Thought
"...Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?...
...Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-- Nelson Mandela
The New Psychology
Every thought brings into action certain physical tissue, parts of the brain, nerve, or muscle. This produces an actual physical change in the construction of the tissue. Therefore it is only necessary to have a certain number of thoughts on a given subject in order to bring about a complete change in the physical organization of a man.
This is the process by which failure is changed to success. Thoughts of courage, power, inspiration, and harmony are substituted for thoughts of failure, despair, lack, limitation, and discord; and as these thoughts, the physical tissue is changed and the individual sees life in a new light. Old things have actually passed away. All things have become new. He is born again, this time born of the spirit. Life has a new meaning for him. He is reconstructed and is filled with joy, confidence, hope, and energy. He sees opportunities for success to which he was heretofore blind. He recognizes possibilities which before had no meaning for him. The thoughts of success with which he has been impregnated are radiated to those around him, and they in turn help him onward and upward; he attracts to him new and successful associates, and this in turn changes his environment; so that by this simple exercise of thought, a man changes not only himself, but his environment, circumstances, and conditions.
-- Charles F. Haanel, The New Psychology
Speech and Thought
...Whenever possible, it must be articulated.
It must be expressed by spoken words. For speech - which is an extension and manifestation of thought - is the unique mark of the human.
Generally speaking, then, the absence of speech means absence of full human status. In that defective state one is no longer a human recipient for the Divine grace. Thus one must articulate requests with actual words - requesting as a human being who has needs and who is able to have these needs filled.
The need for verbal prayer is understood also by a more literal aspect of the speech-thought/body-soul analogy, viewing the body as a vessel or container: verbal prayer provides a 'vessel' or 'container' to receive the outpouring of the Divine grace requested.
Speech has a physical reality and makes it possible for the Divine grace to flow to the physical reality of the material world.
The spoken words thus become the instrument or intermediary through which the spiritual fulfillment of prayer can become realized on the physical level.
Thought, on the other hand, is a mental or spiritual reality. It is a mental or spiritual tool or vessel. To be sure, mental prayer, too, is 'heard'..., and it, too, draws forth a response. The answer to prayer, however, is restricted to the vessel provided; thus it will flow only to the spiritual vessel of thought, and will not become realized on a physical level.
-- J. Immanuel Schochet (link)
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