Your LIfe - Your Stage

Sunday, 28. June 2009 by Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D.

“All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” - William Shakespeare

What part have you been acting in the theater of life?  What place have you assigned to yourself on the stage?  Are you one of the lead actors?  Do you bear one of the important parts?  Or are you merely one of those standing in the “crowd” scene, off toward the side?

Though it may be hard to believe, and we may often times deny this truth - always remember that whatever part you are playing on the stage of life – it is the part you have assigned to yourself.  You are acting in the role you have cast for yourself. 

Leaders and Philosophers throughout the ages have taught this fundamental truth:

“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” – King Solomon
“According to your faith, so will it be done unto you.” – Jesus
“Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” – John Locke
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you.  You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – The Apostle Paul
“Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.” – Benjamin Disraeli

What sort of image do you hold of yourself? What kind of actor have you made yourself out to be? - For as Emmett Fox writes, “Whatever the real conviction of yourself is, that is what you will eventually realize in your life… for whatever enters your life is but the material expression of your beliefs and thoughts.”

This is true because the Law of “Cause and Effect” is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thoughts as it is in the world of visible and material things.  Our minds are the master weaver, both of our interior garment of character, and outer garment of circumstance.

The error of the ages has been the tendency of mankind to limit the power of thoughts, belief and faith – but we set limits on this power at our own demise, for as Jesus taught - according to your faith (or your mental beliefs and images), so shall it be done unto you. 

** What part have you given yourself on life’s stage?