Article April 30, 1966 Issue

Do You Accept or Do You Challenge?

HELEN OAKLEY ROCKHOLD

The fact that consciousness determines our experience is fairly generally accepted today. In other words, our thinking is objectified in our environment and experience. Hence the important questions for each one of us are these: Of what am I conscious—truth or error, fact or fable, health or disease, abundance or lack, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness? Is my thinking positive or negative? Is it joyous or gloomy?

What determines the character of our lives is not so much the circumstances we meet each day as the mental attitude with which we meet these circumstances. Each moment of each day do we accept or do we challenge what is presented to our consciousness?

We have the mental ability to agree or to disagree with what confronts us, to admit thoughts into our mental home as welcome guests or to thrust than out as unwelcome intruders. This verse from the Old Testament is worthy of consideration: "Hear. O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." ^{ Jer. 6:19;}

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