We become what we think about...

(Earl Nightingale, Neville Goddard, James Allen)

Earl Nightingale
Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have
disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are
in complete and unanimous agreement and the key to success and the key to failure is this...
We become what we think about
A person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because
that’s what he’s thinking about. Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t know
where he’s going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety, fear,
and worry will thereby create a life of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks
about nothing … he becomes nothing.
Neville Goddard
Talking to oneself is a habit everyone indulges in. We could no more stop talking to
ourselves than we could stop eating and drinking. All that we can do is control the nature and
the direction of our inner conversations. Most of us are totally unaware of the fact that our
inner conversations are the causes of the circumstance of our life.
We are told that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." But do we know that man's
thinking follows the tracks laid down in his own inner conversations? To turn the tracks to
which he is tied in the direction in which he wants to go, he must put off his former
conversation, which is called in the Bible the Old Man, and be renewed in the spirit of his
mind. Speech is the image of mind; therefore, to change his mind, he must first change his
speech. By 'speech' is meant those mental conversations we carry on with ourselves.
The human mind is much like a farmer’s land. The land gives the farmer a choice. He may
plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care what is planted. It’s up to the
farmer to make the decision. The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it
doesn’t care what you plant. If the farmer plants too seeds and one a seed of corn, the other
nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes care of the land, what will happen?
I rarely see a person alone without wondering, "to what conversation piece is he tied? On
what mysterious track is he walking?" We must begin to take life consciously. For the
solution of all problems lies just in this: the Second Man, the Lord from heaven in all of us,
is trying to become self-conscious in the body, that he may be about his father's business.
What are his labors? To imitate his father, to become master of the Word, master of his inner
talking, that he may mold this world of ours into a likeness with the Kingdom of Love
The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I imitate God?
Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the
unseen becomes seen
James Allen
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by
which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself
heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of
thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of
thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the
grades of character, and man is their maker and master.
Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers
and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all
the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and
fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.
By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of
his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and
understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and mind elements
operate in the shaping of his character, circumstances, and destiny.

Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it
will corn. So up come the two plants and one corn, one poison as it’s written in the Bible,
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap
1. Repetition of the same information from multiple perspectives creates absolute conviction
and faith in the thought.
2. The net result of varied thinking on the same topic, creates varied results cross-referenced
back to thought.
3. Thought is learned from the five senses of past experiences and also the sixth sense.
4. Harmonious thoughts of a definite chief aim, calibrates further thinking related to the
outcome of the definite chief aim.
5. Lack of definite chief aim can lead a person to having indecision and doubt which
crystalizes into fear to project outward and materialize fear into form.
6. A definite chief aim brought forth, reveals the true identity of the individual and a further
definite chief aim to reveal further elements of the true identity.
7. The garden of the mind bears fruit to share as service or contribution which translates into
reciprocity.
8. Current return is a result of past investment into the mind which brings forth stories within
that express outward into the theatre of life.
9. The subconscious will brings forth through instructions of the five senses or the sixth
sense.
10. We are all Imagination that impresses the subconscious mind to express outward to be
experienced via the five senses that was formed in our imagination via our inner
conversations
11. Most of our inner conversations happen unknowingly, programmed by our environment.
12. Our level of self-esteem causes an attraction to people, environment, circumstance and
information that validates the level of our self-esteem to generate the related inner
conversations that express outward to be experienced via the five senses.
13. How we think of ourself, others, environment, people and circumstance express outward
to reveal to ourself our own inner conversations and thus thoughts can't be kept secret.
14. How we feel about another person is self-personified, fragmented and expressed out via
the subconscious to reveal how we feel about ourselves.
15. As above so below. The divine is looking to manifest trough us via our definite chief
aim.
16. By changing our inner conversations, we realize that we have far more power to create
what we want without the use of force.
17. Speaking as it is so reveals to us the thoughts, emotions and actions that are related in
vivid contrast so that we may evolve them into alignment with our definite chief aim to bring
it forth.
18. We can choose to live in our animalistic state or we can ascend into higher spiritual
beings living a human existence while commanding reality with our mind to transcend our
limitations.
19. Fear based thinking limits a person to see the possibilities to evolve within which is the
genesis of the evolution of the body and world that interacts with the body.
20. Live in your imagination and navigate the world within to uncover disempowering
thoughts and replace them with empowering thoughts one by one.
21. We came here to learn how to create using the power of our mind and every moment is
both an opportunity and a school for elevating our thinking.
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