As A Man Thinketh

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And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle

wish) of your heart be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for

you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly most love.

Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts

you will receive that which you earn; no more no less. Whatever you

present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your

thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal. You will become as small as your

controlling desire; as great as your dominant desire; as great as your

dominant aspiration: in the beautiful words of Stanton Kirkham Davis,

" you may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the

door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals,

and shall find yourself before an audience - the pen still behind your

ear, the ink-stains on your fingers - and then and there shall pour

out the torrent of your inspiration. You may be driving sheep, and you

shall wander to the city-bucolic and open-mouthed; shall wander under

the intrepid guidance of the spirit into the studio of the m aster,

and after a time he shall say " I have nothing more to teach you. " And

now you have become master, who did so recently dream of great things

while driving sheep. You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take

upon yourself the regeneration of the world " .

 

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent seeing only the

apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck

or fortune, and chance. Seeing a man grow rich, they say, " How lucky

he is! " Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, " How

highly favoured he is! " And nothing the saintly character and wide

influence of another, they remark, " How chance aids him at every turn! "

 

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