Precept and Practice – AUGUST 21 – Right Thinking

We should think just as though our thoughts were visible to all about us.   Real character is not outward conduct, but quality of thinking….

Whilst to some extent thought-pictures, unbidden and even unwelcome, may thrust themselves before the mind’s eye, we need not sit still and passively gaze upon them.   High, healthful, pure thinking can be encouraged, promoted, and strengthened, until it forms a habit, and lofty thinking becomes easy and delightful.

From now, guard your thoughts;  for if it is true that yesterday’s wrong thought gives birth to the trials of to-day, it is equally certain that to-day’s right thinking will generate joy for the morrow.

(Hope la Gallienne)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW