A good beginning is our best and safest method for happiness later in life.
When we start out on our earthly journey through life, we are like a blank page; nothing has been written there and all possibilities may be ours. True, destiny may have much in store for us, but we ourselves are the writers who put down, through our feelings and desires, the daily reaction to all that comes our way.
We expand, we draw out always what is innate or within the embryo. Nothing can be added from without for all is already there within and can be drawn upon at our will.
The early influences, environment and training are all important, for it is through this that the deepest impressions of life and how it is lived are formed. We all learn more from example than we do from mere talk. Words have no meaning for us, but actions do, and it is in this way that we educate the child mind. We either put trust, security and confidence into a young mind or its opposite -- fear, distrust and insecurity. So we all have [been given] a great trust in rearing the young, and we must not let them down.
As a knife whittles deep into wood, each thought penetrates the mind, molding it into whatever pattern the mind fashions. True, when greater understanding comes to us in adult years, we can change and remold the character to one of greater strength and stability. But how much easier it is to start correctly and, with positive faith and assurance, bring up a child to eliminate the negative conditions and go forth into the light with better equipment to fight life’s battles than he would otherwise have.
A good beginning is our best and safest method for happiness later in life.
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