Watch your thoughts: They become your words.
Watch your words: They become your actions.
Watch your actions: They become your habits.
Watch your habits: They become your character.
Watch your character: It becomes your destiny.
(randomly e-mailed to me from Change your Mind, Change the World. A message that needs to be shared.)
EDIT:Originally by Frank Outlaw, Thanks Beth
EDIT:It appears that no one really knows who came up with this. I’m with JD, it’s what the message is point to which is most important here.
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I find this poem attributed to Frank Outlaw on three other sites.
Hello, Frank Outlaw is a play on words for outright thief. He did not write this message, I did. I did not assign the name someone else did. I wanted it to stay anonymous because I was reading from “The Teaching of Buddha” the day it was written. Refer to page 330 in the book- One of the first statements is “Right thought”. I wrote this in 1993 on a onelist group when they were fighting and wishing terrible things towards others. This was written from inspiration and I had no right to claim it as my own. However, no one else should either.
Dear Beth
These words where written some years before 1993. Have you ever heard of “The Talmud”...
I was looking for the author’s name to this very wise pointer. I seemed to recall that it was some 3,000 years old, came out of the East, but can not remember the name. What a surprise, though not really knowing the human condition, that someone other than the original author would put his name to it. It would be good to acknowledge the true author and yet it really is of only matter. The truth lies in the direction of the words that are used to point to that direction and the author, simply the messenger.
It is an example of folk spirituality and the origin does not really matter. After all, would you ask for the name, height, weight, and hair color of the archer who has shot you with an arrow? It just needs to be practiced just as the arrow needs to be removed.
While I personally subscribe to the theory of thoughts lead to destiny, I would like to add my own spin that a destiny that is well-executed (for better or for worse) will also affect others:
A powerful destiny will affect the character of others.
A powerful character will affect the habits of others.
A powerful habit will affect the actions of others.
A powerful action will affect the words of others.
A powerful word will affect the thoughts of others.