular portion, in add
47. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 40. And why should we not have the power today, the same as they had it then? Are the law
48. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 43. We, who from our very natures should be masters of all conditions, by virtue of our i
49. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 46. Poor draft! How many thousands, nay millions of times it is made the scapegoat by tho
50. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 48. If we are born to have dominion, and that we are is demonstrated by the fact that som
51. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 50. And then whatever does come to one depends for its effects entirely upon his mental a
52. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 53. "I swear the earth shall surely be complete To him or her who shall be complete; The
53. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 60. "Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived; But wh
54. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 65. Children, and especially when very young, are, generally speaking, more sensitive to
55. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 67. But a day or two ago a friend was telling me of an experience of his own life in this
56. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 69. Fear and worry and all kindred mental states are too expensive for any person, man, w
57. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 72. A close observer, a careful student of the power of the thought forces, will soon be
58. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 75. There comes to mind at this moment a friend, a lady well on to eighty years of age. A
59. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 76. No fears, no worryings, no hatreds, no jealousies, no sorrowings, no grievings, no so
60. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 78. And as good fortune would have it, while still watching her, an old lady passed her,—
61. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 80. Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness and buoyancy of
62. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 83. If the latter is the order of your thought, then perhaps unconsciously and by degrees
63. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 85. "At eighteen or twenty you commenced growing out of the more playful tendency of earl
64. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 88. Full, rich, and abounding health is the normal and the natural condition of life. Any
65. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 92. To dwell upon the negative side is always destructive. This is true of the body the s
66. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 94. "Like produces like the universe through. Hatred, envy, malice, jealousy, and revenge
67. "FULLNESS OF LIFE—BODILY HEALTH AND VIGOR.", para. 98. Then "delight thyself in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
68. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 1. THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE. This is the Spirit of Infinite Love. The mome
69. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 5. And then when we fully realize the fact that selfishness is at the root of all error,
70. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 8. In the degree that we hold a person in the thought of evil or of error, do we suggest
71. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 12. Even animals feel the effects of these forces. Some animals are much more sensitively
72. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 15. This realization so fills us with love that we continually overflow it, and all with
73. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 19. Hatred and all its kindred emotions are the unnatural, the abnormal, the perversions,
74. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 22. "Give love, and love to your heart will flow, A strength in your utmost need; Have fa
75. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 25. The Persian sage has said, "Always meet petulance with gentleness, and perverseness w
76. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 27. Thus you may become his saviour. He in turn may become the saviour of other error-mak
77. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 31. By example and not by precept. By living, not by preaching. By doing, not by professi
78. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 33. Verily, then, the more one loves the nearer he approaches to God, for God is the spir
79. "THE SECRET, POWER, AND EFFECTS OF LOVE.", para. 35. And here let a word be said in regard to true service. Peter and John were one day go
80. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 1. WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION. This is the Spirit of Infinite Wisdom, and in the d
81. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 7. When Moses was on the mountain it was after the various physical commotions and manif
82. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 9. Reason is not to be set aside, but it is to be continually illumined by this higher s
83. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 11. He who would enter into the realm of wisdom must first divest himself of all intellec
84. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 14. This seems indeed an amusing fact; but far more amusing is the man who voluntarily cl
85. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 17. And where truth is denied entrance the rich blessings it carries with it cannot take
86. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 19. In the Eastern literature is a fable of a frog. The frog lived in a well, and out of
87. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 21. With brave and intrepid Walt Whitman, we should all be able to say— "From this hour I
88. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 27. Let us hear the words of one of the most highly illumined men I have ever known, and
89. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 28. "One of the most intuitive men we ever met had a desk in a city office where several
90. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 29. "One condition is imposed by universal law, and this we must obey. Put all wishes asi
91. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 31. No human soul need be without it. When we turn our face in the right direction it com
92. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 33. If one is willing to trust himself fully to the Law, the Law will never fail him. It
93. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 35. Our bodies are given us to serve far higher purposes than we ordinarily use them for.
94. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 38. Sleep, then, is for the resting and the rebuilding of the body. The soul needs no res
95. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 41. A friend, a well-known journalist, had an extended newspaper article clearly and comp
96. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 44. Then by virtue of the law of the drawing power of mind, since the mind is always acti
97. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 46. Then resting in this sense of peace, quietly and calmly send out your earnest desire
98. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 48. Your sleep will be more quiet, and peaceful, and refreshing, and so your power increa
99. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 50. Visions and inspirations of the highest order will come in the degree that we make fo
100. "WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.", para. 51. But why had not Pharaoh the power of interpreting his dreams? Why was Joseph the type