Positive Thinking & FAITH

 

QUOTES

On Positive Thinking

The Universe is constantly listening to our thoughts.

We must learn to maintain positive thoughts in our mind,
if we want the Universe to help us.

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When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you:
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you will be taught how to fly.

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When all your efforts end in failure,
it means that you are being taught the lesson
that, not your own efforts,
but God's Grace alone can bring success.
And you should seek His Grace.

On FAITH:

Faith is the nearest English equivalent to the Sanskrit word Shraddha;

it endows us with great value in life.

It is the set of values, axioms, prejudices, and pre-possessions
that colours our perceptions, governs our thinking,

dictates our responses, and shapes our lives generally

without our even being aware of its presence and power.

Shraddha is not an intellectual abstraction;

it is our very substance.

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Bhagavd Gita - Chapter17 slokam 3:

श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः।।17.3।।

"As a person's faith is, so is he"

     The Bible, using similar words, says:

     "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

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There is nothing passive about Shraddha.

It is full of potency.

For it prompts action, conditions behaviour, and

determines how we perceive and thus
respond to the world around us.

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The power to heal or harm is inherent in our ideas of ourselves.

Yet Shraddha is not brute determination or wishful thinking.

Our lives are an eloquent expression of our beliefs of

what we deem worth having, doing, attaining, being.

What we strive for shows what we value.

We back our Shraddha with our time, our energy, our very lives.

Thus Shraddha determines destiny.

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As the Buddha put it:

"All that we are is the result of what we thought.
We are made of our thoughts,

We are moulded by our thoughts."

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As we think, so we become.

yat bhaavam tat bhavati