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James Allen: More As A Man Thinketh
A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. [...]
Every man is where he is by the law of his being
Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This is just as true of [...]
More As A Man Thinketh from James Allen
Here is more from James Allen, As A Man Thinketh. The power of this book lies not so much in the reading of the words. The power lies in the repition of the words. I think As A Man Thinketh, needs to be read an re-read numerous times. There is wisdom and magic here, but [...]
More on Byways to Blessedness by James Allen
The author’s book, the artist’s picture, the orator’s speech, the reformer’s work, the inventor’s machine, the general’s campaign, are all carefully planned in the mind before the attempt to actualise them
James Allen’s Way to Blessedness
“Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.”
