| "We are what we think. All that we are arises with | | | | All you have to do is think of what you want and |
| our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world. | | | | refuse to deviate from that thought. This will set you |
| " - Buddha | | | | into motion, stir up the magic, and unleash the full |
| "Thought is as much a thing as the favorite ring you | | | | force, power, and majesty of a Universe conspiring |
| wear on your finger. It has weight, color, shape, size | | | | on your behalf. |
| and form. Thought is a dynamic force. It is a force | | | | Anything worth having is worth working for. |
| like gravitation, cohesion or repulsion. Thought has | | | | Do you think living the life you want is worth working |
| tremendous power and can manifest desires. can do | | | | for? |
| anything, it can work wonders. "- Swami Sivananda | | | | It's worth everything you've got. So you must be |
| "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." - Jesus | | | | strong and take action. The progress might be slow |
| "The Kingdom of God is within you" - Jesus | | | | at first, but it is like learning any skill, it takes time, |
| "I and My Father are One"- Jesus | | | | practice, and discipline. At first you couldn't ride a bike |
| What is the point? | | | | and you probably fell off quite a few times. This |
| Here we have saints from three different spiritual | | | | process was very frustrating, but you kept at it. |
| traditions saying essentially the same thing. What are | | | | Soon thereafter riding a bike became easier and |
| these saints trying to tell us? They are telling us that | | | | easier until one day you were able to do it without |
| our thoughts become things and that with our | | | | thinking about it. You just did it. |
| thoughts we create our reality. | | | | Being vs. Doing |
| This means that the power we seek is within our | | | | This example illustrates the state of being vs. doing. |
| own selves; we need not look elsewhere. Every time | | | | When you were first learning to ride your bike you |
| we think a thought it is a creative event. This is so | | | | were doing. You mind was involved in analyzing and |
| because at any given time there are an infinite | | | | issuing the commands to tell you how to ride the |
| variety of different thoughts that we could choose | | | | bike. Your body was full of tension and anxiety |
| to think; when you choose to think one, you are | | | | because you were learning something new, you were |
| taking an active role in the creation of your own | | | | unsure of your abilities, and you were afraid to fall. |
| reality. | | | | This is exactly the same thing that happens when |
| This process happens whether we are conscious of it | | | | one begins to be aware of their thoughts and live |
| or not. We basically have no choice in the matter. | | | | their life as a divine creative being. |
| The only choice lies in whether or not we want to | | | | At first you are thinking, analyzing and worrying |
| become conscious of what we are doing with our | | | | about each little thing that you do. You mess up |
| thoughts. | | | | many times along the way and experience a lot of |
| We are creators whether we like it or not. | | | | frustration with minimal rewards. However if you |
| In Christianity they talk about the fall of man. This is | | | | keep at it eventually you gain mastery. Eventually |
| referring to the time when man lost sight of his | | | | there comes a day when you are you longer thinking |
| inherent divine creative abilities. This is when man lost | | | | about what you should or shouldn't do. Rather you |
| sight of his own godly nature. This is the reason you | | | | are simply doing it because that is who you are. You |
| are here. This is what you came to this earth plane | | | | are that kind of a being. |
| to remember and discover again. You were born to | | | | Just like eventually you became the kind of being |
| remember and to experience your dominion over the | | | | that could easily ride a bike, eventually you become a |
| illusion of time and space. | | | | being that creates the life they desire with their |
| What about destiny and fate? | | | | thoughts. |
| "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of | | | | This is the message that these saints are trying to |
| their own minds." - Franklin D. Roosevelt | | | | get across. The goal is not to be a person who |
| So if we are creating our reality with our thoughts, | | | | makes things happen because they think it to be. |
| then what of fate, destiny, luck, and karma? If we | | | | The goal is to become the divine, godly, and creative |
| can master our thoughts then these things will come | | | | beings that were meant to be. |
| under our control. So how do we do this? | | | | |