What makes a person good?

From: Barsenas , Posted Date: Jul 12th, 2011

What makes a person good? All of us are sinful from birth and none of us is perfect. However, by looking at some people you see and feel bad things emanating from them and when you look and speak with others you feel optimism, goodness and love coming from them. Even though there is some egoism in all of us, if we adopt good thoughts in our minds they make us better people. And if we meditate on evil thoughts, they would definitely make us evil.

Very often people are shocked when they see some ‘honorable and calm’ person suddenly performing the worst act of immorality. They do not understand how he or she was capable of doing that. One thing that they do not know is that the person seldom does something terrible spontaneously without previously thinking about it. If a person suddenly commits adultery, most probably he has been thinking about the thing for a long time. Most men watch filthy movies before they start doing the real thing.

And vice versa, if a person starts doing something that a lot of people benefit from, you can be almost one hundred percent sure that he has been dwelling on nice, beautiful and good thoughts for some period of time. Later the thoughts became actions.

That’s how we function! Firstly we get some thought. If we think a lot about it, it becomes ours. If we continue thinking about it for days and weeks, one day it becomes part of our nature. When it becomes part of our nature, it is only a question of time, not the ‘question of if’ when the thought will become an action. One day we will simply be not able to control ourselves and we will behave according to the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Our thoughts form us and shape our habits and finally our characters. We firstly form our habits, and then our habits start controlling us. So, if you look at yourself and you do not like the way you are, your habits, behavior, manners and etc. what can you do to make yourself better? You have to change your thoughts. A thought is the starting point for a true and long term change. It is a cause of who we are. And who we are is the effect of the cause. So, work with the cause of a thing to get better results. Hope you get my point.

More on the topic:

Inspirational thoughts
Nice thoughts