What You Believe is What You Are

There is a universal law that is called the Law of Reaction that says in short that what you think you do. So therefore what you think is what you are, and so is your world. Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness.

However it does matter what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly to your thoughts and how you react to the circumstances that those thoughts bring about. All that you know is contained in your own experience; all that you ever will know must pass through the gateway of personal experience, and so it becomes part of yourself.

Your own thoughts, desires, and aspirations comprise your world, and, it is a uniquely individual existence. To you all that there is in the universe of beauty and joy and bliss, or of ugliness and sorrow and pain, is contained within yourself. By your own thoughts you make or mar your life, your world, your universe.

As you build within by the power of thought so will your outward life and circumstances shape themselves as a result. Whatsoever you harbor in the inmost chambers of your heart will, sooner or later by the inevitable law of reaction, shape itself in your outward life. The soul that is impure, sordid, and selfish, is gravitating with unerring precision toward misfortune and tragedy, conversely the soul that is pure, unselfish, and noble, is gravitating with equal precision toward happiness and prosperity.

Every soul attracts what is its own, and nothing can possibly come to it that does not belong to it. To realize this is to recognize the universality of Divine Law. The incidents of every human life, which both make and mar, are drawn to it by the quality and power of its own inner thoughts. Every soul is a complex combination of gathered experiences and thoughts, and the body is but a vehicle. Therefore, what your thoughts are, that is your real self; and the world around, both animate and inanimate, displays the aspect with which your thoughts give it. In short all that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts.

So it therefore follows that if a person is happy, it is because that person dwells in happy thoughts; if miserable, it is because that person dwells in despondent and debilitating thoughts. Whether a person is fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, it is within that soul that lays the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

You must understand this; and know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can only affect you in so far as you allow them to do so. You are swayed by circumstances because you do not have a right understanding of the nature, use, and power of thought. You believe, and upon this little word "belief" hangs all our sorrows and joys, for belief becomes repeated thought and that becomes action and this is what forms your world.

If you believe that outward things have the power to make or mar your life; by so doing you submit to those outward things, confess that you are their slave, and they your unconditional master; by so doing, you invest them with a power which they do not, of themselves, possess, and you succumb, in reality, not to the mere circumstances, but to the gloom or gladness, the fear or hope, the strength or weakness, which your thought-sphere has thrown around them.

If circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they would bless and harm all of us the same, but the fact that the same circumstances will be alike good and bad to different souls proves that the good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind that encounters it. When you begin to realize this you will begin to control your thoughts, to regulate and discipline your mind, and to rebuild the inward temple of your soul, eliminating all useless and superfluous material, and incorporating into your being thoughts alone of joy and serenity, of strength and life, of compassion and love, of beauty and immortality.

Think and believe, believe and think, be aware of the thoughts you allow to occupy your time, and so by doing this you will become joyful and serene, strong and healthy, compassionate and loving, and beautiful with the beauty of inner peace.

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