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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Mastery of Faith by Christian D. Larson, published in 1908.

What you are and what you do determines in what conditions, circumstances, and environments

you shall be placed, and since you can change yourself in your

actions, you can determine what your fate is to be. To change yourself, you must change your

thought, because you are as you think, and to change your actions, you must change the purpose of your life,

because every action is consciously or unconsciously, inspired by the purpose you hold in view.

To change your thought, you must be able to determine what impressions are to form in your mind, because

every thought is created in the likeness of a mental impression.

To choose your own mental impressions, you must learn to govern the objective senses and

acquire the art of original thought.

Everything that enters your mind through the physical senses will produce impressions upon the mind unless prevented by original thought.

These impressions will be direct reflections of the environment from whence they came.

And since your thoughts will be created in the exact likeness of these impressions,

so long as you permit the environment to impress your mind,

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