You Are What You Think

September 4, 2013, 2013

There are few people that we meet in the course of our lives who leave a mark in our hearts giving us a shot of a must needed energy, and the opportunity to be able to connect and touch in the hope that when the hurdles of life come in front of us that person has the tool to spring over them without any difficulties.

I believe there are not coincidences in life and that every person we meet in life has a purpose, either to help us grow or make us stronger, but nonetheless it has a reason and it is our responsibility to find it and act upon it.

As we move into another phase of your life, I thought I’d share with all of you some inside as part of a discussion I’ve had with friends many times.

It is about thought and character, the aphorism, “As a man thinketh 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 your life. You are literally what you think, your character being the complete sum of all your thoughts.

As the plant spring from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act 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 and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

“Thought in the mind hath made us, What we are

By thought was wrought and built. If 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”

Only by searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and we can find every truth connected with our being, if we dig deep into the mine of our soul; and that we are the maker of our character, the molder of our lives, and the builder of our destiny, we may unerringly prove, if we will watch, control, and alter our thoughts, tracing their effects upon ourselves, upon others, and upon our lives and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing our very experience, even to the most trivial, everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of ourselves which is Understanding, Wisdom, Power. In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute that “He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;” for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a person enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.

We can be, do or have any thing we would want in life, and, what I am giving you today is just a small part of the foundation to build up upon it, never stop searching and asking, the soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; 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 by which the soul receives its own.