May 12 2008
Take Charge of Your Thoughts They Have Power
You own the power to choose each experience in your life. No, you cannot stop tragedies from happening but, how you look and deal with the effects of undesirable events in your life is your choice. You can choose whether to hold on or to let go of a life that is not working out for you. It does not have to be as drastic as disappearing & physically abandoning your current life, but it can be as simple as changing how you see things.
There was once a tale about a man who became discontented with his life in his city. He always managed to find something to complain about his family, his neighbors, his co-workers and the government. So he decided to go out into the world and find another city that will be more to his liking.
He found one in the east. He stopped at the city gate & asked a man, “What kind of people live in this city?” The man smiled and answered, “The people here are happy, peace-loving, diligent, generous & kind.” “That sounds wonderful,” thought the discontented man. So he settled in.
He hasn’t lived there a full week and he already made a list of the negative things he noticed about the city. He has complains for just about anything & anyone. So he left again & soon found another city, this time in the west. As before, he asked about the kind of people who lives there. And as before, he received a promising response. He moved into the city, but in no time at all he was discontented again. So he left again & soon found another.
As it happened a wise old man was sitting by the city gate. He seemed happy & at peace. The discontented man asked him, “What kind of people live in this city?” The wise old man smiled at him & replied, “It depends on the kind of person you are.”
In the Power Through Constructive Thinking (HarperCollins), Emmet Fox said,
Consciously or unconsciously you have yourself at some time or other produced every condition desirable or undesirable that you find in either your bodily health or your circumstances today. You and you alone, ordered those goods; and now they are being delivered. And as long as you go on thinking wrongly about yourself and about life, the same sort of difficulties will continue to harass you. For every seed must inevitably bring forth after its own kind, and thought is the seed of destiny.
Invariably, it boils down to the law of attraction. So before you criticize & complain about others, take the time to examine your thoughts. You might be sending the wrong signals that is why you always seems to be attracting the wrong people or situations. You can blame others all you want for the rest of your life, but you will still be miserable. So be responsible for your thoughts, words & actions. Plant the seed of perfection in your mind & it will soon invade your whole life. It will attract more of the same & all you will ever see is the divine perfection in yourself, in others & everything around you. Such is the law.
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