Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.