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The mind has phenomenal ‘drawing power’. You are continually attracting towards you, from
both the seen and the unseen sides of life, people, forces, thoughts, influences and conditions
most in tune to those of your own thoughts.
In the realm of thought, people of similar thoughts are attracted to one another. This universal
law is continually operating whether we are conscious of it or not.
Understand the Laws of Thought

Every man should have a comprehensive understanding of the laws of thought and their
operations. He can utilize the helping forces to serve his ends in the best possible manner.
He can neutralize hostile forces or antagonistic situations. Just as the fish swims against the
current, so also he will be able to go against the hostile currents by adjusting himself properly
and safeguarding himself with suitable precautionary methods.
The alternative is that man becomes a slave to his thoughts. He is tossed about helplessly by
various currents. He is like driftwood on a river, a ship without a rudder. He may be miserable
and unhappy, although he may be wealthy and possesses everything.

Understanding the laws of Thought, you can mould or shape your character in any way you like.
The common saying, “As a man thinketh so he becometh,” is one of the great laws of thought.
Think you are pure, pure you will become. Think you are noble, noble you will become.

Become an embodiment of good nature. Think good of all. Always do good actions. Serve,
love, give. Make others happy. Then you will reap happiness. You will get favourable
circumstances or opportunities and environments.
If you hurt others, if you gossip, scandal or mischief monger, backbite, tell tales, if you exploit
others, if you acquire the property of others by dishonest means, if you do any action that can
give pain to others, you will reap pain. You will get unfavourable circumstances or opportunities
and environments.

This is the law of thought and nature. Just as you can build your good or bad character by good
or bad thoughts, so also you can shape your favourable or unfavourable circumstances by
doing good or bad actions.

By his good thinking, by watching the nature of his thoughts, by introspection, by active noble
thinking, a man of discrimination builds his noble character, forms his high destiny. He is careful in
his choice of words. He speaks little. He speaks sweet loving words. He never utters any kind of
harsh words that can affect the feelings of others.
He develops patience, mercy and universal love. He speaks the truth.

He prepares himself to always get favourable circumstances. The man who spreads happiness
will always get such favourable circumstances as can bring him happiness. He who spreads
pain to others will, without doubt, attract by the law of thought unfavourable circumstances
that may include misery and pain. Man creates his own character and circumstances, by the
manner of his own thinking.

Bad character can be transformed into good one, by good thoughts, and unfavourable
circumstances can be changed into favourable circumstances by doing good actions.
Improve the quality of your thinking
Human beings are mental organisms. Everything we are or ever will be, will be as the direct result
of the way we think. If we improve the quality of our thinking, we must improve the quality of our
lives. And, there is no other way to do it.

In tests given to children ages 2 - 4 years, 95% of the children were found to be highly creative
with curious, questioning minds and an ability for abstract thought.