Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom and prosperity, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, a superior kind of animal, you will remain in bondage—in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
Since you are a mental being, you will see how foolish it is for you to endeavor to improve your conditions by altering your environment while leaving your mind unchanged. To attempt this is to foredoom yourself to disappointment. Mind is cause, and experience is effect. If you do not like the experience or effect that you are getting, the obvious remedy is to alter the cause and then the effect will naturally alter too.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. (Matthew 23:26).
The happy corollary to this truth is that when we change within, everything in our reality yields to that change. Think we can’t change the world? Well, we can by changing our minds. It may not have a direct impact on people in China, but it will most certainly impact our universe. And that changed universe could very well affect the entire world. Simply look at the impacts individual humans like Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Gandhi and Albert Einstein caused by what was within them. Control the mind and control our reality. Change the mind; change the world.
Mind tending,
Z gardener
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