"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

If one kind is excluded, the other will present itself. If a person would avoid discordant, physical, mental, or moral conditions, let him empty his mind of all discordant thoughts which create such conditions, fill it with harmonious ones, and cultivate them.

Thinking is causative; if the discordant cause is excluded from the mind, its evil consequences will not be produced. The rule for conduct necessitated by these propositions is most obvious and simple: --

Cease thinking discordant thoughts.

This rule is an expression of the principle of renunciation, a principle as old as the race; but it strikes at the root of all human actions instead of dealing with the topmost branches and leaves, as rules generally do; and it also avoids all possible interference of one person with another.

Renunciation of evil, as expressed in numberless forms of "Thou shalt not," has been taught in one way or another from the earliest times.

The method of avoidance has always held a prominent place in ethical and moral teaching.

The two contrary aphorisms, "Avoid the wrong" and "Do the right," are bound together by a principle too strong to be broken.

Either includes the other, so that at last the two are only one, both in theory and in practice. The morality of avoidance of wrong and practice of right is so axiomatic that it instantly forces itself upon the conscience of every one who would become better himself, or who would aid others to become better.

Compliance with this rule, which goes down into the deeps of man's nature and deals with the primal causes of all human actions, will easily and thoroughly accomplish all desirable resuits.