A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

ARE YOU YOUR OWN GAOLER?

Ann you your own gaoler? Are you if or ever railing about your had luck, your restricted opportunities, your miserable conditions, your difficulties your poverty, vour few friends, your lack of love, your had health?

If so, would you he surprised to hear that you are holding yourself down to the very conditions you despise—that you are making your luck worse than ever? That you are further restrict mg your opportunities? Surely making more miserable your conditionsr Deli nicely intensifying your poverty? Lessening the love of which you yearn For more? Making your bad health positively worse? You can’t see it! At ell. that’s a pity, hut that doesn’t make any dillerence; you will feel it. You don’t believe it! AYoll, that’s also a pity, lor, it you did, you would let yourself out of the gaol you are building. The man who walks ofF a balcony in his sleep doesn’t know lie’s doing it, hut the law of grnviiation doesn’t cease to operate because he is unconscious of what lie is doing; he is injured just the same as il ho were awake and conscious of his action. It is the law, and, consciously or unconsciously, whether wo believe it or not, we build as we think. Don’t build yourself a gaol, for you cannot release yoursell until you pull Tt down again. —M. 'PRESTON STANLEY.