The body is the servant of the mind.It obeys the operations of the mind,whether they deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.Disease and health,like circumstances,are rooted in thought.Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body.Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a built and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly.The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it.Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and lays it open to the entrance of disease while impure thoughts,even if not physically indulged,will sooner shatter the nervous system.Strong, pure,and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace.The body is a delicate and plastic intrument,which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed and habits of thought will produce their own effects,good or bad,upon it.Men will continue to have impure and poisoned blood,so long as they propagate unclean thoughts.Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body.Out of a difiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.Thought is the fount of action,life and manifestation,make the fountain pure,and all will be pure.Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts when a man makes his thoughts pure,he no longer desires impure food.Clean thoughts make clean habits.If you would perfect your body,gaurd your mind.If you would renew your body,beautify your mind.Thoughts of malice,envy and disappointment,despondencly,rob the body of its health and grace.A sour face does not come by chance it is made by sour thoughts.Wrinkles that mar are drawn by fully,passion and pride.As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms,so strong body and a bright,happy or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles made by sympathy others by strong and pure thought,and others are carved by passion ;who cannot distinguish them?With those who have lived righteously,age is calm,peaceful and softly mellowed,like the setting Sun.
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with good will for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow to live continually in thoughts of ill will! Cynicism,suspicion and envy is to be confined in a selfmade prison hole.But to think well of all,to be cheerful with all,to patiently learn to find the good in all such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven,and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart,and set out to accomplish it.He should make this puspose the centralizing paint of his thoughts.It may take the form of a spiritual ideal,or it may be a worldly object,according to his nature at the time being whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object he had 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,longings 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 must untill weakness is over come-the strength of character gained will be measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
The weakest soul knowing its own weakness and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice will thus believing at once begin to exert itself and adding effort to effort, patience to patience and strength to strength,will never cease to devolp and will at last grow devinely strong
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with good will for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow to live continually in thoughts of ill will! Cynicism,suspicion and envy is to be confined in a selfmade prison hole.But to think well of all,to be cheerful with all,to patiently learn to find the good in all such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven,and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart,and set out to accomplish it.He should make this puspose the centralizing paint of his thoughts.It may take the form of a spiritual ideal,or it may be a worldly object,according to his nature at the time being whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object he had 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,longings 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 must untill weakness is over come-the strength of character gained will be measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
The weakest soul knowing its own weakness and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice will thus believing at once begin to exert itself and adding effort to effort, patience to patience and strength to strength,will never cease to devolp and will at last grow devinely strong
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