The Power of Your Transcendental Mind (Condensed Classics)

Book excerpt: Discover the Infinite You Have you ever wondered whether there is more to life? Whether you are destined for something greater than going through your days cleaving to a routine, hoping for some payoff, and anesthetizing yourself with entertainment and consumption? The truth is: a greater you exists. The writers in this collection bring you into a full realization of the transcendent life to which you are connected—through the medium of your mind. In The Power of Your Transcendental Mind, you will discover how thoughts not only create the life that you experience, but thoughts are life itself. The voices of Henry David Thoreau (Walden), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Power & Wealth), Ralph Waldo Trine (In Tune with the Infinite) and James Allen (As a Man Thinketh) expose you to a new dimension of yourself—the true dimension, in which you are an Infinite Being. This special collection is abridged and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, who provides historical background and guidance in order to glean the most from the work of these modern transcendental masters. “Evaluate these works on your own terms,” Mitch writes in his introduction; “test their usefulness through application; and bring your own questions to them and out of them. ‘Spirituality’ is not a closed-circuitry but a field of discovery where we attempt to understand our connections to greater laws and forces. Let this collection serve as a rung to your discovery.”