Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.
Interpretation
The quote encourages individuals to let go of past mistakes to focus on living a better life today.
James Allen emphasizes that it is essential not to become bogged down by the regrets and errors of the past. Instead of allowing yesterday's sins to drain your energy and adversely affect your present life, you should concentrate on making the right choices in the current moment. Allen reassures us that our past does not define our ability to live a pure and fulfilling life today.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and resilience.
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
Tell troth and shame the devil.
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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