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As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;" for

Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Renew your resolution daily, and in the hour of temptation do not depart from the right path.

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

So you will be... What you 'will' to be

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

He who masters the small becomes the rightful possessor of the great.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

They themselves are makers of themselves.

Self-seeking is self-destruction

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

THE dreamers are the saviours of the world.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.

He who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself the shaper and author of environment.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations. He

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

Chapter 2: Thought Waves and Their Process of Reproduction

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

In a justly ordered
universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

IF YOU WOULD PROTECT YOUR BODY, GUARD YOUR MIND.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought,

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

There is but one religion, the religion of Truth.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

You must get outside yourself, and must begin to examine and understand yourself.

you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

What you are, so is your world.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

All things at last yield to the silent, irresistible, all conquering energy of purpose.

You will be what you will to be.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

Thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves;

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow - sure.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With