Thoughts to Build On

But, some say that appearances are misleading.
And so they are-sometimes-if we judge by physical ap-
pearances only. Many people have been known to change
their characters and personalities more rapidly than nature
can change the outward physical manifestations of their
new selves. So the novices in character and personality
judgment often are misled, as novices usually are in every
field.
Life, nonetheless, is an accurate mirror. But it
is much more than the usual plate-glass mirror in which
we see ourselves every day. The mirror of life shows not
only our outer appearances, as we have created them, but, it
reveals our inner selves-our characters, our mental depths
and emotional stabilities, our personality traits and degrees
of magnetism.
It is the sum total of our outer and inner selves
which makes up our real reflections in life's mirror-which
are more than visual reflections, but are auras which can
be sensed as well as seen.
If this were only a matter of observing our real
selves as we have created them, it would be merely an
interesting and revealing phenomenon. But it is much more.
It is the creator of our destinies!
We not only become the sum total of every-
thing we have thought, experienced and done in our past,
but in so becoming, our natures determine our responses
to events which constitute our lives.
It simply is a chain of causes and results. What
we think, feel and do, causes us to be what we are. And