2 quotations linked to In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by or associated with Ralph Waldo Trine, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Optimism, inner attitude, purpose, confidence, self-development and Trine’s account of harmony with an “Infinite” spiritual source.
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“What one has done, all may do.”
Trine presents earlier human attainment as evidence of possibility rather than as a closed privilege, using the claim to encourage readers to regard growth as achievable.
Source note: In Tune with the Infinite, Preface; Project Gutenberg #23559. This is New Thought-era possibility rhetoric, not empirical evidence that every person can reproduce every achievement regardless of circumstance.
“The optimist has the power of seeing things in their entirety and in their right relations.”
Optimism is defined here as a broader way of interpreting circumstances: the positive outlook is linked to seeing relationships and the whole situation rather than only one discouraging part.
Source note: In Tune with the Infinite, Prelude; Project Gutenberg #23559. The sentence belongs to Trine’s philosophical New Thought contrast between optimist and pessimist and should not be treated as a clinical definition.