governed
absolutely by mind, or law. In our lives
of conditions we are the cause, and nothing
moves except as our mind moves it.
The
activity of our mind is thought. We are
always acting because we are always thinking.
At all times we are either drawing things
to us or we are pushing them away from
us. In the ordinary individual this process
goes on without his ever knowing it consciously,
but ignorance of the law will excuse no
one from its effects.
"What,"
someone will say, "do you think that
I thought failure or wanted to fail?"
Of course not. You would be foolish to
think that; but according to the law which
we cannot deny, you must have thought
that failure might come, or in some way
you gave gave it entrance to your mind.
Thinking
back over the reason for things, you will
find that you are surrounded by a mind,
or law, that casts back at the thinker,
manifested, everything he thinks. If this
were not true, man would not be an individual.
Individuality can mean only the ability
to think what we want to think.
If that thought is to have power in our
lives then there has to be something that
will manifest it. Some are limited and
bound by law through ignorance. This law
is sometimes called "Karma,"
it is the law that binds the ignorant
and gives freedom to the wise.
We
live in mind; and it can return to us
only what we think into it. No matter
what we may do, law will always obtain.
If we are thinking of ourselves as poor
and needy, then mind has not choice but
to return what we have thought into it.
At first this may be hard to realize,
but the truth
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