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"What one lives in his invisible, thought world, he is continually actualizing in his visible, material world." --Ralph Waldo Trine
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This Mystical Life of Ours
A book of suggestive thoughts for each week through the yearby Ralph Waldo Trine
Originally Published: 1907
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-------CHAPTERS------- I. The Fresh Beginning II. The Supreme Fact of Human Life III. The Creative power of Thought IV. The Drawing Power of Mind V. Creating One's Own Atmosphere VI. The Law of Attraction Works Unceasingly VII. The Law of Prosperity VIII. The Law of Habit-Forming IX. Actualizing One's Ideals X. Faith and Prayer--Their Nature XI. The Petty Personal and the Larger Universal XII. The Poem Hangs on the Berry-Bush XIII. The Influence of Our Prevailing Mental States Upon Others XIV. Saviors One of Another XV. Not Repression, But Self-Mastery IV. The Drawing Power of Mind XVI. Thoughts Are Forces XVII. All Life From Within XVIII. Heredity and the Higher Power XIX. Castles in the Air XX. The Anchor of the Sensitively Organized XXI. How We Attract Success or Failure XXII. Fear Brings Failure XXIII. Heart Training Through the Animal World XXIV. The Secret and the Power of Love XXV. Then Give to the World the Best You Have, And The Best Will Come Back To You XXVI. Hatred Never Ceases By Hatred, But By Love XXVII. Thought and Its Intelligent Direction XXVIII. Will--The Human and the Divine XXIX. The Secret of the Highest Power XXX. Wisdom: Or Interior Illumination XXXI. Let There Be Many Windows In Your Soul XXXII. As to the Quality of Our Education XXXIII. A New Order of Patriotism XXXIV. Men of Exceptional Exectuive and Financial Ability XXXV. An Example--A Very Young Old Lady XXXVI. How Mind Builds Body XXXVII. Soul Radiance XXXVIII. Intuition: The Voice of the Soul XXXIX. Miracles and the Higher Life XL. The Voice of the Higher Self XLI. The Soul Must Be Made Translucent to the Divine XLII. Receiving Intstruction During Sleep XLIII. The Joseph Type Both Dreams And Interprets XLIV. Humaneness In Our Diet XLV. To Be At Peace XLVI. Courage Begets Strength; Fear Begets Weakness XLVII. "And What Is Mind Shall Know My Face" XLVIII. Heredity and Environment--Are We Bound By Them? XLIX. Preserving One's Individuality L. Exlusiveness and Inclusiveness: What They Indicate LI. The Nature of Real Riches LII. A Method of Attainment
-------EXCERPT-------THE FRESH BEGINNING. When one awakes from sleep and so returns to conscious life, he is in a peculiarly receptive and impressionable state. All relations with the material world have for a time been shut off, the mind is in a freer and more natural state, resem- bling somewhat a sensitive plate, where impressions can readily leave their traces. This is why many times the highest and truest impressions come to one in the early morning hours, before the activities of the day and their attendant distractions have exerted an influence. This is one reason why many ^people can do their best work in the early hours of the day. But this fact is also a most valuable one in con- nection with the moulding of every-day life. The mind is at this time as a clean sheet of paper. We can most valuably use this quiet, receptive, im- pressionable period by wisely directing the activities of the mind along the highest and most desirable paths, and thus, so to speak, set the pace for the day. Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are, as it were, just beginning life. We have it entirely in our own hands. And when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all yesterdays should be yesterdays, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient is it to know that the way we lived our yesterday has determined for us our today. And, again, when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all tomorrows should be tomorrows, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient to know that the way we live our today determines our to- morrow.
"Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new; You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for you, A hope for me and a hope for you. "All the past things are past and over, The tasks are done, and the tears are shed. Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing which night has shed. "Let them go, since we cannot relieve them, Cannot undo and cannot atone. God in His mercy receive, forgive them!- Only the new days are our own. Today is ours, and today alone. "Here are the skies all burnished brightly; Here is the spent earth all reborn ; Here are the tired limbs springing lightly To face the sun and to share with the morn In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn. "Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, And puzzles forecasted, and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again."
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