Thoughts to Build On

his new home on top of a lofty mountain. Because he
believed in a greater destiny, he knew he was not a chicken,
confined to a dirty chicken yard. Because he believed-his
belief released his real powers. He now lived on the highest
pinnacle and soared through the bright, blue sky as the
proud symbol of courage and freedom-the American
Eagle!
The most powerful forces of nature are the
invisible ones: heat, sound, wind, electricity, gravity-just
as the most powerful forces of man also are invisible: love,
thought, desire, belief.
In the foregoing story, as long as the eagle
believed he was a chicken, he lived and acted like a
chicken. Insofar as the eagle was concerned, he was what
he believed-a chicken. But just as soon as the eagle began
to believe he had powers and capabilities greater than a
chicken, his powers and capabilities increased to equal his
belief!
And so you can increase you own powers and
capabilities to the exact extent that you increase your
belief in them. Psychologists tell us that: "Whatever the
mind can conceive and believe, man can achieve. "The
Bible said it much earlier: "ALL things are possible for
him that believeth."
Not only can you achieve in direct proportion
to your beliefs, you actually become what you believe!
The Bible says: "As a man thinketh in his heart
(deeply believes), so is he."
Buddha taught: "ALL that we are is the result
of what we have thought (deeply believed)."