As a being of thought, your dominant mental attitude will determine your condition in life. It will also be the gauge of your knowledge and the measures of your attainment.  The so-called  limitations  of  your  nature  are  the  boundary  lines  of your thoughts; they are self-erected fences, and can be drawn to a narrower circle, extended to a wider, or be allowed to remain.  You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive echoes of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears. If your dominant mental attitude is peaceable and lovable, bliss and blessedness will follow you; if it be resistant and hateful, trouble and distress will cloud your pathway. Out of ill-will will come grief and disaster; out of good-will, healing and reparation.  You  imagine  your  circumstances  as  being  separate  from  yourself,  but  they  are intimately related to your thought world. Nothing appears without an adequate cause. Everything that happens is just. Nothing is fated, everything is formed. As  you  think,  you  travel;  as  you  love,  you  attract.  You  are  today  where  your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts, but you can endure and learn, can accept and be glad.  You will always come to the place where your love (your most abiding and intense thought)  can  receive  its  measure  of  gratification.  If  your  love  be  base,  you  will come to a base place; if it be beautiful, you will come to a beautiful place.  You can alter your thoughts, and so alter your condition. Strive to perceive the vastness and grandeur of your responsibility. You are powerful, not powerless. You are as powerful to obey as you are to disobey; as strong to be pure as to be impure; as ready for wisdom as for ignorance. You can learn what you will, can remain as ignorant as you choose. If you love knowledge you will obtain it; if you love  wisdom  you  will  secure  it;  if  you  love  purity  you  will  realise  it.  All  things await your acceptance, and you choose by the thoughts which you entertain.