Thought, emotion, and action must be unified in purpose and intent. There must
be no conflict between them, or we will find ourselves in a position where one
will negate the good in the others. We must intellectually accept the truth of
our affirmations of good, we must emotionally embody and feel them, live them
right now, and our every act must demonstrate that we know that they are
actualities. It makes no difference if they are on the spiritual level at the
present moment---they have to be there first in order to ever be any place
else. -- Ernest Holmes on "Avoid Civil War"
Everything starts with thought.
Revisiting familiar thoughts and feelings creates a loop that we spin in. Our
memories make up our internal environment. When we think from our past
memories, we can only think from our past experiences. What we've _memorized_
becomes our future experience, and so our environment ends up controlling our
minds. We are creators of the loop, but we can practice the _art of being
greater than our environment, body, and time._
Greatness is holding fast to a dream without regard to the environment. We
change our brains when we start to think differently. When we are single-
minded, the brain doesn't know the difference between the internal and the
external.