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AS A MAN THINKETH
Here is the classic James Allen work that has inspired millions around the world to change their lives for the better. For nearly a hundred years, Allen's words of positive thinking have provided the foundation for many of today's motivational leaders, including Norman Vincent Peale, Dale Carnegie, and Billy Graham.
In this concise work, Allen offers a simple yet elegant message about the innate power of control we all possess. As a Man Thinketh provides the means to gain confidence in ourselves, to take charge of the way we perceive things, and to reshape who we are to meet and conquer life's inevitable challenges.
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AS A MAN THINKETH
Here is the classic James Allen work that has inspired millions around the world to change their lives for the better. For nearly a hundred years, Allen's words of positive thinking have provided the foundation for many of today's motivational leaders, including Norman Vincent Peale, Dale Carnegie, and Billy Graham.
In this concise work, Allen offers a simple yet elegant message about the innate power of control we all possess. As a Man Thinketh provides the means to gain confidence in ourselves, to take charge of the way we perceive things, and to reshape who we are to meet and conquer life's inevitable challenges.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Pigeon Publishing House presents as a man Thinks author James Allen.
Mind is the master power that Moldsen makes, and man
is mind, And evermore he takes the tool of thought
and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys,
a thousand ills. He thinks in secret, and it comes
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to pass. Environment is but his looking glass forward. This
little volume, the result of meditation and experience, is not
intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much written upon
subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather
than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women
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to the discovery and perception of the truth that they
themselves are makers of themselves by virtue of the thoughts
which they choose and encourage, that mind is the master
weaver both of the inner garment of character and the
outer garment of circumstance, And that as they may have
hitherto woven in ignorance and pain, they may now even
enlightenment and happiness. James Allen, broad Park, Avenue, ilfracoumb, England.
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As a man thinks thought and character the aphorism as
a man thinks in his heart, So is he not
only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is
so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and
circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks,
his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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As the plant springs from and could not be without
the seed, so every act of a man springs from
the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared
without them. This applies equally to those acts called spontaneous
and unpremeditated, as to those which are deliberately executed. Act
is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are
its fruits. Thus does a man garner in the sweet
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and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry fought in the mind,
hath made us what we are by thought, was wrought
and built. If a man's mind hath evil thoughts, pain
comes on him as comes the wheel the ox behind.
If one endure in purity of thought, joy follows him
as his own shadow. Sure man is a growth by
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law and not a creation by artifice, and cause and
effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm
of thought as in the world of visible and material things.
A noble and godlike character is not a thing of
favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued
effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association
with godlike thoughts. An ignoble and vestual character, by the
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same process, is the result of the continued harboring of
groveling thoughts. Man is made or unmade by himself. In
the armory of thought. He forges the weapons by which
he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which
he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength
and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought,
man ascends to the divine perfection. By the abuse and
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wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of
the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades
of character, and man is their maker and master of
all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul, which have
been restored and brought to light in this age. None
is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence
than this, that man is the master of thought, the
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molder of character, and the maker in shaper of condition,
environment and destiny, as a being of power, intelligence, and love,
and the lord of his own thoughts. Man holds the
key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming
and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what
he wills. Man is always the master, even in his
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weaker in most abandoned state. But in his weakness and
degradation he is the foolish master who miscoverns his household.
When he begins to reflect upon his condition and to
search diligently for the law upon which his being is established,
he then becomes the wise master, directing his energies with
intelligence and fashioning his thoughts to fruitful issues. Such is
the conscious master, and man can only thus become by
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discovering within himself the wild laws of thought, which discovery
is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience.
Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained.
And man can find every truth connected with his being
if he will dig deep into the mind of his soul,
and that he is the maker of his character, the
molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny.
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He may unerringly prove if he will watch, control and
alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others,
and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect
by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing his every experience,
even to the most trivial everyday occurrence, as a means
of obtaining the knowledge of himself, which is understanding wisdom. Power.
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In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute,
that he that seeketh thendeth, and to him the knocketh,
it shall be opened. For only by patience, practice, and
ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the
Temple of knowledge effect of thought on circumstances. Man's mind
may be likened to a guard, which may be intelligently
cultivated or allowed to run wild. But whether cultivated or neglected,
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it must and will bring forth. If no useful seeds
are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed
seeds will 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 and fruits which he requires,
so may a man tend the garden of his mind,
weeding out all the wrong, useless and impure thoughts, and
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cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right useful
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 in mind elements operate
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in the shaping of his character. Circumstances and destiny. Thought
and character are one, and his 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
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so intimately connected with some vital thought element within himself
that for the time being they are indispensable to his development.
Every man is where he is by the law of
his being. The thoughts which he has built into his
character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of
his life. There is no element of chance, but all
is the result of a law which cannot err. This
is just as true of those who feel out of
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harmony with their surroundings as of those who are contented
with them. As a progressive and evolving being, man is
where he is that he may learn, that he may grow.
And as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance
contains for him, it passes away and gives place to
other circumstances. Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as
he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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But when he realizes that he is a creative power,
and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds
of his being, out of which sircumstances grow, he then
becomes the rightful master of himself. That circumstances grow out
of thought. Every man knows who has, for any length
of time practice self control and self purification, for he
will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has
been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So
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true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself
to remedy the defects in his character and makes swift
and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours that which
it loves and also that which it fears. It reaches
the height of its cherished aspirations, it falls to the
level of its unchastened desires. And circumstances are the means
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by which the soul receives its own. Every thought seeds
sown or allowed to fall into the mind and to
take root. There produces its own blossoming sooner or later
into act and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity. In circumstance,
good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. The
outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world
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of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are
factors which make for the ultimate good of the individual.
As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both
by suffering and bliss following the inmost desires aspirations, thoughts
by which he allows himself to be dominated. Pursuing the
willow the wisps of impure imaginings, or steadfastly walking the
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highway of strong and high endeavour, a man at last
arrives at their fruition and fulfillment in the outer conditions
of his life. The laws of growth and adjustment everywhere obtains.
A man does not come to the almshouse or the
jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by
the pathway of grobbling thoughts and base desires. Nor does
a pure minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress
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of any mere external force. The criminal thought had long
been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of
opportunity revealed its gathered power. Circumstance does not make the
man it reveals into himself. No such conditions can exist
as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from
vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness,
without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations. And man, therefore,
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as the lord and master of thought, is the maker
of himself, the shaper and author of environment. Even at birth,
the soul comes to its own and through every step
of its earthly pilgrimage, it attracts those combinations of conditions
which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own
purity and impurity, its strength and weakness. Men do not
attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step,
but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their
own food, be it foul or clean. The divinity that
shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very
self only himself. Manacles, man thought in action are the
jailers of fate. They imprison, being base. They are also
the angels of freedom, they liberate, being noble. Not what
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he wishes in praise for does a man get, but
what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only
gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts. As
in the light of this truth, What then, is the
meaning of fighting against circumstances? It means that a man
is continually revolting against an effect without while all the
time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart.
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That cause may take the form of a conscious vice
or an unconscious weakness, but whatever it is, it stubbornly
retards the efforts of its possessor, and thus calls aloud
for remedy. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but
are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound the
man who does not shrink from self crucifixion can never
fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
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This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things.
Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth
must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he
can accomplish his object, and how much more so he
who would realize a strong and well poised life. Here
is a man who is wretchedly poor. He is extremely
anxious that his surroundings and home comfort should be improved,
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Yet all the time he shirks his work and considers
he is justified in trying to deceive his employer on
the ground of the insufficiency of his wages. Such a
man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles
which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not
only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but
is actually attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by
dwelling in and acting out indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.
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Here is a rich man who is the victim of
a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony.
He is willing to give large sums of money to
get rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his
gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich
and unnatural vince and have his health as well. Such
a man is totally unfit to have health, because he
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has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.
Here is an employer of labor who adopts crooked measures
to avoid paying the regulation wage, and in the hope
of making larger profits, reduces the wages of his workpeople.
Which a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity. And when
he finds himself bankrupt, both as regards reputation and riches,
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he blames circumstances, not knowing that he is the sole
author of his condition. I have introduced these three cases
merely as illustrative of the truth that man is the causer,
though nearly always is unconsciously of his circumstances, and that,
whilst aiming at a good end, he is continually frustrating
its accomplishment by encouraging thoughts and desires which cannot possibly
harmonize with that end. Such cases could be multiplied and
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varied almost indefinitely. But this is not necessary, as the
reader can if he so resolves, trace the action of
the laws of thought in his own mind and life,
And until this is done, near external facts cannot serve
as a ground of reasoning. Circumstances, however, are so complicated.
Thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness
very so vastly with individuals, that a man's entire sole condition,
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although it may be known to himself, cannot be judged
by another from the external aspect of his life alone.
A man may be honest and certain directions, yet suffer privations.
A man may be dishonest in certain directions yet acquire wealth.
But the conclusion usually formed that the one man fails
because of his particular honesty and that the other prospers
because of his particular dishonesty is the result of a
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superficial judgment, which assumes that the dishonest man is almost
totally corrupt and the honest man almost entirely virtuous. In
the light of a deeper knowledge and wider experienced, such
judgment is found to be erroneous. The dishonest man may
have some admirable virtues which the other does not possess,
and the honest man obnoxious vices which are absent in
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the other. The honest man reached the good results of
his honest thoughts and acts, he also brings upon himself
the sufferings which his vices produce. The dishonest man, likewise
garners his own suffering and happiness. It is pleasing to
human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtue.
But not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter
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and impure thought from his mind, and washed every sinful
stain from his soul, can he be in a position
to know and declares that his sufferings are the result
of his good and not of his bad qualities. And
on the way to yet, long before he has reached
that supreme perfection, he will have found working in his
mind in life, the great law which is absolutely just,
and which cannot therefore give good for evil evil for good.
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Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back
upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is
and always was justly ordered, and that all his past experiences,
good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving
yet unavalved self. Good thoughts and actions can never produce
bad results. Bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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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 effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is
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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 object in burning
gold after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly
pure and enlightened being could not suffer. The circumstances which
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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 thought.
A man may be cursed and rich, he may be
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blessed in 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. Indigence and indulgence are
the two ex feaans of wretchedness. They are both equally
unnatural and the result of mental disorder. A man is
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not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and
prosperous being, and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result
of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer
of the man with his surroundings. A man only begins
to be a man when he ceases to whine and
revile and commences to search for the hidden justice which
regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to
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that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the
cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong
and noble thoughts, ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins
to use them as aids to his more rapid progress
and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and
possibilities within himself. Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle
in the universe. Justice, not injustice, is the soul and
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substance of life, and righteousness not corruption, is the molding
and moving force in the spiritual government of the world.
This being so, man has but to right himself to
find them. The universe is right, and during the process
of putting himself right, he will find that as he
alters his thoughts towards things in other people, things and
other people will alter towards him. The proof of this
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truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of
easy investigation by systematic introspection and self analysis. Let a
man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished
at the rapid transformation it will affect in the material
conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be
kept secret, but it cannot. It rapidly crystallizes into habit,
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and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial thoughts crystallize into habits
of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution
and disease. Impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating
and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances.
Thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly,
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and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence,
and slavish dependence. Lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness
and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary.
Hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize in the habits of accusation
and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury and persecution.
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Selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self seeking,
which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing. On the
other hand, beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize in the
habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and
sunny circumstances. Pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and
self control, which solidify into circumstances of repose. In peace,
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thoughts of courage, self reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits,
which solidify into circumstances of success, plenty, and freedom. Energetic
thoughts crystallize in the habits of cleanliness and industry, which
solidify into circumstances of pleasantness. Gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize
into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances.
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Loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self forgetfulness
for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding
prosperity and true riches. A particular train of thought persisted in,
be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its
results on the character in circumstances. A man cannot directly
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choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and
so indirectly yet surely shape his circumstances. Nature helps every
man to the gratification of the thoughts which he most encourages,
and opportunities are presented which will most speedily bring to
the surface both the good and evil thoughts. Let a
man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world
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will soften towards him and be ready to help him.
Let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and
lo opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid
his strong results. Let him encourage good thoughts, and no
hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.
The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of
colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you
are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever moving thoughts.
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So you will be what you will to be. Let
failure find its false content in that poor word environment,
but spirit scorns it and is free. It masters time,
It conquers space it caused that boastful trickster chance, and
bids the tyrant circumstance on crown and fill a servant's place.
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The human will, that force unseen, the offspring of a
deathless soul, can hew away to any goal. The walls
of granite intervene. Be not impatient in delays, but wait
as one who understands. When spirit rises and commands. The
gods are ready to obey effective thought on health and
the body. The body is the servant of the mind.
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It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be
deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts,
the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay. At the
command of glad and beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with
youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health like circumstances are rooted
in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body.
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Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man
as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing
thousands of people just as surely, though less rapidly. The
people who live in fear of disease are the people
who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and
lays it open to the entrance of disease. While in
pure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will soon shatter
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the nervous system. Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up
the body in vigor and grace. The body is a
delicate and plastic instrument which responds readily to the thoughts
by which it is impressed. And habits of thought will
produce their own effects, good or bad. Upon it. Men
will continue to have impure in poisoned blood so long
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as they propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean heart
comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of
a defile mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.
Thought is the thought of action, Life and manifestation. Make
the fountain pure, and all will be pure. Change of
diet will not help a man who will not change
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his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he
no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts, make clean habits.
The so called saint who does not wash his body
is not a saint. He who has strengthened and purified
his thoughts does not need to consider the malevolent microbe.
If you would protect your body, guard your mind, if
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you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment,
despondency rob the body of its health and grace. A
sour face does not come by chance. It is made
by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion,
and pride. I know a woman of ninety six who
has the bright, innocent face of a girl. I know
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a man well under middle aged whose face is drawn
into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a
sweet and sunny disposition, the other is the outcome of
passion and discontent. As you cannot have a sweet and
wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely
into your rooms. So a strong body and a bright,
happy or serene countenance can only result from the free
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admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill
and serenity. On the faces of the aged, there are
wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thought,
and others are carved by passion. Who cannot distinguish them
with those who have lived righteously. Age is calm, peaceful,
and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently
seen a philosopher on his deathbed. He was not old
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except in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as
he had lived. There is no physician like cheerful thought
for dissipating the ills of the body. There is no
comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief.
And sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion,
and aid is to be confined in a self made prisonhole.
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But to think well of all, to be cheerful withal
to patiently learn to find the good in all such
unselfish thoughts of the very portals of heaven, and to
dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every
creature will bring a bounding peace to their possessor thought
and purpose. Until thought is linked with purpose, there is
no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority. The bark of thought
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is allowed to drift upon the ocean of life. Aimlessness
is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for
him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction. They
who have no central purpose in their life fallen easy
prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self pityings, all
of which are indications of weakness, which lead just as
surely as deliberately plan sends, though by a different route
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to failure. Unhappiness and loss, for weakness cannot persist in
a power evolving universe. A man should conceive of a
legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it.
He should make this purpose the sun centralizing point of
his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal,
or it may be a worldly object according to his
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nature at the time being, but whichever it is, he
should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which
he has set before him. He should make this purpose
his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment,
not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings,
and imaginings. This is the royal road to self control
and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again
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and again to accomplish his purpose, as he necessarily must,
until weakness is overcome, the strength of character gained will
be the measure of his true success, and this will
form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a
great purpose should fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance
of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear.
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Only in this way can the thoughts be gathered and focused,
and resolution and energy be developed. Which being done, there
is nothing which may not be accomplished. The weakest soul,
knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength
can only be developed by effort and practice, will thus,
believing at once begin to exert itself and adding effort
to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will
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never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by
careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts
can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to
think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those
strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the
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pathways to attainment, who make all conditions serve them, and
who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. Having conceived
of this purpose, a man should mentally mark out a
straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right
nor the left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded.
They are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line
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of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual. Useless Thoughts of doubt
in fear never accomplished anything, and never can They always
lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all
strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in. The
will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and
he who encourages them, who does not slay them forwarts
himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt and
fear has conquered failure. His every thought is allied with power,
and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome. His
purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth
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fruit which does not fall prematurely to the ground. Thought
ally fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows
this is ready to become something higher and stronger than
a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. He
who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder
of his mental powers. The thought factor in achievement. All
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that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve,
is the direct result of his own thoughts. In a
justly ordered universe, 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,
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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
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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 hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is, amongst an
increasing few, a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say,
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one man is an oppressor 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 power of the oppressor. A perfect love,
seeing the suffering which both states entail, condemns neither. A
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perfect compassion embraces both oppressor and oppressed. He who has
conquered weakness and has put away all selfish thoughts belongs
neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free. A man
can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by
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refusing to lift up his thoughts. Before a man can
achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his
thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, in order
to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness by any means,
but a portion of it must at least be sacrificed.
A man whose first thought is best to indulgence could
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neither think clearly nor plan methodically. He could not find
and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking.
Not having commenced to manfully control his thoughts, he is
not in a position to control affairs and to adopt
serious responsibilities. He is not fit to act independently and
stand alone, but he is limited only by the thoughts
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which he chooses. There can be no progress, no achievement
without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be in
the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts 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 he becomes, the greater will be his success, the
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more blessed and enduring will be his achievements. The universe
does not favor 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 ages 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
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lifting up his thoughts. Intellectual achievements are the result of
thought consecrated to the search 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 those characteristics. They are the natural
outgrowth of long and arduous effort and of pure and
unselfish thoughts. Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations.
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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 in the
moon its full become wise and noble in character, and
rise into a position of influence and blessedness. Achievement of
whatever kind is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought.
By the aid of self control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and
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well directed thought of man as sin by the aid
of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought, a
man descends. A man may rise to high success in
the world, and even to lofty altitudes in the spiritual realm,
and again descend into weakness and wretchedness by allowing arrogant, selfish,
and corrupt thoughts to take possession of him. Victories attained
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by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many
give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back
into failure. All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or
spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are
governed by the same law, and are of the same method.
The only difference lies in the object of attainment. He
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who would accomplish little must sacrifice little. He who would
achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly
must sacrifice greatly. Visions and ideals, the dreamers are the
saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained
by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and
sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions
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of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers. It
cannot let their ideals fade and die. It lives in them.
It knows them as they realities which it shall one
day see and know. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage.
These are the makers of the afterworld, the architects of heaven.
The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring,
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humanity would perish. He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a
lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it.
Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds in
a wider universe, and he revealed it. Buddha beheld the
vision of a spiritual world, of stainless beauty and perfect peace,
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and he entered into it. Cherish your visions, Cherish your ideals,
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty
that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your
purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions,
all heavily environment. Of these. If you but remain true
to them, your world will at last be built. To
desire is to obtain. To aspire is to achieve. Shall
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man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and
his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance. Such is
not the law. Such a condition of things can never obtain.
Ask and receive, dream lofty dreams, And as you dream,
so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of
what you shall one day be. Your ideal is the
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prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The greatest
achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in
the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul,
awaking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. Your
circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so.
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If you but perceive an ideal and strive to reach it,
you cannot travel within and stand still without. Here is
a youth, hard pressed by poverty and labor, can find
long hours in an unhealthy workshop, unschooled and lacking all
the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things.
He thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty.
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He conceives of mentally builds up an ideal condition of life.
The vision of a wider liberty and a larger scope
takes possession of him, unrest urges him to action, and
he utilizes all his spare time and means, small though
they are, to the development of his latent powers and resources.
Very soon, so altered has his mind become that the
workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so
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out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out
of his life. As a garment is cast aside, and
with the growth of opportunities which fit the scope of
his expanding powers, he passes out of it. Forever. Years later,
we see this youth as a full grown man. We
find him a master of certain forces of the mind,
which he wields with worldwide influence and almost unequal power.
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In his hands, he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities.
He speaks, and lull lives are changed. Men and women
hang upon his words and remold their characters and sunlike
he becomes the fixed and luminous center round which innumerable
destinies revolve. He has realized the vision of his youth.
He has become one with his ideal. And you, too,
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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
your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or
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rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will
become as small as your controlling 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
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being stains on your fingers, And then and there shall
pour up 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 Master. And after a time he
shall say, I have nothing more to teach you. And
now you have become the master who did so recently
dream of great things while driving sheep. You shall lay
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down the saw on the plain 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 of fortune and chance.
Seeing a man grow rich, they say, how lucky he is.
Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, how highly favored he is,
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and noting the saintly character and wide influence of another,
they remark how chance aids him at every turn. They
do not see the trials and failures and struggles which
these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience.
Have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of
the undotted efforts they have put forward, of the faith
they have exercised that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable
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and realize the vision of their heart. They do not
know the darkness and the heartaches. They only see the
light and joy, and call it luck. They do not
see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the
pleasant goal and call it good fortune. Do not understand
the process, but only perceive the result and call it chance.
In all human affairs, there are efforts and there are results,
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And the strength of the effort is the measure of
the result. Chance is not Gifts. Powers, material, intellectual, and
spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort. They are thoughts, completed, objects, accomplished,
visions realized. The vision that you glorify in your mind,
the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, This you
will build your life. By this you will become serenity.
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Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
It is the result of long and patient effort in
self control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience
and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws
and operations of thought. A man becomes calm in the
measure that he understands himself as a thought evolved being,
For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the
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result of thought. And as he develops a right understanding
and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of
things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases
to fuss in human worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.
The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows
how to adapt himself to others, and they, in turn
reverence his spiritual strength and feel that they can learn
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of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a
man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his
power for good. Even the ordinary traitor will find his
business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self control
and equanimity, For people will always prefer to deal with
a man whose demeanor is strongly equable. The strong, calm
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man is always loved and revered. He is like a
shade giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering
rock in a storm. Who does not love a tranquil heart,
a sweet, tempered, balanced life. It does not matter whether
it rains or shines, or what changes come to those
possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm.
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That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity, is
the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.
It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold,
yeah than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money seeking
looks in comparison with a serene life, a life that
dwells in the ocean of truth, beneath the waves, beyond
the reach of tempests, in the eternal calm. How many
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people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all
that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy
their poise of character and make bad blood. It is
a question whether the great majority of people do not
ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of
self control. How few people we meet in life who
are well balanced, who have that ex exquisite poise which
is characteristic of the finished character. Yes, humanity surges with
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uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about
by anxiety and doubt. Only the wise man, only he
whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and
the storms of the soul obey him. Tempest tossed souls.
Wherever ye may be, under whatsoever conditions you may live,
know this. In the ocean of life, the isles of
blessedness are smiling, and the sunny shore of your ideal
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awaits your coming. Keep your hand firmly upon the helm
of thought. In the bark of your soul reclines the
commanding master. He does but sleep wake him self. Control
is strength, Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Say
unto your heart, peace be still. Pigeon Publishing House, Presented
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as a Man Thinks author James Allen Gracias Porescuccaris tell
of your liver esperamusculo, a justice futatu
Pigeon Publishing House presents as a man Thinks author James Allen.
Mind is the master power that Moldsen makes, and man
is mind, And evermore he takes the tool of thought
and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys,
a thousand ills. He thinks in secret, and it comes
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to pass. Environment is but his looking glass forward. This
little volume, the result of meditation and experience, is not
intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much written upon
subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather
than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women
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to the discovery and perception of the truth that they
themselves are makers of themselves by virtue of the thoughts
which they choose and encourage, that mind is the master
weaver both of the inner garment of character and the
outer garment of circumstance, And that as they may have
hitherto woven in ignorance and pain, they may now even
enlightenment and happiness. James Allen, broad Park, Avenue, ilfracoumb, England.
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As a man thinks thought and character the aphorism as
a man thinks in his heart, So is he not
only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is
so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and
circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks,
his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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As the plant springs from and could not be without
the seed, so every act of a man springs from
the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared
without them. This applies equally to those acts called spontaneous
and unpremeditated, as to those which are deliberately executed. Act
is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are
its fruits. Thus does a man garner in the sweet
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and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry fought in the mind,
hath made us what we are by thought, was wrought
and built. If a man's mind hath evil thoughts, pain
comes on him as comes the wheel the ox behind.
If one endure in purity of thought, joy follows him
as his own shadow. Sure man is a growth by
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law and not a creation by artifice, and cause and
effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm
of thought as in the world of visible and material things.
A noble and godlike character is not a thing of
favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued
effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association
with godlike thoughts. An ignoble and vestual character, by the
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same process, is the result of the continued harboring of
groveling thoughts. Man is made or unmade by himself. In
the armory of thought. He forges the weapons by which
he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which
he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength
and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought,
man ascends to the divine perfection. By the abuse and
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wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of
the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades
of character, and man is their maker and master of
all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul, which have
been restored and brought to light in this age. None
is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence
than this, that man is the master of thought, the
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molder of character, and the maker in shaper of condition,
environment and destiny, as a being of power, intelligence, and love,
and the lord of his own thoughts. Man holds the
key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming
and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what
he wills. Man is always the master, even in his
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weaker in most abandoned state. But in his weakness and
degradation he is the foolish master who miscoverns his household.
When he begins to reflect upon his condition and to
search diligently for the law upon which his being is established,
he then becomes the wise master, directing his energies with
intelligence and fashioning his thoughts to fruitful issues. Such is
the conscious master, and man can only thus become by
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discovering within himself the wild laws of thought, which discovery
is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience.
Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained.
And man can find every truth connected with his being
if he will dig deep into the mind of his soul,
and that he is the maker of his character, the
molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny.
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He may unerringly prove if he will watch, control and
alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others,
and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect
by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing his every experience,
even to the most trivial everyday occurrence, as a means
of obtaining the knowledge of himself, which is understanding wisdom. Power.
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In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute,
that he that seeketh thendeth, and to him the knocketh,
it shall be opened. For only by patience, practice, and
ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the
Temple of knowledge effect of thought on circumstances. Man's mind
may be likened to a guard, which may be intelligently
cultivated or allowed to run wild. But whether cultivated or neglected,
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it must and will bring forth. If no useful seeds
are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed
seeds will 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 and fruits which he requires,
so may a man tend the garden of his mind,
weeding out all the wrong, useless and impure thoughts, and
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cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right useful
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 in mind elements operate
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in the shaping of his character. Circumstances and destiny. Thought
and character are one, and his 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
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so intimately connected with some vital thought element within himself
that for the time being they are indispensable to his development.
Every man is where he is by the law of
his being. The thoughts which he has built into his
character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of
his life. There is no element of chance, but all
is the result of a law which cannot err. This
is just as true of those who feel out of
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harmony with their surroundings as of those who are contented
with them. As a progressive and evolving being, man is
where he is that he may learn, that he may grow.
And as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance
contains for him, it passes away and gives place to
other circumstances. Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as
he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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But when he realizes that he is a creative power,
and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds
of his being, out of which sircumstances grow, he then
becomes the rightful master of himself. That circumstances grow out
of thought. Every man knows who has, for any length
of time practice self control and self purification, for he
will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has
been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So
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true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself
to remedy the defects in his character and makes swift
and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours that which
it loves and also that which it fears. It reaches
the height of its cherished aspirations, it falls to the
level of its unchastened desires. And circumstances are the means
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by which the soul receives its own. Every thought seeds
sown or allowed to fall into the mind and to
take root. There produces its own blossoming sooner or later
into act and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity. In circumstance,
good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. The
outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world
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of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are
factors which make for the ultimate good of the individual.
As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both
by suffering and bliss following the inmost desires aspirations, thoughts
by which he allows himself to be dominated. Pursuing the
willow the wisps of impure imaginings, or steadfastly walking the
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highway of strong and high endeavour, a man at last
arrives at their fruition and fulfillment in the outer conditions
of his life. The laws of growth and adjustment everywhere obtains.
A man does not come to the almshouse or the
jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by
the pathway of grobbling thoughts and base desires. Nor does
a pure minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress
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of any mere external force. The criminal thought had long
been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of
opportunity revealed its gathered power. Circumstance does not make the
man it reveals into himself. No such conditions can exist
as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from
vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness,
without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations. And man, therefore,
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as the lord and master of thought, is the maker
of himself, the shaper and author of environment. Even at birth,
the soul comes to its own and through every step
of its earthly pilgrimage, it attracts those combinations of conditions
which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own
purity and impurity, its strength and weakness. Men do not
attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step,
but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their
own food, be it foul or clean. The divinity that
shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very
self only himself. Manacles, man thought in action are the
jailers of fate. They imprison, being base. They are also
the angels of freedom, they liberate, being noble. Not what
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he wishes in praise for does a man get, but
what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only
gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts. As
in the light of this truth, What then, is the
meaning of fighting against circumstances? It means that a man
is continually revolting against an effect without while all the
time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart.
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That cause may take the form of a conscious vice
or an unconscious weakness, but whatever it is, it stubbornly
retards the efforts of its possessor, and thus calls aloud
for remedy. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but
are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound the
man who does not shrink from self crucifixion can never
fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
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This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things.
Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth
must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he
can accomplish his object, and how much more so he
who would realize a strong and well poised life. Here
is a man who is wretchedly poor. He is extremely
anxious that his surroundings and home comfort should be improved,
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Yet all the time he shirks his work and considers
he is justified in trying to deceive his employer on
the ground of the insufficiency of his wages. Such a
man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles
which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not
only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but
is actually attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by
dwelling in and acting out indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.
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Here is a rich man who is the victim of
a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony.
He is willing to give large sums of money to
get rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his
gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich
and unnatural vince and have his health as well. Such
a man is totally unfit to have health, because he
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has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.
Here is an employer of labor who adopts crooked measures
to avoid paying the regulation wage, and in the hope
of making larger profits, reduces the wages of his workpeople.
Which a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity. And when
he finds himself bankrupt, both as regards reputation and riches,
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he blames circumstances, not knowing that he is the sole
author of his condition. I have introduced these three cases
merely as illustrative of the truth that man is the causer,
though nearly always is unconsciously of his circumstances, and that,
whilst aiming at a good end, he is continually frustrating
its accomplishment by encouraging thoughts and desires which cannot possibly
harmonize with that end. Such cases could be multiplied and
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varied almost indefinitely. But this is not necessary, as the
reader can if he so resolves, trace the action of
the laws of thought in his own mind and life,
And until this is done, near external facts cannot serve
as a ground of reasoning. Circumstances, however, are so complicated.
Thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness
very so vastly with individuals, that a man's entire sole condition,
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although it may be known to himself, cannot be judged
by another from the external aspect of his life alone.
A man may be honest and certain directions, yet suffer privations.
A man may be dishonest in certain directions yet acquire wealth.
But the conclusion usually formed that the one man fails
because of his particular honesty and that the other prospers
because of his particular dishonesty is the result of a
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superficial judgment, which assumes that the dishonest man is almost
totally corrupt and the honest man almost entirely virtuous. In
the light of a deeper knowledge and wider experienced, such
judgment is found to be erroneous. The dishonest man may
have some admirable virtues which the other does not possess,
and the honest man obnoxious vices which are absent in
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the other. The honest man reached the good results of
his honest thoughts and acts, he also brings upon himself
the sufferings which his vices produce. The dishonest man, likewise
garners his own suffering and happiness. It is pleasing to
human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtue.
But not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter
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and impure thought from his mind, and washed every sinful
stain from his soul, can he be in a position
to know and declares that his sufferings are the result
of his good and not of his bad qualities. And
on the way to yet, long before he has reached
that supreme perfection, he will have found working in his
mind in life, the great law which is absolutely just,
and which cannot therefore give good for evil evil for good.
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Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back
upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is
and always was justly ordered, and that all his past experiences,
good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving
yet unavalved self. Good thoughts and actions can never produce
bad results. Bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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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 effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is
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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 object in burning
gold after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly
pure and enlightened being could not suffer. The circumstances which
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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 thought.
A man may be cursed and rich, he may be
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blessed in 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. Indigence and indulgence are
the two ex feaans of wretchedness. They are both equally
unnatural and the result of mental disorder. A man is
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not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and
prosperous being, and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result
of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer
of the man with his surroundings. A man only begins
to be a man when he ceases to whine and
revile and commences to search for the hidden justice which
regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to
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that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the
cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong
and noble thoughts, ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins
to use them as aids to his more rapid progress
and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and
possibilities within himself. Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle
in the universe. Justice, not injustice, is the soul and
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substance of life, and righteousness not corruption, is the molding
and moving force in the spiritual government of the world.
This being so, man has but to right himself to
find them. The universe is right, and during the process
of putting himself right, he will find that as he
alters his thoughts towards things in other people, things and
other people will alter towards him. The proof of this
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truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of
easy investigation by systematic introspection and self analysis. Let a
man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished
at the rapid transformation it will affect in the material
conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be
kept secret, but it cannot. It rapidly crystallizes into habit,
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and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial thoughts crystallize into habits
of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution
and disease. Impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating
and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances.
Thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly,
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and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence,
and slavish dependence. Lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness
and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary.
Hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize in the habits of accusation
and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury and persecution.
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Selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self seeking,
which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing. On the
other hand, beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize in the
habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and
sunny circumstances. Pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and
self control, which solidify into circumstances of repose. In peace,
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thoughts of courage, self reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits,
which solidify into circumstances of success, plenty, and freedom. Energetic
thoughts crystallize in the habits of cleanliness and industry, which
solidify into circumstances of pleasantness. Gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize
into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances.
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Loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self forgetfulness
for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding
prosperity and true riches. A particular train of thought persisted in,
be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its
results on the character in circumstances. A man cannot directly
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choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and
so indirectly yet surely shape his circumstances. Nature helps every
man to the gratification of the thoughts which he most encourages,
and opportunities are presented which will most speedily bring to
the surface both the good and evil thoughts. Let a
man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world
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will soften towards him and be ready to help him.
Let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and
lo opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid
his strong results. Let him encourage good thoughts, and no
hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.
The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of
colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you
are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever moving thoughts.
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So you will be what you will to be. Let
failure find its false content in that poor word environment,
but spirit scorns it and is free. It masters time,
It conquers space it caused that boastful trickster chance, and
bids the tyrant circumstance on crown and fill a servant's place.
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The human will, that force unseen, the offspring of a
deathless soul, can hew away to any goal. The walls
of granite intervene. Be not impatient in delays, but wait
as one who understands. When spirit rises and commands. The
gods are ready to obey effective thought on health and
the body. The body is the servant of the mind.
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It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be
deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts,
the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay. At the
command of glad and beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with
youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health like circumstances are rooted
in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body.
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Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man
as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing
thousands of people just as surely, though less rapidly. The
people who live in fear of disease are the people
who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and
lays it open to the entrance of disease. While in
pure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will soon shatter
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the nervous system. Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up
the body in vigor and grace. The body is a
delicate and plastic instrument which responds readily to the thoughts
by which it is impressed. And habits of thought will
produce their own effects, good or bad. Upon it. Men
will continue to have impure in poisoned blood so long
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as they propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean heart
comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of
a defile mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.
Thought is the thought of action, Life and manifestation. Make
the fountain pure, and all will be pure. Change of
diet will not help a man who will not change
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his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he
no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts, make clean habits.
The so called saint who does not wash his body
is not a saint. He who has strengthened and purified
his thoughts does not need to consider the malevolent microbe.
If you would protect your body, guard your mind, if
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you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment,
despondency rob the body of its health and grace. A
sour face does not come by chance. It is made
by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion,
and pride. I know a woman of ninety six who
has the bright, innocent face of a girl. I know
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a man well under middle aged whose face is drawn
into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a
sweet and sunny disposition, the other is the outcome of
passion and discontent. As you cannot have a sweet and
wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely
into your rooms. So a strong body and a bright,
happy or serene countenance can only result from the free
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admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill
and serenity. On the faces of the aged, there are
wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thought,
and others are carved by passion. Who cannot distinguish them
with those who have lived righteously. Age is calm, peaceful,
and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently
seen a philosopher on his deathbed. He was not old
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except in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as
he had lived. There is no physician like cheerful thought
for dissipating the ills of the body. There is no
comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief.
And sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion,
and aid is to be confined in a self made prisonhole.
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But to think well of all, to be cheerful withal
to patiently learn to find the good in all such
unselfish thoughts of the very portals of heaven, and to
dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every
creature will bring a bounding peace to their possessor thought
and purpose. Until thought is linked with purpose, there is
no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority. The bark of thought
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is allowed to drift upon the ocean of life. Aimlessness
is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for
him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction. They
who have no central purpose in their life fallen easy
prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self pityings, all
of which are indications of weakness, which lead just as
surely as deliberately plan sends, though by a different route
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to failure. Unhappiness and loss, for weakness cannot persist in
a power evolving universe. A man should conceive of a
legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it.
He should make this purpose the sun centralizing point of
his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal,
or it may be a worldly object according to his
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nature at the time being, but whichever it is, he
should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which
he has set before him. He should make this purpose
his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment,
not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings,
and imaginings. This is the royal road to self control
and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again
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and again to accomplish his purpose, as he necessarily must,
until weakness is overcome, the strength of character gained will
be the measure of his true success, and this will
form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a
great purpose should fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance
of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear.
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Only in this way can the thoughts be gathered and focused,
and resolution and energy be developed. Which being done, there
is nothing which may not be accomplished. The weakest soul,
knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength
can only be developed by effort and practice, will thus,
believing at once begin to exert itself and adding effort
to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will
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never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by
careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts
can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to
think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those
strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the
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pathways to attainment, who make all conditions serve them, and
who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. Having conceived
of this purpose, a man should mentally mark out a
straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right
nor the left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded.
They are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line
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of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual. Useless Thoughts of doubt
in fear never accomplished anything, and never can They always
lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all
strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in. The
will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and
he who encourages them, who does not slay them forwarts
himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt and
fear has conquered failure. His every thought is allied with power,
and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome. His
purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth
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fruit which does not fall prematurely to the ground. Thought
ally fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows
this is ready to become something higher and stronger than
a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. He
who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder
of his mental powers. The thought factor in achievement. All
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that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve,
is the direct result of his own thoughts. In a
justly ordered universe, 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,
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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
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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 hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is, amongst an
increasing few, a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say,
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one man is an oppressor 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 power of the oppressor. A perfect love,
seeing the suffering which both states entail, condemns neither. A
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perfect compassion embraces both oppressor and oppressed. He who has
conquered weakness and has put away all selfish thoughts belongs
neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free. A man
can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by
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refusing to lift up his thoughts. Before a man can
achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his
thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, in order
to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness by any means,
but a portion of it must at least be sacrificed.
A man whose first thought is best to indulgence could
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neither think clearly nor plan methodically. He could not find
and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking.
Not having commenced to manfully control his thoughts, he is
not in a position to control affairs and to adopt
serious responsibilities. He is not fit to act independently and
stand alone, but he is limited only by the thoughts
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which he chooses. There can be no progress, no achievement
without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be in
the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts 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 he becomes, the greater will be his success, the
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more blessed and enduring will be his achievements. The universe
does not favor 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 ages 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
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lifting up his thoughts. Intellectual achievements are the result of
thought consecrated to the search 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 those characteristics. They are the natural
outgrowth of long and arduous effort and of pure and
unselfish thoughts. Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations.
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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 in the
moon its full become wise and noble in character, and
rise into a position of influence and blessedness. Achievement of
whatever kind is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought.
By the aid of self control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and
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well directed thought of man as sin by the aid
of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought, a
man descends. A man may rise to high success in
the world, and even to lofty altitudes in the spiritual realm,
and again descend into weakness and wretchedness by allowing arrogant, selfish,
and corrupt thoughts to take possession of him. Victories attained
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by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many
give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back
into failure. All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or
spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are
governed by the same law, and are of the same method.
The only difference lies in the object of attainment. He
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who would accomplish little must sacrifice little. He who would
achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly
must sacrifice greatly. Visions and ideals, the dreamers are the
saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained
by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and
sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions
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of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers. It
cannot let their ideals fade and die. It lives in them.
It knows them as they realities which it shall one
day see and know. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage.
These are the makers of the afterworld, the architects of heaven.
The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring,
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humanity would perish. He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a
lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it.
Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds in
a wider universe, and he revealed it. Buddha beheld the
vision of a spiritual world, of stainless beauty and perfect peace,
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and he entered into it. Cherish your visions, Cherish your ideals,
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty
that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your
purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions,
all heavily environment. Of these. If you but remain true
to them, your world will at last be built. To
desire is to obtain. To aspire is to achieve. Shall
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man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and
his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance. Such is
not the law. Such a condition of things can never obtain.
Ask and receive, dream lofty dreams, And as you dream,
so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of
what you shall one day be. Your ideal is the
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prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The greatest
achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in
the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul,
awaking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. Your
circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so.
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If you but perceive an ideal and strive to reach it,
you cannot travel within and stand still without. Here is
a youth, hard pressed by poverty and labor, can find
long hours in an unhealthy workshop, unschooled and lacking all
the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things.
He thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty.
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He conceives of mentally builds up an ideal condition of life.
The vision of a wider liberty and a larger scope
takes possession of him, unrest urges him to action, and
he utilizes all his spare time and means, small though
they are, to the development of his latent powers and resources.
Very soon, so altered has his mind become that the
workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so
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out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out
of his life. As a garment is cast aside, and
with the growth of opportunities which fit the scope of
his expanding powers, he passes out of it. Forever. Years later,
we see this youth as a full grown man. We
find him a master of certain forces of the mind,
which he wields with worldwide influence and almost unequal power.
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In his hands, he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities.
He speaks, and lull lives are changed. Men and women
hang upon his words and remold their characters and sunlike
he becomes the fixed and luminous center round which innumerable
destinies revolve. He has realized the vision of his youth.
He has become one with his ideal. And you, too,
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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
your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or
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rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will
become as small as your controlling 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
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being stains on your fingers, And then and there shall
pour up 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 Master. And after a time he
shall say, I have nothing more to teach you. And
now you have become the master who did so recently
dream of great things while driving sheep. You shall lay
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down the saw on the plain 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 of fortune and chance.
Seeing a man grow rich, they say, how lucky he is.
Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, how highly favored he is,
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and noting the saintly character and wide influence of another,
they remark how chance aids him at every turn. They
do not see the trials and failures and struggles which
these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience.
Have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of
the undotted efforts they have put forward, of the faith
they have exercised that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable
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and realize the vision of their heart. They do not
know the darkness and the heartaches. They only see the
light and joy, and call it luck. They do not
see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the
pleasant goal and call it good fortune. Do not understand
the process, but only perceive the result and call it chance.
In all human affairs, there are efforts and there are results,
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And the strength of the effort is the measure of
the result. Chance is not Gifts. Powers, material, intellectual, and
spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort. They are thoughts, completed, objects, accomplished,
visions realized. The vision that you glorify in your mind,
the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, This you
will build your life. By this you will become serenity.
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Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
It is the result of long and patient effort in
self control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience
and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws
and operations of thought. A man becomes calm in the
measure that he understands himself as a thought evolved being,
For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the
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result of thought. And as he develops a right understanding
and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of
things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases
to fuss in human worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.
The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows
how to adapt himself to others, and they, in turn
reverence his spiritual strength and feel that they can learn
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of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a
man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his
power for good. Even the ordinary traitor will find his
business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self control
and equanimity, For people will always prefer to deal with
a man whose demeanor is strongly equable. The strong, calm
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man is always loved and revered. He is like a
shade giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering
rock in a storm. Who does not love a tranquil heart,
a sweet, tempered, balanced life. It does not matter whether
it rains or shines, or what changes come to those
possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm.
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That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity, is
the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.
It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold,
yeah than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money seeking
looks in comparison with a serene life, a life that
dwells in the ocean of truth, beneath the waves, beyond
the reach of tempests, in the eternal calm. How many
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people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all
that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy
their poise of character and make bad blood. It is
a question whether the great majority of people do not
ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of
self control. How few people we meet in life who
are well balanced, who have that ex exquisite poise which
is characteristic of the finished character. Yes, humanity surges with
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uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about
by anxiety and doubt. Only the wise man, only he
whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and
the storms of the soul obey him. Tempest tossed souls.
Wherever ye may be, under whatsoever conditions you may live,
know this. In the ocean of life, the isles of
blessedness are smiling, and the sunny shore of your ideal
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awaits your coming. Keep your hand firmly upon the helm
of thought. In the bark of your soul reclines the
commanding master. He does but sleep wake him self. Control
is strength, Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Say
unto your heart, peace be still. Pigeon Publishing House, Presented
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