As A Man Thinketh

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There can be no programme, no achievement without sacrifice, and a

man's worldly will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused

animal th oughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans,

and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance. And the

higher he lifts his thoughts, the more manly, upright, and righteous

be becomes, the greater will be his success, the more blessed and

enduring will be his achievements.

 

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious,

although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it

helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great

Teachers of the agaes have declared this in varying forms, and to

prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and

more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.

 

Intellectual achievements are the result of thought consecrated to

the serach for knowledge, or for the beautiful and true in life and

nature. Such achievements may be sometimes connected with vanity and

ambition, but they are not the outcome of th ose charateristics; they

are the natural outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and

unselfish thoughts.

 

Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations. He who lives

constantly in the conception of noble and lofty thoughts, who dwells upon all

that is pure and unselfish, will, as surely as the sun reaches its zenith and

the moon its full, become wise and noble in character, and rise into a position

of influence and blessedness.

 

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