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THE SPIRITUAL AND SELF IMPROVEMENT BOOK COLLECTION
The Self-Mastery Book Collection Every Seeker Should Own. These are Spiritual Classics Transforming Inner Awareness! The Essential Mind and Spirit Book Set for Personal Growth.
Metaphysical and Self Improvement Book Collection
Everything Is One Thing
Many names have been given to this one presence, for though it is beyond words, the heart of every soul has felt its nearness. The religious may call it God, bowing in reverence before the source of all life. The spiritual person may speak of it as the infinite, the ever-present, or the eternal light. The philosopher may call it truth. The scientist may see it as the unifying field. And the atheist, though discarding the language of faith, may still feel its rhythm in nature or in love.
Call it holy spirit, call it God, call it the one; its name matters not. Names are but fingers pointing to the same sun. That which all hearts seek, though clothed in many forms and called by many tongues, is one and the same. It is not the word that holds power, but the reality to which it points. And to know this presence is not to adopt a creed, but to awaken to what has always been.
In Tune with the Infinite
The great central fact of the universe is that Spirit of Infinite Life and Power that is behind all, that animates all, that manifests itself in and through all; that self-existent principle of life from which all has come, and not only from which all has come, but from which all is continually coming. If there is an individual life, there must of necessity be an infinite source of life from which it comes.
If there is a quality or a force of love, there must of necessity be an infinite source of love whence it comes. If there is wisdom, there must be the all-wise source behind it from which it springs. The same is true in regard to peace, the same in regard to power, the same in regard to what we call material things.
The Way of Peace
Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint has climbed it; every sinner must sooner or later come to it, and every weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self and the world, and sets his face resolutely toward the Father's Home, must plant his feet upon its golden rounds. Without its aid you cannot grow into the divine state, the divine likeness, the divine peace, and the fadeless glories and unpolluting joys of Truth will remain hidden from you.
Meditation is the intense dwelling, in thought, upon an idea or theme, with the object of thoroughly comprehending it, and whatsoever you constantly meditate upon you will not only come to understand, but will grow more and more into its likeness, for it will become incorporated into your very being, will become, in fact, your very self. If, therefore, you constantly dwell upon that which is selfish and debasing, you will ultimately become selfish and debased; if you ceaselessly think upon that which is pure and unselfish you will surely become pure and unselfish.
Within You Is the Power
The object of this little book is to help men and women to bring their inward powers of mind and spirit into expression, wisely and in harmony with universal law; to build up character, and to find within themselves that wondrous Self, which is their real self, and which, when found, reveals to them that they are literally and truly sons of God and daughters of the Most High.
There is no way whereby the discipline of life can be avoided. There is no means by which fate can be "tricked," nor cunning device by which the great cosmic plan can be evaded. Each life must meet its own troubles and difficulties: each soul must pass through its deep waters, every heart must encounter sorrow and grief. But none need be overwhelmed in the great conflicts of life, for one who has learned the great secret of his identity with the Universal life and Power, dwells in an impregnable city, built upon and into the Rock of Truth, against which the storms of life beat in vain.