Destiny

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And you choose it. No one else can give it to you or deny it to you. No rival can steal it from you. And no friend can give it to you. Others can encourage you to make the right choices or discourage you. But you choose.

Very good lesson.

very insightful

This will be a very good thing to meditate on.

Thanks

Indeed. Speaking of fate there is a saying that a man destiny to drown will never hang. So there are some parts of our lives that are bound to happen no matter what we do.

\"If humanity is not to grow sufficiently strong to become a master of the machines that it makes, the present civilization of slavery to iron wheels pounding to the rhythm of lust shall stand, indeed, condemned. But in case we can grow into a self-mastery in ourselves, sufficient to rule over the forces of nature that we have released, certainly we shall preserve our secular endowments and come to live served by them as a Sultan of Destiny.\"
-Swami Chinmayananda

The nature of food for example tranforms depending only on who consumes it. With a bull it becomes horns, with a human it becomes hair, with a fish it becomes scales... . And yet a human cannot be told to grow scales, or a fish horns... .

All of existance including forms of life which exist in our universe, carry their own individual Destiny. A stone, a plant, a creature, a planet... have their own individual Destiny. By doing so they preserve their own uniqueness.

Destiny is that which through life has accumalated inside, only to appear from inside you when it becomes active, even when you don`t expect it to.