As A Man Thinketh

his sufferings are the result of his good, and not of his bad qualities;

every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself

will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition.

a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.

If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;"