CONSTITUTION OF MAN 125

learnt to control our thoughts and bring them
into subjection ; a practice which few of us have
even thought about, much less tried to acquire.
In realising that our thoughts are not our own
but sent broadcast all over the world to be
picked up by any receiver which can take hold
of them, we get rather a start, a disagreeable
awakening, for too well do we know that our
thoughts are not always those which we should
wish to share even with our best and dearest.
I do not, of course, mean that other people
whom I have called receivers are aware where
the thought comes from, but that each thought
has its power, and its influence is a very
potent fact. Any person who habitually thinks
pure, good and strong thoughts is a power for
good in the world, and is of immense use to his
neighbours who may be able to respond
unconsciously to his uplifting thoughts; but it
works both ways, and if the thoughts are of the
contrary nature, the influence is the same and
proportionately he makes it more difficult for his
neighbour to think and produce thoughts of love
and purity.

Man is a complex being within and without,
and he cannot separate himself from his fellows.
This makes life another complexity, for our
dependence on and our association with each