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
All things that it is valuable for us to know will come to us if we will
but open ourselves to the voice of this Infinite Spirit. It is thus that
we become seers and have the power of seeing into the very heart of
things. There are no new stars, there are no new laws or forces, but we
can so open ourselves to this Spirit of Infinite Wisdom that we can
discover and recognize those that have not been known before; and in this
way they become new to us. When in this way we come into a knowledge of
truth we no longer need facts that are continually changing. We can then
enter into the quiet of our own interior selves. We can open the window
and look out, and thus gather the facts as we choose. This is true
wisdom. "Wisdom is the knowledge of God." Wisdom comes by intuition.
It far transcends knowledge. Great knowledge, knowledge of many things,
may be had by virtue simply of a very retentive memory. It comes by
tuition. But wisdom far transcends knowledge, in that knowledge is a
mere incident of this deeper wisdom.
He who would enter into the realm of wisdom must first divest himself of
all intellectual pride. He must become as a little child. Prejudices,
preconceived opinions and beliefs always stand in the way of true wisdom.
Conceited opinions are always suicidal in their influences. They bar the
door to the entrance of truth.
All about us we see men in the religious world, in the world of science,
in the political, in the social world, who through intellectual pride are
so wrapped in their own conceits and prejudices that larger and later
revelations of truth can find no entrance to them; and instead of growing
and expanding, they are becoming dwarfed and stunted, and still more
incapable of receiving truth. Instead of actively aiding in the progress
of the world, they are as so many dead sticks in the way that would
retard the wheels of progress. This, however, they can never do. Such
always in time get bruised, broken, and left behind, while God's
triumphal car of truth moves steadily onward.
When the steam engine was still being experimented with, and before it
was perfected sufficiently to come into practical use, a well-known
Englishman--well known then in scientific circles--wrote an extended
pamphlet proving that it would be impossible for it ever to be used in
ocean navigation, that is, in a trip involving the crossing of the ocean,
because it would be utterly impossible for any vessel to carry with it
sufficient coal for the use of its furnace. And the interesting feature
of the whole matter was that the very first steam vessel that made the
trip from England to America, had among its cargo a part of the first
edition of this carefully prepared pamphlet. There was only the one
edition. Many editions might be sold now.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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