The body is the servant of the mind.
It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or
automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks
rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts,
it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. 16
Disease and health, like
circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves
through a sickly body. 16
The people who live in fear of
diseases are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body
and lays it open to the entrance of disease. 16
Strong, pure and happy thoughts build
up the body in vigour and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument,
which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of
thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it. 16
Men will continue to have impure and
poisoned blood, so long as they propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean
heart come a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceed a
defiled life and a defiled body. 16
Thought is the fount (source) of
action, life and manifestation; make the fount pure and all will be pure. 16
Change of diet will not help a man
who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no
longer desires impure food… Clean thoughts make clean habits. 16-17
If you want to perfect your body,
guard your mind. If you want to renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts
of malice, envy, disappointment, and despondency rob the mind of its health and
grace. 17(paraphrased)
A sour face does not come by chance;
it is made by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar (the face) are drawn by folly,
passion, pride. 17
As you cannot have a sweet and
wholesome abode (house) unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your
rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only
result from the free admittance into the body of joy and goodwill and serenity.
17
[On the faces of the age there are
wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thought, and others are
carved by passion…] With those who have lived righteously, age is calm,
peaceful, and softly mellowed like the setting sun. 17
There is no physician like cheerful
thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare
with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. 17
To live continually in thought of
ill-will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self-made
prison hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently
learn to find the good in all – such unselfish thoughts are the very portals
(gateways) of heaven. 17
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