Sunday, September 10, 2006

Ralph Waldo Trine: DREAM WORK

The mind acting intently along a particular line will continue so to act until some other object of thought carries it along another line. And since in sleep only the body is in quiet while the mind and soul are active, then the mind on being given a certain direction when one drops off to sleep, will take up the line along which it is directed, and can be made, in time, to bring over into consciousness the results of its activities. Some will be able very soon to get results of this kind; for some it will take longer. Quiet and continued effort will increase the faculty.

Then by virtue of the law of the drawing power of mind, since the mind is always active, we are drawing to us even while sleeping influences from the realms kindred to those in which we in our thoughts are living before we fall asleep. In this way we can put ourselves into relation with whatever kinds of influence we choose, and accordingly gain much during the process of sleep.

In many ways the interior faculties are more open and receptive while we are in sleep than while we are awake. Hence the necessity of exercising even greater care as to the nature of the thoughts that occupy the mind as we enter into sleep ...

And for the same reason - this greater degree of receptivity during this period - we are able by understanding and using the law to gain much of value more readily in this way than when the physical senses are fully open to the material world about us.

- Ralph Waldo Trine, Quotes from In Tune with the Infinite, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1960, pp. 110-112

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