All is the result of a law which cannot err. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to correct the problems in his thought, and makes swift and marked progress, he passes rapidly through formerly difficult problems. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations and it falls to the level of its impure desires. By this process does the mind receive its own. Every thought-seed that is sown or allowed to fall into the mind and take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruits of opportunity and circumstance.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are tools which make for the ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns from both suffering and bliss. A man does not come to the poor-house or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of low thoughts and base desires. Even at birth the mind comes into its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and impurity, its strength and weakness. Man is chained only by himself.