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.