BACK Thoughts Are Things: The Things in Your Life and the Thoughts That Are Behind by Ernest Holmes and Willis Kinnear This Science of Mind classic can be summarized as "the things in your life and the thoughts that are behind them." The key to living a life of inner peace, contentment and fulfillment is to think in creative, positive, self-affirming ways. For, in the words of the authors, "Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it. Thoughts are things, and all the things in one's life have a thought that precedes them." Readers will learn that if they change the content and tone of the thoughts behind the things in their lives, they will permanently transform themselves and their lives--for the better.