As a Man Thinketh

By James Allen

As a Man Thinketh is a literally blueprint on living. This is a practical philosophy of successful living which has awakened millions to the discovery and perception of the truth.
Weaving a way through the inner dynamics the human psyche, James Allen shows us what we already intuitively know: how changing ones' mind-set can improve one's circumstances - no matter how difficult. Written in a succinct, easy-to-digest style, 

AS A MAN THINKETH is a valuable tool to anyone serious about achieving a purpose-filled life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Sep 25, 2017

James Allen

Born in 1864 in England, James Allen took his first job at fifteen to support his family. Allen worked as a factory knitter and later a private secretary before writing his first book, From Poverty to Power, in 1901. In 1903 he completed his best-known work: As a Man Thinketh. Allen wrote nineteen books, including his spiritual journal, The Light of Reason, before he died at age forty-seven in 1912. While not widely known during his lifetime, Allen later came to be seen as a pioneer of contemporary inspirational literature.

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As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

ClassicBooks

This book is in public

domain

now

.

First published in

New

York

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First ClassicBooks

imprint

2017

As a public domain work, any part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, with proper credits to the author.

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,

Brings forth a thousand joys, a

thousand

ills

:—

He thinks in secret, and it comes

to

pass

:

Environment is but his looking-glass.

James Allen

Contents

Foreword

Thought and Character

Effect of Thought on Circumstances

Effect of Thought on Health and the Body

Thought and Purpose

The Thought-factor in Achievement

Visions and Ideals

Serenity

About the Author

Foreword

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the

truth

that

—

They themselves are makers of themselves.

by virtue of the thoughts, which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.

JAMES ALLEN.  BROAD PARK AVENUE,  ILFRACOMBE,  ENGLAND

Thought and Character

THE aphorism, As a man thinketh in his heart so is he, not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called spontaneous and unpremeditated as to those, which are deliberately executed.

Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner