Victoria True: Or, The Journal of a Live WomanStockham Publishing Company, 1895 - 154 pages "An important novel and an influential book in the New Thought movement, about self-healing, and, in some sense, about women's desires. Van-Anderson helped to found the movement in the Boston area." -- description from Between the Covers bookseller. |
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Page 8 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 35 - Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
Page 8 - tis coming ! Fraternity ! Love's other name ! Dear, heaven-connecting link of Being ! Then shall we grasp thy golden dream, As souls, full-statured, grow far-seeing. Thou shalt unfold our better part, And in our Life-cup yield more honey : Light up with joy the poor man's heart, And Love's own world, with smiles more sunny : T'is coming ! yes, 'tis coming...
Page 154 - So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shall sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations.
Page 60 - ... remember things. Well, my mother, she had the ague that day powerful, for it was after melon-time, and she sat on the porch and shook, and shook, and shook, and watched me plant it, and when I got done, my mother she cried. I don't know why she cried, Carrie, but she did. She cried and she cried, and when I went up to her, and put my arms around her neck and kissed her, she only cried the more, for she was sort of hysteric-like, you know, and she said she knew she'd never live to eat any fruit...
Page 57 - Soar like a bird on the pinions of thought, into this radiant realm and there from your shining height look down and see the clouds of doubt and sadness and disappointment melt and disappear.
Page 122 - In love there is no absence, and therefore no longing. Love gives real joy, real freedom. It holds to nothing but its own sublimity, and rests in the simple fact of its existence. It recognizes only the infinite Present where continual communion is possible, because of its wholeness and unity.
Page 78 - T is thy Individuality, the God within thee, and that which Maketh thee to know and be and do, With true, Divine authority.
Page 11 - True reflections, for thou wilt ever Grow like the speech thou Holdeth in thy mind and uttereth With thy lips.
Page 10 - Oh, that I might master this petty, foolish self that suffers and makes others suffer !