You are what you think. Whatever you store in your mind and heart reflects your being. Not only does this reflects your being and your inner world but also begins to reflect in the form of your external conditions and circumstances. Plainly speaking, what you think, you are, and all this is product of adding all your thoughts together.
When you plant a tree you know this tree grows from a seed, without the seed there would be no tree. In a similar way that is how your thoughts grow, your thoughts would simply not grow and develop without planting the seed, in even simpler terms, without the seed the thoughts could not exist. You can decide what your seed is made out of, negative thoughts that don’t help you or positive thoughts that not only help you but even go beyond. Whatever actions you take are like a flower is to the tree, or your thoughts. Whatever feelings of happiness or affliction you have within you, those are the fruits. You can harvest good fruit or bad fruit depending on how you choose to grow it. However we grow our thoughts then, that is what we become. Our thoughts in our mind make us. If you have negative thoughts in your mind, pain will follow you everywhere you go. If you carry on with positive thoughts, happiness and bliss will follow you like your own shadow follows you in a bright day.
Growth is our nature; you cannot create growth by deception but throughout what you experience in life. You are a conscious being whose purpose on this earth is to grow. An enlightened individual is not made by chance or given to by preference of someone else. An enlightened individual is made naturally by the products of attaining the necessary knowledge and continuous effort in positive thinking, the result then is awareness and enlightenment. By the same process, the continuous cultivation of negative thoughts leads to a closed-minded and blinded individual. You make or break yourself. In your mind you develop, build, construct the weapons used to destroy your own self, but you also develop and create the tools to build yourself a house of happiness, harmony, peace, and strength. When you make the decision to choose a path of positive thinking where you will grow and apply the new knowledge you acquire as you go along, you will reach awareness on the true excellence within yourself in a powerful and divine way. By choosing to abuse and cultivate the path of negative thinking, you will sink yourself in a hole where you will also only drag yourself deeper and down to a very low level. Realize then, between these two examples, that you were given the greatest tool of them all, your mind, and hence are your own maker of your life.
There are many things pertaining to who we really are that we buried throughout our evolution as we slowly became creatures of routine in the modern world. But this is changing now, and I have started to see this almost lost awareness starting to rise again in our age. Among the greatest of awareness starting to rise is that you are a creator and master of thought but the destructor as well, you make and shape your environment, circumstances, events, situations, conditions and from all that…Your own destiny.
You always have this power, despite your worst moment of weakness and negative state, the only difference is that you become less aware of it and are prone to making the wrong turns in life. But if you are in a deep negative state and begin to think deeply about your condition reflecting on why you are there, you begin to question and search for the solutions which will eventually allow you to realize your true self and the nature of your being.
Whoever sets him or she on a continuous search of self-discovery will find it, and those who find it will then be able to use it. It is only through search that you will be able to discover yourself. Your mind is very much like a garden. You can cultivate it strategically and intelligently or you can ignore it and let it go to chance. It doesn’t matter which way you choose to let it run whether neglected or cultivated by natural law it will bring results either way. If you choose to neglect it and don’t chose good seeds to put in the soil, all you will start and continue to get is a bunch of weeds, those will not be useful to you. As you let it run wild and without control all you will see are more and more useless weeds. That is not the purpose of a garden.
As you keep cultivating it, you will discover that you are the primary master of your garden, and with that, your own being. You will discover that you direct your life. You will also learn how the laws of thinking work and as you learn the laws of thought understand how to use that knowledge to your growth and benefit, how to change your life to a positive way allowing you to define your environment, circumstances, events and your destiny.
Every thought you allow to sink into your mind and plant itself there like a seed will grow to produce its own blossoms and will then create its fruits according to its nature depending on what the thought is, if it’s positive thoughts you will get good fruits, if its negative thoughts will produce bad fruit. Your environment on the outside is given shape to from your inner world of thinking. Positive and negative conditions on the outside add to the vital good of yourself; and it works the same for others. Because we are all responsible for what we produce, and we also learn from suffering and harmony.
Your circumstances are difficult to understand as your thoughts are almost hard-wired in your mind not to mention the variations of happiness is so large with individuals that the condition of your being can hardly be judged by someone else coming from an external view of himself only. You can be sincere and honest in some things but experience hardships and deprivations; you can also be dishonest in some things alike but get your hands on wealth and get good things. The beliefs that arise as a result of this is that you fail because you were being honest, or that you prosper because you were dishonest, but these beliefs are superficial which then leads to the beliefs that if you are insincere are then completely corrupt or that if you are sincere are exclusively respectable.
As you strive for excellence you will find within your mind and life a great law of the universe that is just and cannot give good for bad or bad for good. Once you are aware of this knowledge, you will now look to your past to all your ignorance and how you walked blind, that your life has been and was always just, realizing that all your past experiences and circumstances whether positive or negative were evenly handed due to your developing yet undeveloped being. Positive thoughts and actions will never create negative results and negative thoughts and actions can never create good results. All this means is that you cannot create something else other than apples from apples or corn from corn, sure you can create a tortilla, but corn it remains, and all of us understand this by nature of our reality but only a few understand it from a our mind world.
