The Winning of the BestBefore "New Age" there was "New Thought," a self-help philosophy that sought expanded consciousness and spiritual truth through positive thinking 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 1912 work, Trine explores: . the power of optimism in achieving inner harmony . the science of thought and personal magnetism . the wisdom of leniency when judging ourselves and others . the importance of keeping a sense of proportion . and much more. _____________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO... Trine's: Through the Sunlit Year . What All the World's A-Seeking . On the Open Road . My Philosophy and My Religion . The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit . Every Living Creature . Character-Building Thought Power . This Mystical Life of Ours .The Greatest Thing Ever Known |
Contents
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The Best Is the Life | 35 |
The Power That Makes Us What We Are | 49 |
A Basis of Philosophy and Religion | 73 |
How We Will Win the Best | 87 |
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Page 82 - Master, which is the great commandment in the law ? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Page 84 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 84 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Page 84 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 84 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Page 27 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Page 54 - Education consists in leading man, as a thinking, intelligent being, growing into selfconsciousness, to a pure and unsullied, conscious and free representation of the inner law of Divine Unity, and in teaching him ways and means thereto.
Page 70 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Page 56 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 94 - If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading...