Your Thought Is Your Life

These paragraphs were taken from Chapter 7 (page 73 and 74) of Discover the Power Within You, A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within by Eric Butterworth. Published by HarperCollins Publishers.

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God's greatest gift to man [human-kind] is the power of thought, through which [humans] he can incorporate into [their] his consciousness the mind of God. Charles Fillmore

We are living in an age of discovery....It is estimated that man's [humankind's] total body of knowledge doubled between 1775 and 1958, and it is now thought to be doubling every five years.

This is a tribute to man's [human] curiousity and his [its] relentless quest for understanding. But it is important to recognize that discoveries in the world around us are really self-discoveries. We do not create the growing body of knowledge. [Humans are] Man is simply gaining insights into that which has always been. Nothing has really changed in the nature of the Universe in the past two thousand years, but we have opened our eyes to see things more completely.

Locked within the superconsciousness of [humans] man are the answers to all the problems and the secrets of all the mysteries that [humankind] mankind will ever face. [Humans are] Man is (a) thinking being[s]. The very word "man" comes from an ancient Sanskrit word which literally means "to think." Through thinking, [humans have] man has the possibility of knowing God and expressing the wisdom of Divine Mind. [Humans are] Man is the greatest concentration of divine energies in the Universe. [Humans are] He is the greatest natural resource. And the world of possibilities within [humankind] man is still the great frontier.

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(I find these paragraphs very inspiring except that I would like to change the word "man" to human or humankind. When I read the word "man" I feel like the passage is not really talking to me personally.)

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These paragraphs remind me of Stephen Hawking and all that he has accomplished just by "thinking". http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/index.html