Round spectacles rest on a mossy branch, reflecting a green meadow in one lens and a golden sunset in the other.

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Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

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Our interpretation.

The speaker holds that a person's identity is formed by the mind: everything one becomes begins in thought. Thinking is also presented as creative on a larger scale, since through thoughts we shape the world we experience. Inner attitude comes first, and outer reality follows from it.

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