Course VIII - Teaching 4: Mental Task

It is good for man to give rise to luminous thoughts and illuminate his way.
A thought initially emitted for selfish purposes shall yield fruits of the Dead Sea, with pretty appearance but ashy taste, however man works and tries to beautify and dignify externally his thought.
That is why certain works succeed and other works fail.
As one starts a work, the first thought has to be of unselfish love, universal fraternity and personal renunciation; our work shall succeed and yield fruits in abundance despite obstacles against our labor and even despite our defective action.
The thought is ever the leader and the work is the goal.
Doubtless, an arrow will hit the exact point when one throws it properly. Once you threw it, who can stop it?
Neither his confession of past faults nor his openly transformed pious life nor a jump from one shore to another nor from one way of living to another is the first reformation of man.
His reformation begins as soon as he emits a loving thought and subsequently other thought until he forms the habit of thinking well.
Clear though waves nobly emitted shall wash away gradually magnetic waves of those thoughts badly emitted.
This is the only valuable reformation that is called “living in heaven”.
As man thinks rightly, he acquires such a magnetic force that he wins and overcomes in all.
The star of human destiny does not change but its shine depends upon his thoughts.
Truly wicked men are those with wicked thoughts.
Wrong actions entail their punishment and a man acting wrong unduly pays for his fault.
Truly wicked men are those who do not dare to do evil and constantly cherish bad wishes behind a mask of honesty and kindness.
They show a special, characteristic seal on their foreheads, which differentiates them from others.
How many times we are told, “I do not know why but I dislike this person!”
Those who think deviously are more and more tied to a fate of darkness and ignorance, while men of right thinking forcefully get rid from their own freedom and conquer the right of human happiness through their free will.
Good thoughts become a habit that is power; and the latter is effective and steady happiness.
His continuous desire of possession makes man think deviously and this is why being closed in a circle of narrow and mean ideas, he remains trapped like in a prison.
Inadvertently, he loses totally what he wants to attain because he tries to get an infinitesimal portion of what he desires.
He discovers the secret of the true possession only when he thinks well because he who gives all his possessions possesses all: friends, bread, means and necessary comfort.
To think well is to stay on the Good Path.