"Allen, James - As a Man Thinketh" - читать интересную книгу автора (Allen James)

crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify
into circumstances of pleasantness. Gentle and forgiving thoughts
crystallize into habits of gentleness, which solidify into
protective and preservative circumstances. Loving and unselfish
thoughts which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding
prosperity and true riches.
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad,
cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances.
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose
his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
Nature helps every man to gratification of the thoughts which
he most encourages, and opportunities are presented which will most
speedily bring to the surface both the good and the evil thoughts.
Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world
will soften towards him, and be ready to help him. Let him put away his
weakly and sickly thoughts, and the opportunities will spring up
on every hand to aid his strong resolves. Let him encourage good
thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness
and shame. The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying
combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents
to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving
thoughts.


EFFECTS OF THOUGHTS ON HEALTH AND BODY

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the
operations of the mind, whether they be 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 bullet 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 instrument, 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 defiled 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.