The Art Of Life Is To Live

All Day Long The Thoughts That Occupy Your Mind, Your Secret Place, As Jesus Calls It, Are Moulding Your Destiny For Good Or Evil; In Fact, The Truth Is That The Whole Of Our Life’s Experience Is But The Outer Expression Of Inner Thought. Now We Can Choose The Sort Of Thoughts That We Entertain. It Will Be A Little Difficult To Break A Bad Habit Of Thought, But It Can Be Done. We Can Choose How We Shall Think—in Point Of Fact, We Always Do Choose—and Therefore Our Lives Are Just The Result Of The Kind Of Thoughts We Have

What We See In The Outer Is But A Reflection Of The Inner, Because We Surround Ourselves With A Picture Of Our Own Beliefs. In Other Words, We Manifest In General What We Seriously Think And Believe. So If We Want To Find Out What Our Habitual Thinking Is Like, We Have But To Look Around Us And Ask Ourselves What We Really See.

Your Fixed Convictions Concerning The Things That Really Matter Mold Your Destiny.

There Is A Place For Analysis, But It Is Apt To Be Quite Fatal In Prayer And Meditation. Do Not Dissect The Love Of God, But Feel It. Do Not Dissect Divine Intelligence, But Realize It. Do Not Wonder How God Can Possibly Solve This Problem, But Just Watch Him Do It In His Own Way-and He Will If You Will Give Him A Chance. You Know That God Is Love. So Go Ahead On That, And Do Not Get Theoretical About It.

A Tragic Mistake That Is Often Made Is To Assume That The Will Of God Is Bound To Be Something Very Dull And Uninviting, If Not Positively Unpleasant. Consciously Or Not Some Persons Look Upon God As A Hard Taskmaster, Or A Severe Parent. . . . The Truth Is That The Will Of God For Us Always Means Greater Freedom, Greater Self-expression, Newer And Brighter Experience, Wider Opportunity Of Service To Others-life More Abundant.