We Grow Into That Which We Admire.

All Day Long The Thoughts That Occupy Your Mind, Your Secret Place, As Jesus Calls It, Are Moulding Your Destiny For Good Or Evil; In Fact, The Truth Is That The Whole Of Our Life’s Experience Is But The Outer Expression Of Inner Thought. Now We Can Choose The Sort Of Thoughts That We Entertain. It Will Be A Little Difficult To Break A Bad Habit Of Thought, But It Can Be Done. We Can Choose How We Shall Think—in Point Of Fact, We Always Do Choose—and Therefore Our Lives Are Just The Result Of The Kind Of Thoughts We Have

What We Experience Is Our Own Concept Of Things. That Is Why No Two People See Quite The Same World, And Why, In Many Cases, Different People See Such Different Worlds. To Put It Another Way, We Make Our Own World By The Way In Which We Think; For We Really Do Live In A World Of Our Own Thoughts.

Here's An Experiment: For One Whole Day Think, Speak, And Act Exactly As You Would If You Were Absolutely Convinced Of The Truth Of The Statements That God Has All Power And Infinite Intelligence, And That His Nature Is Infinite Goodness And Love. To Think In This Manner All Day Will Be The Most Difficult Thing, Because Thought Is So Subtle. To Speak In Accordance With These Truths Will Be Easier, If You Are Vigilant. To Act In Accordance With Them Will Be The Easiest Part, Although It May Require Much In The Way Of Moral Courage.

You Are Not Happy Because You Are Well. You Are Well Because You Are Happy. You Are Not Depressed Because Trouble Has Come To You, But Trouble Has Come To You Because You Are Depressed. You Can Change Your Thoughts And Feelings, And Then The Outer Things Will Come To Correspond, And Indeed There Is No Other Way Of Working.

A Tragic Mistake That Is Often Made Is To Assume That The Will Of God Is Bound To Be Something Very Dull And Uninviting, If Not Positively Unpleasant. Consciously Or Not Some Persons Look Upon God As A Hard Taskmaster, Or A Severe Parent. . . . The Truth Is That The Will Of God For Us Always Means Greater Freedom, Greater Self-expression, Newer And Brighter Experience, Wider Opportunity Of Service To Others-life More Abundant.