In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine

Fear and worry and all kinds of kindred mental states are too expensive for any person, man, woman, or child, to entertain or indilge in. Fear paralyzes healthy action, worry corrodes and pulls down the organism, and will finally tear it to pieces. Nothing is to be gained by it, but everything to be lost. Long-continued grief at any loss will do the same. Each brings its own particular type of ailment. An inordinate love of gain, close fisted, hoarding disposition will have kindred effects. Anger, jealousy, malice, continual fault-finding, lust, has each its own peculiar corroding, weakening, tearing down effects.

We shall find that not only are happiness and prosperity concomitants of righteousness,-living in harmony with the higher laws, but bodily health as well.
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When we thus go directly to the Infinite Source itself we are no longer slaves to personalities, institutions, or books. We should always keep ourselves open to suggestions of truth from these agencies. We should alwaysregard them as agencies, however, never as sources. We should never recognize them as masters, but simply as teachers. With Browning, we must recognize the fact that-

"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness."

There is no more important injuction in all the world, nor one with deeper interior meaning, than "To thine own self be true". In other words, be true to your own soul, for it is through your own soul that the voice of god speaks to you. This is the interior guide. This is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. This is conscience. This is intuition. This is the voice of the higher self, the voice of the soul, the voice of god. "Thou shalt hear a voice behind thee, saying: This is the way, walk ye in it".

1897