THOUGHT AND CHARACTER

The Book of Proverbs (23:7) proclaims, “ As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” This adage reaches out to every condition and circumstance of human endeavour. Each of us literally what we think, our character being the complete sum of all our thoughts.
As the plant springs from and could not be without the seed, so every one of our acts 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 that are deliberated executed.
Action is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruit, thus do we garner in the sweet and bitter harvest of our own plantings. are what we think we are. If our mind has evil thoughts, we will suffer pain; if our thoughts are pure, joy will follow.
Human growth is a natural phenomenon and not a creation by artifice. Cause and effect is a absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favour or chance but is the natural result of continuous efforts and right thinking the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thought. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts.

We are made or unmade by ourselves. By our thoughts, we forge the weapons by which we can destroy ourselves. Likewise, we also fashion the tools with which we build for ourselves heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, we ascend to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, we descend below the level of the best. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character.
We are our own maker and master.
Think positive thoughts.......
to be continued..