Thought on Circumstances

A man’s mind may be likened to a Garden. His Thought and Character are one: and as Character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance. The outer condition of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

The thought forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his Character, Circumstance and destiny.

Every man is where he is by the law of his being: the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there.

Good thought bears good fruit, bad thoughts bears bad fruits.

The outer world of circumstance itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external condition are factors which make for the ultimate good of the individual.

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves it is our very self. The man who does not shrink from self crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. A man fails because of his particular honesty, and he prosper because of his particular dishonesty.

Thoughts cannot be kept secret because it rapidly cigstallizes into habit and habit solidifies into circumstance.

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

“You will be what you will to be;

Let failure find its false content

        In that poor word, environment,

But Spirit scorns it, and is free.

        The human Will, that force unseen;

        The offspring of a deathless soul,

        Can hew a way to any goal

        Though walls of granite intervene

Be not impatient in delay,

But wait as one who understands;

When spirit rises and commands,

The gods are ready to obey”