![‘As a man thinketh in his Heart, so is he’ – James Allen ‘As a man thinketh in his Heart, so is he’ – James Allen](https://unitedstill.com/wp-content/themes/_stylebook/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Funitedstill.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F02%2Fcritical-thought.jpg&q=90&w=795&zc=1)
You will be what you will be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word, ‘environment,’
But spirit scorns it, and is Free.
It masters time, it conquers space;
It cows that boastful trickster, Chance,
And bids the tyrant Circumstance
Uncrown, and fill a servant’s place.
The human Will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless Soul,
Can hew a way to any goal,
Though walls of granite intervene.
Be not impatient in delay,
But wait as one who understands;
When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.
James Allen