Good Thoughts Bad Thoughts

Album: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (1974)
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  • Travel like a king
    Listen to the inner voice
    A higher wisdom is at work for you
    Conquering the stumbling blocks come easier
    When the conqueror is in tune with the infinite
    Every ending is a new beginning
    Life is an endless unfoldment
    Change your mind, and you change your relation to time

    You can find the answer
    The solution lies within the problem
    The answer is in every question
    Dig it?
    An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away
    Inspire yourself
    Your life is yours
    It fits you like your skin

    The oak sleeps in the acorn
    The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed
    The bird waits in the egg
    God waits for his unfoldment in man
    Fly on, children
    Play on

    You gravitate to that which you secretly love most
    You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts
    There is no chance, coincidence or accident
    In a world ruled by law and divine order
    You rise as high as your dominant aspiration
    You descend to the level of your lowest concept of your self
    Free your mind and your ass will follow

    The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers
    Its nature is to respond to your thoughts
    Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind
    For seeds grow after their kind

    Play on, children

    Every thought felt as true
    Or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscious mind
    Takes roots in your subconscious
    Blossoms sooner or later into an act
    And bears its own fruit
    Good thoughts bring forth good fruit
    Bullshit thoughts rot your meat
    Think right, and you can fly
    The kingdom of heaven is within
    Free your mind, and your ass will follow

    Play on, children
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Comments: 2

  • TimRay Davis does the vocals to this, he was the bass voice with the Parliments.
  • Ninjaandrew from Texasthe early 20th century book “As Man Thinketh” by James Allen has some nearly identical lines as George Clintons soliloquy.

    Such as the “the oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg”.

    The early novel is also referenced in Napoleon Hills “Think and grow rich”. Which could be another text that inspired this song.
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