Happiness stems from a way of thinking and not from any external factor. Your emotions and their resultant effects are not controlled by outward conditions, but by your inner direction of them. As much as you would like to believe that your state of health is determined by things outside yourself, you have now been told by leading authorities that even 100% of your physical ailments, in many respects, have their origin in the way you think.
It might be said that each thought you have, good or bad, is a seed that is planted in fertile soil and grows and produces fruit according to the basic idea imbedded in it. Regardless of the nature of your present experience in daily living, in some way or other you can trace that experience back to a thought-seed that you have planted and nourished within your own consciousness!
Yes, thoughts are things. So, if you find that your life is not all that you would have it be, it becomes necessary to change your patterns of thinking. You need to uproot those undesirable thoughts you have planted and replace them with others more to your liking.
This may sound simple, and it is. But in order to do this there needs to be an understanding of who you are, what you are, and the nature of the universe in which you live. The world in which you live does operate in a harmonious and lawful manner. And it is only by understanding the laws of life that you may be able to cooperate with them and use them to your advantage rather than disadvantage.
To make full and constructive use of the axiom "Thoughts are things" requires that you come to realize that there is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and that you can use It. This Power can and does always respond to you, but only in the manner in which you actually use It, not in the manner you would just like to have It respond.
The material in this volume can show you the wav to so relate yourself to the great spiritual Power in the Universe that you may come to think in a creative and constructive manner so that the things in your life are outward manifestations of your inner thoughts which you have learned to properly control and direct.

