Welcome to the Academy
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WE ARE WHAT WE THINKWilliam James, the late American psychologist stated that there is a law in psychology that if we form a picture in our minds of what we would like to be, and we keep and hold that picture there long enough, we will soon become exactly as we have been thinking. This is perhaps the most important mental and spiritual law ever discovered by Buddha, approximately A.D 300.Everything we see, feel, experience, sense and do is slowly but surely changing our thoughts and affecting our actions. Our thoughts are extraordinarily powerful. They control almost everything that happens to us - they can make us happy or sad, alert and aware, distracted and depressed. They can make us confident or insecure, positive or negative - a victim or a victor.Our thoughts and the actions that they trigger, can make us a success or a failure, prosperous or wretched, respected or ignored. And, as you will learn in the next sections, our thoughts and actions are completely under our own control. We can create the life we want, simply by thinking and acting the right way.Everything we are today is the result of an idea, opinion, attitude, or impression that we learned from childhood and accepted as true. When we believe something to be true, it becomes true for us, whatever the fact may be - we will become what we think about.What you think, you
become.
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"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it,
live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body,
be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.
This is the way to success." --Swami Vivekananda