What thinketh thou?

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. What are you thinking right now? Yep, that slipperly thought that simply frolicked through your mind. It aroused several images in your head, some of them made you laugh, others rejoiced in the fact that no other creature could see what goes on in that head of yours. Isn't it amazing? You smile politely 'Morning Mrs X' meanwhile that head of yours ripped her open and feasted on what her features might look like. I can bet that you have a 97.9% guess accuracy by now and with any luck and further training, you will experience what you have envisioned.
Isn't it sad however? You are the parish priest afterall, the morality preacher or that 'looking/sounding perfectly sane man'. Many look up to you and you know it. You are at the forefront of pertinent issues today, the vanguard of our pressing for a better world. Still you encourage such indiscipline in your members.
Why did you take that trip? 'i needed to see first hand, the effect of our contributions to improving the lives of the less privileged!' You protest. Wasn't it to avoid having that conversation with your wife? To claim expenses you really didnt incur? To indulge in some wild thrills? 'enjoy the fruits of your labour' as you like to call it.

You've had it properly planned. What you'd tell the wife, what you'd say to the firm to let you go at the break of spring, eh? How you'd play that you really didnt want to go but how the firm is making you do it?
Dont you realise that what you broad over is what lays eggs of indiscretion in your life? Dont you realise the motive for any action is truly the axis on which its value lies? That 100,000 pounds you gave to 'war-child' is really worth nothing because you only did it to get a tax-break. Or did you really think your soaring reputation was an indication that you've been doing right by the world? Au contraire, mon ami! Even the courts will let you off a heavy penalty if your lawyers can provide 'reasonable doubt' on your motives for the crime.
If even the decadent system we operate in appreciates that the motive for our actions can determine whether they are truly evil or good, why then do we make so light of them in our daily lives?

Some may argue that we can not, indeed should not, be condemned by our thoughts, afterall half the time we are not in control of them. They are mostly a response to external stimulus or our nous's way of letting us know that we are alive. Moreso, thoughts unlike actions are not quantitatively examinable as to determine a cause-and-effect relationship. How many thoughts on killing equate to murder? Can you prove i really thought about killing him if i didn't physically do it? Or that if I think about kiling someone for a year, i'd figure out a sneaky, evidence free way of doing it? (Don't you just love the human mind?)

I submit to you that your thoughts are more powerful than you are willing to let on or accept. I submit to you that the true value of any act is in the motive therein. I submit to you that even though this notion is unprovable, you and I know its true!
Take a moment to examine the 'value' of your actions, maybe you'll see the thoughts that led to them and maybe, just maybe then you'll see the truths you've ignored. 'cause that seemingly harmless thought you entertain now, may cost more than you bargained for later on...