WHAT ALL THE WORLD'S A-SEEKING Or, The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness by RALPH WALDO TRINE New York Dodge Publishing Company 220 East Twenty-Third Street PREFACE. There are two reasons the author has for putting forth this little volume: he feels that the time is, as it always has been, ripe for it; and second, his soul has ever longed to express itself upon this endless theme. It therefore comes from the heart--the basis of his belief that it will reach the heart. R.W.T. Boston, Massachusetts PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION. It is impossible for one in a single volume, or perhaps in a number of volumes, to reach the exact needs of every reader. It is always a source of gratitude, as well as of inspiration for better and more earnest work in the future, for one to know that the truths that have been and that are so valuable and so vital to him he has succeeded in presenting in a manner such that they prove likewise of value to others. The author is most grateful for the good, kind words that have come so generously from so many hundreds of readers of this simple little volume from all parts of the world. He is also grateful to that large company of people who have been so good as to put the book into the hands of so many others. And as the days have passed, he has not been unmindful of the fact that he might make it, when the time came, of still greater value to many. In addition to a general revision of the book, some four or five questions that seemed to be most frequently asked he has endeavored to point answer to in an added part of some thirty pages, under the general title, "Character-building Thought Power." The volume enters therefore upon its fifteenth thousand better able, possibly, to come a little more directly in touch with the every-day needs of those who will be sufficiently interested to read it. R.W.T. Sunnybrae Farm Croton-on-the-Hudson New York CONTENTS. PART I. THE PRINCIPLE PART II. THE APPLICATION PART III. THE UNFOLDMENT PART IV. THE AWAKENING PART V. THE INCOMING PART VI. CHARACTER-BUILDING THOUGHT POWER WHAT ALL THE WORLD'S A-SEEKING. PART I. THE PRINCIPLE 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?