Your Mental Attitude

As a being of thought, your dominant mental attitude will determine your
condition in life. It will also be the gauge of your knowledge and the
measures of your attainment. The so‐called limitations of your nature are
the boundary lines of your thoughts; they are self‐erected fences, and can
be drawn to a narrower circle, extended to a wider, or be allowed to

remain.

You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of
yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your
character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your
life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive echoes of your

thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears.

If your dominant mental attitude is peaceable and lovable, bliss and
blessedness will follow you; if it be resistant and hateful, trouble and
distress will cloud your pathway. Out of ill‐will will come grief and

disaster; out of good‐will, healing and reparation.

You imagine your circumstances as being separate from yourself, but they
are intimately related to your thought world. Nothing appears without an
adequate cause. Everything that happens is just. Nothing is fated,

everything is formed.

As you think, you travel; as you love, you attract. You are today where
your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts
take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts, but you can endure

and learn, can accept and be glad.

You will always come to the place where your love your most abiding and

(intense thought) can receive its measure of gratification. If your love be
base, you will come to a base place; if it be beautiful, you will come to a

beautiful place.

You can alter your thoughts, and so alter your condition. Strive to
perceive the vastness and grandeur of your responsibility. You are
powerful, not powerless. You are as powerful to obey as you are to disobey;
as strong to be pure as to be impure; as ready for wisdom as for ignorance.
You can learn what you will, can remain as ignorant as you choose. If you
love knowledge you will obtain it; if you love wisdom you will secure it;
if you love purity you will realise it. All things await your acceptance,

and you choose by the thoughts which you entertain.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant
thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise
thoughts. No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No
man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself. By the
noble Gateway of Pure Thought you can enter the highest Heaven; by the

ignoble doorway of impure thought you can descend into the lowest hell.

Your mental attitude towards others will faithfully react upon yourself,
and will manifest itself in every relation of your life. Every impure and
selfish thought that you send out comes back to you in your circumstances
in some form of suffering; every pure and unselfish thought returns to you

in some form of blessedness. Your circumstances are effects of which the

cause is inward and invisible. As the father‐mother of your thoughts you
are the maker of your state and condition. When you know yourself, you will
perceive, that every event in your life is weighed in the faultless balance
of equity. When you understand the law within your mind, you will cease to
regard yourself as the impotent and blind tool of circumstances, and become

the strong and seeing master.

Let Yourself Enjoy

Let yourself be.  Let yourself enjoy.

Let yourself see and participate, know and feel, listen and understand.  Let
yourself live the brilliant richness that shines through even the smallest
details of this very time and place.

Let go of the worries, the fears, the grievances, insecurities and
inhibitions.  Simply and lovingly live the beauty of this day.

Without judgment as to whether it is difficult or easy, popular or
unpopular, do what you know is right, and what you feel is right for you.  Let
yourself be curious, in awe, inspired and in love with the ineffable
reality of existence.

Live authentically as the unique person you really, truly are.  Allow the
fulfilment that naturally comes when you let all you do come from the best
of who you are.

Let yourself be joyful, and generous with your joy, just because you can,
and just because it feels so good.  Right now, let yourself live in the
best, most positive way you can imagine.

In Each Challenge

In each challenge is great opportunity.  So step forward, meet the
challenge, work persistently through it, and make the opportunity yours.

It may be difficult, complicated, inconvenient, and demanding.  And you are
wonderfully able to deal with all that, to create a valuable outcome.

There are plenty of excuses you could make, and yet you know the excuses
have no real value.  There will be times when you feel like quitting, and
yet in every case you know you can overcome the desire to quit with
your perseverance and positive enthusiasm for seeing it through.

You’ve successfully endured every challenge in your life so far, and you
certainly have what it takes to successfully take on even bigger
challenges. You are able to make a difference, and the more you make use of
that ability, the stronger it grows.

Though many things will go wrong, you know from experience that even in
adversity there is much value to be gained.  Each obstacle makes the
eventual achievement all the more rewarding.

You know you are able to deal with challenges, so put that ability to
meaningful and rewarding use.  Step forward, meet the challenges, and bring
your dreams and goals into manifestation.

#RockOn

Welcome The Criticism

There is no law that says you have to be hurt by criticism.  In fact, you
can choose to thrive on it.

No, you don’t want to intentionally offend people or do foolish things.  But
there’s no reason why you ever have to let anyone else’s opinion of you
affect you in any way.

It’s nice to have positive feedback.  Yet it can be far more useful and
instructive to receive negative feedback.

It is good to know what you’re doing right.  Yet the biggest potential for
improvement comes when you understand what you’re doing wrong.

Instead of being defensive or resentful about the criticism you receive, be
appreciative.  If someone has a problem with you, let it be that person’s
problem and let it be your gain.

You are absolutely worthy, apart from what anyone else may think, and fully
capable of continual improvement.  Welcome the criticism and the
opportunities it brings, and use it to make each day, each effort, each
experience even better than the one before.

#RockOn