Résultats pour "Ralph Waldo Trine" dans Sciences sociales et politiques

We are all dwellers in two kingdoms, the inner kingdom, the kingdom of the mind and spirit, and the outer kingdom, that of the body and the physical universe about us. To strike the right balance in life is one of the supreme essentials of all successful living. We must work, for we must have bread. There are moments in the lives of all of us when we catch glimpses of a life—our life—that is infinitely beyond the life we are now living. We realize that we are living below our possibilities. We long for the realization of the life that we feel should be.

Before 'New Age' there was 'New Thought', a philosophy that sought God through metaphysics and was wildly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American mystic and best-selling author Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) was one of the most significant writers on New Thought principles, and here, in this 1913 work, subtitled The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness, Power, and Happiness, Trine explores: How to cultivate the state of mind that draws success to it.

The greatest thing ever known - what is it? Surely the answer must be one that is absolutely universal, both in its nature and in the possibilities of its application. In laying our foundation, therefore, it must be laid upon something as true and as certain as life itself, and as eternal as everlasting life. Let us make our approach, not from the theological standpoint, but from that which is far more certain and satisfactory - the philosophical.