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We Live in a Boundless World of Thoughts

Thought alone is the whole world, the great pains, the old age, death and the great sin,
earth, water, fire, air, ether. Thought binds a man. He who has controlled his thoughts, is a
veritable God on this earth.
You live in a world of thoughts. First is thought. Then there is the expression of that
thought through the organ of speech. Thought and language are intimately connected. Thoughts
of anger, bitterness and malice injure others. If the mind which is the cause of all thoughts
vanishes, the external objects will disappear.
Thoughts are things. Sound, touch, form, taste and odour, the five sheaths, the waking,
the dreaming and deep sleep states—all these are the products of mind. Sankalpa, passion, anger,
bondage, time—know them to be the result of mind. Mind is the king of the Indriyas or senses.
Thought is the root of all mental process.
The thoughts that we perceive all round us are only the mind in form or substance.
Thought creates, thought destroys. Bitterness and sweetness do not lie in the objects, but they are
in the mind, in the subject, in thinking. They are created by thought.
Through the play of the mind or thought upon objects, proximity appears to be a great
distance and vice versa. All objects in this world are unconnected; they are connected and
associated together only by thought, by the imagination of your mind. It is the mind that gives
colour, shape, qualities to the objects. Mind assumes the shape of any object it intensely thinks
upon.
Friend and enemy, virtue and vice are in the mind only. Every man creates a world of
good and evil, pleasure and pain, out of his own imagination only. Good and evil, pleasure and
pain do not proceed from objects. These belong to the attitude of your mind. There is nothing
good nor pleasant in this world. Your imagination makes it so.