Kindle Notes & Highlights
In short, destiny is what we meet in life; the attitude we meet it with and the action we take is our free will.
There are thus three outlets through which our energy is lost – regrets of the past, unintelligent anxieties of the future, and feverish excitements in the present.
Imagine the mind to be made up of soft matter. As each thought passes through it, an impression, like a scratch, is left on it. When similar thoughts are repeated, the small scratch deepens into a canal. Every subsequent thought has a tendency to flow through that ready-made thought canal. Thus, if the impression or the canal, was produced by good thoughts, then a good character is maintained and strengthened by the subsequent thoughts flowing irresistibly in that direction.
Man has to be delivered from his own misconception of himself.
