THE world around, both animate and inanimate, wears the aspect with which your thoughts clothe it. " All that we are is the result of what we have thought ; it is founded on our thoughts ; it is made up of our thoughts." Thus said Buddha, and it therefore follows that if a man is happy, it is because he dwells in happy thoughts; if miserable, because he dwells in despondent and debilitating thoughts. Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without. And now I seem to hear a chorus of voices exclaim, " But do you realty mean to say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds ? " I do not say that, but I say this, and know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can only affect you in so far as you allow them to do so. You are swayed by circumstances because you have not a right understanding of the nature, use, and power of thought.
Posted By: Earl Brown
Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 10:15PM
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