As A Man Thinketh

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EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON CIRCUMSTANCES

 

A MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently

cultivated or allowed to run wild; whether cultivated or neglected it

must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then

an abundance of useless weed-seeds fall therein, and will continue to

produce their kind.

 

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot keeping it free from weeds,

and growing the flowers which he requires, so may a man tend the

garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure

thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of

right, usefl, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man

sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul,

the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws

of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the

thought-forces and mind-elements operate in the shaping of his

character, circumstances and destiny.

 

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and

discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer

conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously

related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man's

circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire

character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected

with some vital thought-element within himself that, for the time

being, they are indispensable to his development.

 

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