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POWER OF THOUGHTS
POWER OF THOUGHTS
The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves …. All that
a man achieves or fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
….James Lane Allen
Let a
man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he; this is the
eternal mystery. Dwelling within his Self with thoughts serene, he will obtain
imperishable happiness. Man becomes that of which he thinks.
……
Upanishads
There
is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
….
William Shakespeare
All
that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward
thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must
think nobly.
…..
William E. Channing
Thoughts Are Living Things
Thoughts are living things. A thought is as much solid as a
piece of stone. We may cease to be, but our thoughts can never die.
Every change in thought is accompanied by vibration of its
matter (mental). Thought as force needs a special kind of subtle matter in its
working.
The stronger the thoughts, the earlier the fructification.
Thought is focussed and given a particular direction and, in the degree that
thought is thus focussed and given direction, it is effective in the work it is
sent out to accomplish.
Conservation of Thought-energy
In physics you have the term ‘power of orientation’. Though the
mass of energy is there, the current will not flow. It must be connected to the
magnet and then the electric current will flow through the power of
orientation.
Even so, the mental energy which is dissipated and misdirected
in various worthless unproductive thoughts should be well directed in proper positive
and creative channels.
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind
the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill
your mind with positive or creative thoughts. You will gain new mental strength
as the dissipated mental rays are collected now.
Thought—Its Power, Workings and Uses
Thought is a vital, living dynamic power—the most vital, subtle
and irresistible force existing in the universe.
Through the instrumentality of thought you acquire creative
power. Thought passes from one man to another. It influences people; a man of
powerful thought can influence readily people of weak thoughts.
Friend and enemy, virtue and vice are in
the mind only. Every man creates a world of good and evil, pleasure and pain,
out of his own imagination only. Good and evil, pleasure and pain do not
proceed from objects. These belong to the attitude of your mind. There is
nothing good nor pleasant in this world. Your imagination makes it so.
World—A Projection of Thought
Careful reflection will show that the entire universe is in
reality the projection of the human mind—‘Manomatram Jagat’. Purification
and control of the mind is the central aim of all Yogas. Mind in itself is but a record of impressions
that keep expressing ceaselessly as impulses and thoughts. The mind is what it
does. Thought impels you to action; activity creates fresh impressions in the
mind-stuff.
Yoga strikes at the very root of this vicious circle by a method
of effectively inhibiting the functions of the mind. Yoga checks, controls and
stops the root function of the mind, i.e., thought. When thought is
transcended, intuition functions and Self-knowledge supervenes.
Thought has the potency of creating or undoing the world in the
twinkling of an eye. Mind creates the world according to its own Sankalpa or
thought. It is the mind that creates this universe, (Manomatram Jagat;
Manahkalpitam Jagat). Through the play of the mind, a Kalpa is reckoned by
it as a moment and vice versa. Like a dream generating another dream in it the
mind having no visible form generates existent visible.
Thought-control
by Napoleon’s Method : Napoleon controlled his thoughts in this manner: “When I want
to think of things more pleasant, I close the cupboards of my mind revealing
the more unpleasant things of life, and open up the cupboards containing the
more pleasant thoughts. If I want to sleep, I close up all the cupboards of
mind!”
AS A MAN THINKETH
James
Lane Allen had long been impressed by the ancient philosophy that a men
becomes what he thinks, that a man’s character is the outward expression of his
inward thoughts. He had traced it back to the Upanishads, sacred literature of
the Hindus : “Man becomes that of which he thinks.” He had found it eloquently
expressed in the writing of Buddha : “The mind is everything; what you think
you become” …. and in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius : your life is what
your thoughts make it.” He had found the same basic idea in the writings of
Confucius, Mohammed, Aristotle, Socrates, scores of others. And he knew it, of
course, in its most familiar form- as millions did-from the Bible : “ As he
thinketh in his heart, so is he”.
All
the great teachers of every age had declared this simple truth : that a man’s
life and character are the result of his own inmost thoughts and ideals. It was
a philosophy as old as civilisation, but ever fresh and new. Surely he had
proved the truth of it in his own life, James Allen reflected. He had been very poor in his youth, had known
none of the advantages so many young men count essential. He had started out
with nothing to build on except what was within himself. But he had known what
he wanted to do and be; he had kept his dream, his ideal, everlastingly before
him; he had tried to live the life he imagined- and in the end his dream had
become a reality.
As
a man thinketh, so is he.
It
was a simple, obvious truth, he wondered how anyone could fail to see it.
People were forever complaining about things outside themselves, blaming their
condition and circumstances on everything but their own thoughts and ideas.
Didn’t they realise that they made their own ‘good fortune’ that their lives
were the result of their own thinking? Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts
bear bad fruit- and man is his own gardener.
He
became intrigued with this symbolic idea of the mind as a garden, each man
cultivating the soil and seed of his own life. It was the same ancient
philosophy, of course, but in new dress.
Following
are the paragraphs that are most frequently quoted from his book As a Man
Thinketh. They reflect the heart of the book, and essence of James Allen’s
philosophy.
“A
man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of his
thoughts.
As
the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a
man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared
without them… 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….
A
man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or
allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will,
bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless
weed-seeds will fall therein and will continue to produce their kind.
Just
as the gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing
the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his
mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and fruits of right, useful and pure
thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is
the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals,
within himself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy,
how the thought forces operate in the shaping of his character and destiny…
Man
is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature
of outside conditions, but when he realises that he is a creative power, and
that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which
circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself…..
Good
thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
A
man will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people,
things and other people alter towards him… 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.
Men
do not attract that which they want, but which they are… The divinity that
shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self …. All that a man
achieves or fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thought….. A man
can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He remains weak
and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts ….
A
man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to
accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralising point of his
thoughts …. He should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which
he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should
devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into
ephemeral fancies, longing and imaginings. This is the royal road to
self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and
again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is
overcome), the strength of character gained will form a new starting
point for future power and triumph.
Into
your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will
receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present
environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your
vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as
great as your dominant aspiration…..
The
thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects
of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.
Seeing a man grow rich, they say, “how lucky he is” Observing another become
intellectual, they exclaim, “How highly favoured he is!” and noting the saintly
character and wide influence of another
they remark, “How chance aids him at every turn!” they do not see the trials and failures and
struggles which these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their
experience; have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the
undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that
they might overcome the apparently insurmountable and realise the vision of
their heart. They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see
the light and joy, and call it “luck”; do not see the long and arduous journey,
but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it “good fortune”; do not
understand the process, but only perceive the results and call it “chance”
In
all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of
effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. ‘Gifts,’ powers, material,
intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they
are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realised.
The
vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart
– this you will build your life by. This you will become.”
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