As A Man Thinketh

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THE THOUGHT FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT

 

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the

direct result of his own th oughts. In a justly ordered unierse where

loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual

responsibility must be absolute. A man's weakness and strength,

purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are

brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be

altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own,

and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved

from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he

remains.

 

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless that weaker is willing to be

helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he

must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in

another. None but himself can alter his condition.

 

It has been usual for men to think and to say, " Many men are slaves

because one is an oppressor; let us h ate the oppressor. " Now,

however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse

this judgement, and to say, " One man is an oopressor because many are

slaves; let us despise the slaves. " The truth is that oppressor and

slave are cooperators in ignorance, and while seeming to afflict each

other, are in reality afflicting themselves. A perfect Knowledge

perceives the action of law in the weakness of the oppressed and the

misapplied pwer of the oppressor; a perfect Love, seeing the

suffering with both states entail, condemns neither; a perfect

compasion embraces both oppressor and oppressed.

 

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