We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

Somos lo que pensamos. Todo lo que somos surge con nuestros pensamientos. Con nuestros pensamientos, hacemos nuestro mundo. BUDA

With our thoughts we make the world.

The Dhammapada, a collection of sayings of the Buddha, begins: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts.” This is, in effect, the same statement that opens St. John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… All things were made by him (the Word), and without him was not anything made that was made.” By thoughts, or mental words, we distinguish or “make” things. Without thoughts, there are no “things”; there is just undefined reality.

WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT

We become what we think about.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. — BUDDHA

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

The fact that seems to underlie this exhortation is that we become what we think about.

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

You become what you think about