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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Thoughts I Met on the Highway + +Author: Ralph Waldo Trine + +Release Date: May 15, 2006 [EBook #18392] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOUGHTS I MET ON THE HIGHWAY *** + + + + +Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +Thoughts I Met On the Highway + +Words Of Friendly Cheer +From "The Life Books" + +By +Ralph Waldo Trine + +New York +Dodd, Mead & Company +1919 + +Copyright 1912 +By Ralph Waldo Trine + + * * * * * + +BY RALPH WALDO TRINE + +"The Life Books" + +IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND +THE NEW ALINEMENT OF LIFE +THE LAND OF LIVING MEN +WHAT ALL THE WORLD'S A-SEEKING +IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE; + or Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty +THE HIGHER POWERS OF MIND AND SPIRIT. +THIS MYSTICAL LIFE OF OURS + A volume of selections for each week through the year, + from the Author's complete works. + +The "Life" Booklets + +ON THE OPEN ROAD +THOUGHTS I MET ON THE HIGHWAY +THE WINNING OF THE BEST +THE GREATEST THING EVER KNOWN +EVERY LIVING CREATURE +CHARACTER-BUILDING THOUGHT POWER + +DODD, MEAD & COMPANY +NEW YORK + + * * * * * + +Thoughts are forces--like builds like and like attracts like. Thoughts +of strength both build strength from within and attract it from without. +Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness from within and attract it from +without. Courage begets strength, fear begets weakness. And so courage +begets success, fear begets failure. + + * * * * * + + Any way the old world goes + Happy be the weather! + With the red thorn or the rose + Singin' all together! + Don't you see that sky o' blue! + Good Lord painted it for you + + Reap the daisies in the dew + Singin' all together! + Springtime sweet, an' frosty fall + Happy be the weather! + Earth has gardens for us all, + Goin' on together. + + Sweet the labor in the light, + To the harvest's gold and white-- + Till the toilers say "Good night," + Singin' all together! + + * * * * * + +There is no quality that exerts more good, is of greater service to all +mankind during the course of the ordinary life, than the mind and the +heart that goes out in an all-embracing love for all, that is the +generator and the circulator of a genuine, hearty, wholesome sympathy +and courage and good cheer, that is not disturbed or upset by the +passing occurrence little or great, but that is serene, tranquil, and +conquering to the end, that is looking for the best, that is finding the +best, and that is inspiring the best in all. There is moreover, no +quality that when genuine brings such rich returns to its possessor by +virtue of the thoughts and the feelings that it inspires and calls forth +from others and that come back laden with their peaceful, stimulating, +healthful influences for you. + + * * * * * + + Out of the night that covers me, + Black as the Pit from pole to pole, + I thank whatever gods may be + For my unconquerable soul. + + In the fell clutch of circumstance + I have not winced nor cried aloud. + Under the bludgeoning of chance + My head is bloody, but unbowed. + + Beyond this place of wrath and tears + Looms but the horror of the shade, + And yet the menace of the years + Finds and shall find me, unafraid. + + It matters not how strait the gate + How charged with punishment the scroll, + I am the master of my fate; + I am the captain of my soul. + + _William Earnest Henley_ + + * * * * * + +Thought is the great builder in human life: it is the determining +factor. Continually think thoughts that are good, and your life will +show forth in goodness, and your body in health and beauty. Continually +think evil thoughts, and your life will show forth in evil, and your +body in weakness and repulsiveness. Think thoughts of love, and you will +love and will be loved. Think thoughts of hatred, and you will hate and +will be hated. Each follows its kind. + + * * * * * + + Every day is a fresh beginning, + Every morning 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. + + 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. + + * * * * * + +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 tomorrow. + +Simply the first hour of this new day, with all its richness and glory, +with all its sublime and eternity-determining possibilities, and each +succeeding hour as it comes, but _not before_ it comes--this is the +secret of character building. This simple method will bring any one to +the realization of the highest life that can be even conceived of, and +there is nothing in this connection that can be conceived of that cannot +be realized somehow, somewhen, somewhere. + + * * * * * + + The poem hangs on the berry-bush + When comes the poet's eye, + And the whole street is a masquerade + When Shakespeare passes by. + + * * * * * + +This same Shakespeare, whose mere passing causes all this commotion, is +the one who put into the mouth of one of his creations the words: "The +fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are +underlings." And again he gave us a great truth when he said: + + "Our doubts are traitors, + And make us lose the good we oft might win + By fearing to attempt." + +There is probably no agent that brings us more undesirable conditions +than fear. We should live in fear of nothing, nor will we when we come +fully to know ourselves. An old French proverb runs: + + "Some of your griefs you have cured, + And the sharpest you still have survived; + But what torments of pain you endured + From evils that never arrived." + +Fear and lack of faith go hand in hand. The one is born of the other. +Tell me how much one is given to fear, and I will tell you how much he +lacks in faith. Fear is a most expensive guest to entertain, the same as +worry is: so expensive are they that no one can afford to entertain +them. We invite what we fear, the same as, by a different attitude of +mind, we invite and attract the influences and conditions we desire. + + * * * * * + +To remain in nature always sweet and simple and humble, and therefore +strong. + + "Whatever the weather may be," says he, + "Whatever the weather may be, + It's the songs ye sing, an' the smiles ye wear, + That's a-makin' the sun shine everywhere." + + _James Whitcomb Riley_ + + * * * * * + +Sweetness of nature, simplicity in manners and conduct, humility without +self-abasement, give the truly kingly quality to men, the queenly to +women, the winning to children, whatever the rank or the station may be. +The life dominated by this characteristic, or rather these closely +allied characteristics, is a natural well-spring of joy to itself and +sheds a continual benediction upon all who come within the scope of its +influence. It makes for a life of great beauty in itself, and it imparts +courage and hope and buoyancy to all others. + + * * * * * + + There is no thing we cannot overcome; + Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, + Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn; + And calls down punishment that is not merited. + + Back of thy parents and grandparents lies + The Great Eternal Will! That too is thine + Inheritance,--strong, beautiful, divine, + Sure lever of success for one who tries. + + Earth has no claim the soul cannot contest; + Know thyself part of the Eternal Source; + Naught can stand before thy spirit's force: + The soul's Divine Inheritance is best. + + * * * * * + +Thought is at the bottom of all progress or retrogression, of all +success or failure, of all that is desirable or undesirable in human +life. The type of thought we entertain both creates and draws conditions +that crystallize about it, conditions exactly the same in nature as is +the thought that gives them form. Thoughts are forces, and each creates +of its kind, whether we realize it or not. The great law of the drawing +power of the mind, which says that like creates like, and that like +attracts like, is continually working in every human life, for it is one +of the great immutable laws of the universe. For one to take time to see +clearly the things one would attain to, and then to hold that ideal +steadily and continually before his mind, never allowing faith--his +positive thought-forces--to give way to or to be neutralized by doubts +and fears, and then to set about doing each day what his hands find to +do, never complaining, but spending the time that he would otherwise +spend in complaint in focusing his thought-forces upon the ideal that +his mind has built, will sooner or later bring about the full +materialization of that for which he sets out. + + * * * * * + + Beauty seen is never lost, + God's colors all are fast; + The glory of this sunset heaven + Into my soul has passed,-- + A sense of gladness unconfined + To mortal, date or clime; + As the soul liveth, it shall live + Beyond the years of time. + Beside the mystic asphodels + Shall bloom the home-born flowers, + And new horizons flush and glow + With sunset hues of ours. + + _Whittier_ + + * * * * * + +Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness +and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years? Then have care concerning +but one thing,--how you live in your thought world. It was the inspired +one, Gautama, the Buddha, who said,--"The mind is everything; what you +think you become." And the same thing had Ruskin in mind when he +said,--"Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us as yet +know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces +we may build of beautiful thought--_proof against all adversity_." And +would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength, all +the beauty of your younger years? Then live these in your mind, making +no room for unclean thought, and you will externalize them in your body. +In the degree that you keep young in thought will you remain young in +body. And you will find that your body will in turn aid your mind, for +body helps mind the same as mind helps body. + + * * * * * + + There is a sacred Something on all ways-- + Something that watches through the Universe; + One that remembers, reckons and repays, + Giving us love for love, and curse for curse. + + _Edwin Markham_ + + * * * * * + +The power of every life, the very life itself, is determined by what it +relates itself to. God is immanent as well as transcendent. He is +creating, working, ruling in the universe today, in your life and in +mine, just as much as He ever has been. We are too apt to regard Him +after the manner of an absentee landlord, one who has set in operation +the forces of this great universe, and then taken Himself away. + +In the degree, however, that we recognize Him as immanent as well as +transcendent, are we able to partake of His life and power. For in the +degree that we recognize Him as the Infinite Spirit of Life and Power +that is today, at this very moment, working and manifesting in and +through all, and then, in the degree that we come into the realization +of our oneness with this life, do we become partakers of, and so do we +actualize in ourselves the qualities of his life. In the degree that we +open ourselves to the inflowing tide of this immanent and transcendent +life, do we make ourselves channels through which the Infinite +Intelligence and Power can work. + + * * * * * + + The robber is robbed by his riches; + The tyrant is dragged by his chain; + The schemer is snared by his cunning, + The slayer lies dead by the slain. + + _Edwin Markham_ + + * * * * * + +This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not +cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for +better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this +attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and +irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form +that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and +ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that +actualize material conditions. + +Never give a moment to complaint, but utilize the time that would +otherwise be spent in this way in looking forward and actualizing the +conditions you desire. Suggest prosperity to yourself. See yourself in a +prosperous condition. Affirm that you will before long be in a +prosperous condition. Affirm it calmly and quietly, but strongly and +confidently. Believe it, believe it absolutely. Expect it,--keep it +continually watered with expectation. You thus make yourself a magnet to +attract the things that you desire. Don't be afraid to suggest. + + * * * * * + + They might not need me--yet they might, + I'll let my heart be just in sight. + A smile so small as mine might be + Precisely their necessity. + + _Emily Dickinson_ + + * * * * * + +The grander natures and the more thoughtful are always looking for and +in conversation dwelling on the better things in others. It is the rule +with but few, if any exceptions, that the more noble and worthy and +thoughtful the nature, the more it is continually looking for the best +there is to be found in every life. Instead of judging or condemning, or +acquiring the habit that eventually leads to this, it is looking more +closely to and giving its time to living more worthily itself. + +It is in this way continually unfolding and expanding in beauty and in +power; it is finding an ever-increasing happiness by the admiration and +the love that such a life is always, even though all unconsciously, +calling to itself from all sources. It is the life that pays by many +fold. + + * * * * * + + We just shake hands at meeting + With many that come nigh + We nod the head in greeting + To many that go by-- + + But welcome through the gateway + Our few old friends and true; + Then hearts leap up, and straightway + There's open house for you. + Old friends. + There's open house for you! + + _Gerald Massey_ + + * * * * * + +Many times the struggles are greater than we can ever know. We need more +gentleness and sympathy and compassion in our common human life. Then we +will neither blame nor condemn. Instead of blaming or condemning we will +sympathize. + + "Comfort one another. + For the way is often dreary + And the feet are often weary, + And the heart is very sad. + There is a heavy burden bearing, + When it seems that none are caring, + And we half forget that ever we were glad. + + "Comfort one another + With the hand-clasp close and tender. + With the sweetness love can render, + And the looks of friendly eyes. + Do not wait with grace unspoken, + While life's daily bread is broken-- + Gentle speech is oft like manna from the skies." + +And then when we fully realize the fact that selfishness is at the root +of all error, sin, and crime, and that ignorance is the basis of all +selfishness, with what charity we come to look upon the acts of all. It +is the ignorant man who seeks his own ends at the expense of the greater +whole. It is the ignorant man, therefore, who is the selfish man. + + * * * * * + +To get up immediately when we stumble, face again to the light, and +travel on without wasting even a moment in regret. + + * * * * * + +We are on the way from the imperfect to the perfect; some day, in this +life or some other, we shall reach our destiny. It is as much the part +of folly to waste time and cripple our forces in vain, unproductive +regrets in regard to the occurences of the past as it is to cripple our +forces through fears and forebodings for the future. + +There is no experience in any life which if rightly recognized, rightly +turned and thereby wisely used, cannot be made of value; many times +things thus turned and used can be made sources of inestimable gain; +ofttimes they become veritable blessings in disguise. + + * * * * * + + 'Tis the sweetest thing to remember + If courage be on the wane. + When the cold, dark days are over-- + Why, the birds go north again. + + _Ella Higginson_ + + * * * * * + +Nothing is more subtle than thought, nothing more powerful, nothing more +irresistible in its operations, when rightly applied and held to with a +faith and fidelity that is unswerving,--a faith and fidelity that never +knows the neutralizing effects of doubt and fear. If one have +aspirations and a sincere desire for a higher and better condition, so +far as advantages, facilities, associates, or any surroundings or +environments are concerned, and if he continually send out his highest +thought forces for the realization of these desires, and continually +water these forces with firm expectation as to their fulfillment, he +will sooner or later find himself in the realization of these desires, +and all in accordance with natural laws and forces. + +We are born to be neither slaves nor beggars, but to dominion and to +plenty. This is our rightful heritage, if we will but recognize and lay +claim to it. + + * * * * * + + One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, + Never doubted clouds would break, + Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, + Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, + Sleep to wake. + + _Robert Browning_ + + * * * * * + +Will is the steady directing power: it is concentration. It is the pilot +which, after the vessel is started by the mighty force within, puts it +on its right course and keeps it true to that course. + +Will is the sun-glass which so concentrates and so focuses the sun's +rays that they quickly burn a hole through the paper that is held before +it. The same rays, not thus concentrated, not thus focused, would fall +upon the paper for days without any effect whatever. Will is the means +for the directing, the concentrating, the focusing, of the +thought-forces. Thought under wise direction,--this it is that does the +work, that brings results, that makes the successful career. One object +in mind which we never lose sight of; an ideal steadily held before the +mind, never lost sight of, never lowered, never swerved from,--this, +with _persistence_, determines all. Nothing can resist the power of +thought, when thus directed by will. + + * * * * * + + To stand by one's friend to the uttermost end, + And fight a fair fight with one's foe; + Never to quit and never to twit, + And never to peddle one's woe. + + _George Brinton Chandler_ + + * * * * * + +The fearing, grumbling, worrying, vascillating do not succeed in +anything and generally live by burdening, in some form or another, +someone else. They stand in the way of, they prevent their own success; +they fail in living even an ordinary healthy, normal life; they cast a +blighting influence over and they act as a hindrance to all with whom +they at any time come in contact. The pleasures we take captive in life, +the growth and advancement we make, the pleasure and benefit our company +or acquaintanceship brings to others, the very desirability of our +companionship on the part of others--all depend upon the types of +thought we entertain and live most habitually with. + + * * * * * + + No one could tell me where my Soul might be. + I searched for God but God eluded me. + I sought my brother out and found all there. + + _Ernest Crosby._ + + * * * * * + +In the degree that we love will we be loved. Thoughts are forces. Each +creates of its kind. Each comes back laden with the effect that +corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause. + + "Then let your secret thoughts be fair-- + They have a vital part, and share + In shaping words and moulding fate; + God's system is so intricate." + +If our heart goes out in love to all with whom we come in contact, we +inspire love and the same ennobling and warming influences of love +always return to us from those in whom we inspire them. There is a deep +scientific principle underlying the precept--If you would have all the +world love you, you must first love all the world. + + * * * * * + + It was only a glad "Good morning!" + As she passed along the way, + But it spread the morning glory + Over the livelong day. + + * * * * * + +By example and not by precept. By living, not by preaching. By doing, +not by professing. By living the life, not by dogmatizing as to how it +should be lived. There is no contagion equal to the contagion of life. +Whatever we sow, that shall we also reap, and each thing sown produces +of its kind. We can kill not only by doing another bodily injury +directly, but we can and we do kill by every antagonistic thought. Not +only do we thus kill, but while we kill we suicide. Many a man has been +made sick by having the ill thoughts of a number of people centered upon +him; some have been actually killed. Put hatred into the world and we +make it a literal hell. Put love into the world and heaven with all its +beauties and glories becomes a reality. + +Not to love is not to live, or it is to live a living death. The life +that goes out in love to all is the life that is full, and rich, and +continually expanding in beauty and in power. Such is the life that +becomes ever more inclusive, and hence larger in its scope and +influence. + + * * * * * + + Give us men! + Strong and stalwart ones: + Men whom highest hope inspires, + Men whom purest honour fires, + Men who trample Self beneath them. + Men who make their country wreathe them + As her noble sons, + Worthy of their sires, + Men who never shame their mothers, + Men who never fail their brothers, + True, however false are others: + Give us Men--I say again, + Give us Men! + + _The Bishop of Exeter_ + + * * * * * + +_Not repression, but elevation._ Would that this could be repeated a +thousand times over! _No, a knowledge of the spiritual realities of life +prohibits asceticism, repression, the same as it prohibits license and +perverted use. To err on the one side is just as contrary to the ideal +life as to err on the other._ All things are for a purpose, all should +be used and enjoyed; but all should be rightly used, that they may be +fully enjoyed. + +It is the all-around, fully developed we want,--not the ethereal, +pale-blooded man and woman, but the man and woman of flesh and blood, +for action and service here and now,--the man and woman strong and +powerful, with all the faculties and functions fully unfolded and used, +all in a royal and bounding condition, but all rightly subordinated. The +man and the woman of this kind, with the imperial hand of mastery upon +all,--standing, moving thus like a king, nay, like a very God,--such is +the man and such is the woman of power. Such is the ideal life: anything +else is one-sided, and falls short of it. + + * * * * * + + High thought and noble in all lands + Help me; my soul is fed by such, + But oh, at the touch of life and hands-- + The human touch! + Warm, vital, close, life's Symbol dear,-- + These need I most, and now and here. + + _Richard Burton_ + + * * * * * + +Thoughts of strength both build strength from within and attract it from +without. Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness from within and attract +it from without. Courage begets strength, fear begets weakness. And so +courage begets success, fear begets failure. It is the man or the woman +of faith, and hence of courage, who is the master of circumstances, and +who make his or her power felt in the world. It is the man or the woman +who lacks faith and who as a consequence is weakened and crippled by +fears and forebodings, who is the creature of all passing occurences. + +What one lives in his invisible thought world he is continually +actualizing in his visible material world. If he would have any +conditions different in the latter he must make the necessary change in +the former. A clear realization of this great fact would bring success +to thousands of men and women who all about us are now in the depths of +despair. It would bring health, abounding health and strength to +thousands now diseased and suffering. It would bring peace and joy to +thousands now unhappy and ill at ease. + + * * * * * + + I stay my haste, I make delays, + For what avails this eager pace? + I stand amid eternal ways, + And what is mine shall know my face + + Asleep, awake, by night or day, + The friends I seek are seeking me; + No wind can drive my bark astray, + Nor change the tide of destiny-- + + The waters know their own, and draw + The brooks that spring in yonder height; + So flows the good with equal law + Unto the soul of pure delight. + + The stars come nightly to the sky; + The tidal wave unto the sea; + Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, + Can keep my own away from me. + + _John Burroughs_ + + * * * * * + +The thing that pays, and that makes for a well balanced, useful, and +happy life, is not necessarily and is not generally a somber, pious +morality, or any standard of life that keeps us from a free, happy, +spontaneous use and enjoyment of all normal and healthy faculties, +functions, and powers, the enjoyment of all innocent pleasures--use, but +not abuse, enjoyment, but enjoyment through self-mastery and not through +license or perverted use, for it can never come that way. Look where we +will, in or out and around us, we will find that it is the middle +ground--neither poverty nor excessive riches, good wholesome use without +license, a turning into the bye-ways along the main road where innocent +and healthy God-sent and God-intended pleasures and enjoyments are to be +found; but never getting far enough away to lose sight of the road +itself. The middle ground it is that the wise man or woman plants foot +upon. + + * * * * * + + For evil poisons; malice shafts + Like boomerangs return, + Inflicting wounds that will not heal + While rage and anger burn. + + * * * * * + +Tell me how much one loves and I will tell you how much he has seen of +God. Tell me how much he loves and I will tell you how much he lives +with God. Tell me how much he loves and I will tell you how far into the +Kingdom of Heaven,--the kingdom of harmony, he has entered, for "love is +the fulfilling of the law." + +And in a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, and its +influences are those that move the world. Live only in the thought of +love for all and you will draw love to you from all. Live in the thought +of malice or hatred, and malice and hatred will come back to you. + +And so love inspires love; hatred breeds hatred. Love and good will +stimulate and build up the body; hatred and malice corrode and tear it +down. Love is a savor of life unto life; hatred is a savor of death unto +death. + + "There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, + There are souls that are pure and true; + Then give to the world the best you have, + And the best will come back to you. + + "Give love, and love to _your_ heart will flow, + A strength in your utmost need; + Have faith, and a score of hearts will show + Their faith in _your_ word and deed." + + * * * * * + + The kind of a man for you and me! + He faces the world unflinchingly, + And smiles as long as the world exists, + With a knuckled faith and force like fists: + He lives the life he is preaching of, + And loves where most is the need of love; + And feeling still, with a grief half glad, + That the bad are as good as the good are bad, + He strikes straight out for the right--and he + Is the kind of a man for you and me! + + _James Whitcomb Riley_ + + * * * * * + +After a certain age is reached in any life, the prevailing tone and +condition of that life is the resultant of the mental habits of that +life. If one have mental equipment sufficient to find and to make use of +the Science of Thought in its application to scientific mind and body +building, habit and character building, there is little by way of +heredity, environment, attainment of which he or she will not be the +master. + +One thing is very certain--the mental points of view, the mental +tendencies and habits at twenty-eight and thirty-eight will have +externalized themselves and will have stamped the prevailing conditions +of any life at forty-eight and fifty-eight and sixty-eight. + + * * * * * + + Who puts back into place a fallen bar. + Or flings a rock out of a traveled road, + His feet are moving toward the central star, + His name is whispered in the Gods' abode. + + _Edwin Markham_ + + * * * * * + +We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday +life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need +occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the +members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they +are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away +from them for a period, or they from us. + +We need these changes to get the kinks out of our minds, our nerves, our +muscles--the cobwebs off our faces. We need them to whet again the edge +of appetite. We need them to invite the mind and the soul to new +possibilities and powers. We need them in order to come back with new +implements, or with implements redressed, sharpened, for the daily +duties. + +We need periods of being by ourselves--_alone_. Sometimes a fortnight or +even a week will do wonders for one, unless he or she has drawn too +heavily upon the account. The simple custom, moreover, of taking an +hour, or even a half hour, _alone in the quiet_, in the midst of the +daily routine of life, would be the source of _inestimable gain_ for +countless numbers. + + * * * * * + + I know not where His islands lift + Their fronded palms in air; + I only know I cannot drift + Beyond His love and care. + + _Whittier_ + + * * * * * + +We need more faith in everyday life--faith in the power that works for +good, faith in the Infinite God, and hence faith in ourselves created in +His image. And however things at times may seem to go, however dark at +times appearances may be, the knowledge of the fact that "the Supreme +Power has us in its charge as it has the suns and endless systems of +worlds in space," will give us the supreme faith that all is well with +us, the same as all is well with the world. "Thou wilt keep him in +perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee." + +There is nothing firmer, and safer, and surer than Deity. Then, as we +recognize the fact that we have it in our own hands to open ourselves +ever more fully to this Infinite Power, and call upon it to manifest +itself in and through us, we will find in ourselves an ever increasing +sense of power. For in this way we are working in conjunction with it, +and it in turn is working in conjunction with us. 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