In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and PlentyTrine, Ralph Waldo
Religion
In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty
Trine, Ralph Waldo
New Thought
We will find that these same great truths lie at the very bottom of the
solution of our social situation; and we will also find that we will
never have a full and permanent solution of it until they are fully
recognized and built upon.
WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.
This is the Spirit of Infinite Wisdom, and in the degree that we open
ourselves to it does the highest wisdom manifest itself to and through
us. We can in this way go to the very heart of the universe itself and
find the mysteries hidden to the majority of mankind,--hidden to them,
though not hidden of themselves.
In order for the highest wisdom and insight we must have absolute
confidence in the Divine guiding us, but not through the channel of some
one else. And why should we go to another for knowledge and wisdom?
With God is no respect of persons. Why should we seek these things
second hand? Why should we thus stultify our own innate powers? Why
should we not go direct to the Infinite Source itself? "If any man lack
wisdom let him ask of God." "Before they call I will answer, and while
they are yet speaking, I will hear."
When we thus go directly to the Infinite Source itself we are no longer
slaves to personalities, institutions, or books. We should always keep
ourselves open to suggestions of truth from these agencies. We should
always regard them as agencies, however, and never as sources. We should
never recognize them as masters, but simply as teachers. With Browning,
we must recognize the great fact that--
"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness."
There is no more important injunction in all the world, nor one with a
deeper interior meaning, than "To thine own self be true." In other
words, be true to your own soul, for it is through your own soul that the
voice of God speaks to you. This is the interior guide. This is the
light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. This is
conscience. This is intuition. This is the voice of the higher self,
the voice of the soul, the voice of God. "Thou shalt hear a voice behind
thee, saying: This is the way, walk ye in it."
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