Within You Is the Power

You are the architect of your own life: it is yours to make or to mar. By the power of thoughts, you are building; are you building aright? The power of thought, as Emerson says, is a spiritual power. It is the greatest power that man has at his disposal. The world today is in its present state simply as a result of mankind's collective thinking; each nation is in its present state of either peace and prosperity, or poverty, murder and anarchy, simply as a result of its thinking as a nation; and each individual is what he is, and his life is what it is, and his circumstances are what they are, simply as results of his thoughts. What a man thinks, he becomes; what a man thinks, is the mainspring of all his actions; what a man thinks, attracts to him his circumstances and environment; what a man thinks, determines what type of friends and companions will gather around him; what a man thinks, decides whether he shall be happy or miserable, successful or unsuccessful, healthy or unhealthy,