- “As a being of thought, your dominant mental attitude will determine your condition in life. It will also be the gauge of your knowledge and the measures of your attainment. The so-called limitations of your nature are the boundary lines of your thoughts; they are self-erected fences, and can be drawn to a narrower circle, extended to a wider, or be allowed to remain.”
It is with great pleasure that we return to the inspiring wisdom of James Allen and the profound selection ‘Your Mental Attitude‘ from ‘Above Life’s Turmoil’. This is another beautiful piece of inspiration reminding us that we are the thinker of our thoughts and as such we are the maker of ourselves and our condition. And so, we have great responsibility and great power if we choose to use it and to use it rightly. Someone commented earlier that this power can be misused, and that is certainly true. It’s up to us. What others do with it, we can not control. But we can control what we do with it, what we focus on.
- “You will always come to the place where your love (your most abiding and intense thought) can receive its measure of gratification. If your love be base, you will come to a base place; if it be beautiful, you will come to a beautiful place. You can alter your thoughts, and so alter your condition.”
To use this immense power wisely, we first have to recognize that we have it. The great Teachers that we explore and study here keep reminding us of this truth, but no one does it in a way that is more inspiring and more hopeful then James Allen. Read ‘Your Mental Attitude‘ and then contemplate it, meditate on it and allow it to move you down the Path towards being the best that you can be.
- “If you love knowledge you will obtain it; if you love wisdom you will secure it; if you love purity you will realise it. All things await your acceptance, and you choose by the thoughts which you entertain.”
