Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the essay,

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, published in 1903.

The world is your kaleidoscope. The varying color combinations are the exquisitely adjusted

pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.

You are literally what you think, your character being the complete sum of all your thoughts.

As the plant springs and could not be without the seed, so every action springs from the hidden seeds of thought

and could not have appeared without them.

This applies equally to those acts called spontaneous and unpremeditated,

as it does to those which are deliberately executed.

The beautiful truth is that you are the master of your thoughts, the molder of your character,

and the maker of your condition, environment, and destiny.

As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the master of your own thoughts, you hold the key to every situation

and contain within yourself that transforming and regenerative power by which you can make yourself

what you will. All of this can be proven if you begin to closely watch, control, and alter your thoughts,

tracing their effects upon yourself, upon others, and upon your life and circumstances,

linking cause and effect by patient practice and investigation,

and utilizing your every experience, even the most trivial everyday occurrence,

as a means of obtaining that knowledge of yourself which is understanding, wisdom, and power.

Your mind may be likened to a garden which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Just as gardeners cultivate a plot, keeping it free from weeds and growing the flowers

and fruits which they desire, so may you tend the garden of your mind, weeding out all the wrong,

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