THINK do not live in any high or real sense. THINKING
MAKES THE MAN."
So we learn from these great sources of wisdom
throughout the ages that our THOUGHTS build our lives
and in a very real sense our THOUGHTS ARE OUR
LIVES.
THOUGHTS are the building blocks of our
lives and thoughts build upon themselves, for as George
Sala wrote, "Thought engenders thought... the more
you think, the better you will express yourself."
THOUGHTS are the building blocks of PER-
SONAL POWER.
Emerson states categorically, "THOUGHTS
rule the world."
Clergyman William Ellery Channing wrote,
"Secret study, silent THOUGHT, is the mightiest agent
in human affairs. What a man does outwardly is but the
expression and completion of his inward THOUGHT."
Henrich Heine, the much-quoted German poet,
tumed to concise prose to make it clear that, "The men of
action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of
the men of THOUGHT."
And back to Emerson, who deeply believed in
the power-force of THOUGHT, "There is no THOUGHT
in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into
a power.
Jonathan Edwards emphasized it, "The ideas
and images (THOUGHTS) in men's minds are the invis-
ible powers that constantly govern them."ii