As A Man Thinketh

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Good thoughts and ations can never produce bad results; bad thoughts

and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that

nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but

nettles. Men understand this law in the natural world and work with

it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its

operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they,

therefore, do not cooperate with it.

 

Suffering is always the effet of wrong thought in some direction. It

is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,

with the Law of his being. The sole and supreme use of suffering is

to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. Suffering

ceases for him who is pure. There could be no objet in burning gold

after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly pure and

enlightened being could not suffer.

 

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the

result of his own mental in harmony. The circumstances which a man

encounters with blessedness are the result of his own mental harmony.

Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right

thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the

measure of wrong thougt. A man may be cursed and rich; he may be

blessed and poor. Blessedness and riches are only joined together

when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only

descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden

unjustly imposed.

 

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