The aphorism, "Aa a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive that it reaches out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his chattan being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called "spontaneous" and "unpremediated" as to those, which are deliberately executed.
Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; this does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
Man is growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause-and-effect is absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.
A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts.
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