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
If one hold himself in the thought of poverty, he will be poor, and the
chances are that he will remain in poverty. If he hold himself,
whatever present conditions may be, continually in the thought of
prosperity, he sets into operation forces that will sooner or later
bring him into prosperous conditions. The law of attraction works
unceasingly throughout the universe, and the one great and never
changing fact in connection with it is, as we have found, that like
attracts like. If we are one with this Infinite Power, this source of
all things, then in the degree that we live in the realization of this
oneness, in that degree do we actualize in ourselves a power that will
bring to us an abundance of all things that it is desirable for us to
have. In this way we come into possession of a power whereby we can
actualize at all times those conditions that we desire.
As all truth exists _now_, and awaits simply our perception of it, so
all things necessary for present needs exist _now_, and await simply
the power in us to appropriate them. God holds all things in His
hands. His constant word is, My child, acknowledge me in all your
ways, and in the degree that you do this, in the degree that you live
this, then what is mine is yours. Jehovah-jireh,--the Lord will
provide. "He giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not." He
giveth liberally to all men who put themselves in the right attitude to
receive from Him. He forces no good things upon any one.
The old and somewhat prevalent idea of godliness and poverty has
absolutely no basis for its existence, and the sooner we get away from
it the better. It had its birth in the same way that the idea of
asceticism came into existence, when the idea prevailed that there was
necessarily a warfare between the flesh and the spirit. It had its
origin therefore in the minds of those who had a distorted, a one-sided
view of life. True godliness is in a sense the same as true wisdom.
The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with
which he is endowed, to him the great universe always opens her
treasure house. The supply is always equal to the demand,--equal to
the demand when the demand is rightly, wisely made. When one comes
into the realization of these higher laws, then the fear of want ceases
to tyrannize over him.
Are you out of a situation? Let the fear that you will not get another
take hold of and _dominate_ you, and the chances are that it may be a
long time before you will get another, or the one that you do get may
be a very poor one indeed. Whatever the circumstances, you must
realize that you have within you forces and powers that you can set
into operation that will triumph over any and all apparent or temporary
losses. Set these forces into operation and you will then be placing a
magnet that will draw to you a situation that may be far better than
the one you have lost, and the time may soon come when you will be even
thankful that you lost the old one.
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