Creating Good

If I accept my mind as being truly creative and having genuine power in my life, then the state of my life is dramatically affected by my inner beliefs, by what I have accepted to be truths about myself and my world. What a sobering thought. I, by my thinking and through my attitudes, profoundly influence and shape my life. I want to think that this is New Age psycho-babble, but something in me has already observed this process at work. The changes that I have made for the better began first in my mind – originated as a thought that there might be a better way.

I will take seriously what goes through my mind.

Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

Paramahansa Yogananda