Life shaped by our Mind

"Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think. That is the essence of the Buddha's universe... If we can get a hold of the thinking process, we can actually redo our personality, remake ourselves. Destructive ways of thinking can be rechanneled, constructive channels can be deepened, all though right effort and right meditation. As irrigators lad water to their fields, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters care wood, the wise shape their lives."

Eknath Easwaran
Excerpt | The Dhammapada (The Path of Truth)"