Master Your Thoughts and Reap The Rewards: Your Thoughts Create the Life You Live

Food for thought today is a poem by James Allen's from his exquisite As A Man Thinketh in the chapter on Effects of Thoughts on Circumstances. This is to be sipped and savoured and reflected upon. 

I have been rereading this 5-page chapter every day for weeks now and every time I do, I gain a new understanding. It is all about mastering your thoughts and reaping the considerable rewards - a happy and prosperous life.

You will be what you will 

Let failure find its false content

In that poor word "environment"

But spirit scorns it, and is free.

It masters time, it conquers space

It cows that boastful trickster, Chance

And bids the tyrant, Circumstance

Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

The human Will, that force unseen

The offspring of a deathless soul

Can hew a way to any goal

Though walls of granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay

But wait as one understands

When spirit rises and commands

The gods are ready to obey.

Isn't this poem flavourful; it packs one helluva punch too!

There is no such thing as failure; learn from it and try again. You fail when you stop trying, so keep on regardless of what others may say or the way things may seem.

Because as I am learning every day, appearances and the so-called reality are deceiving; do not buy into it. Keep the faith and stay focussed on your goal, no matter what!

You make your own luck and if you want a thing bad enough nothing can stop you. Decide what you need, take action no matter how small and persevere until it's yours through the challenges you will face.

When you act on your "feelings" or intuition that is called inspired action and as Bob Proctor often says "that's the Universe talking". Follow it!