As a Man Thinketh - James Allen

The greatest achievement was at first andfor a time a dream. The oak sleeps in theacorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in thehighest vision of the soul a waking angelstirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, soshall you become.

Your Vision is the promise of what

you shall one day be.

Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shallat last unveil.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial,but they shall not long remain so if you butperceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. Youcannot travel within and stand still without.

Whatever your present environment maybe, you will fall, remain, or rise with yourthoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.

And you, too, youthful reader, will realize theVision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be itbase or beautiful, or a mixture of both, foryou will always gravitate toward that whichyou, secretly, most love.

You will become as small as your controllingdesire; as great as your dominant aspiration:

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and theindolent, seeing only the apparent effects ofthings and not the things themselves, talk ofluck, of fortune, and chance.

In all human affairs there are efforts, andthere are results, and the strength of theeffort is the measure of the result. Chance isnot.

The Vision that you glorify in your mind, theIdeal that you enthrone in your heart—thisyou will build your life by, this you willbecome.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose thereis no intelligent accomplishment.

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting mustnot continue for him who would steer clearof catastrophe and destruction.

Those who have no central purposefall prey to everything petty

A man should conceive of a legitimatepurpose in his heart, and set out toaccomplish it. He should make this purposethe centralizing point of his thoughts.

Even if he fails again and again toaccomplish his purpose (as he necessarilymust until weakness is overcome),

To begin to think with purpose, is to enterthe ranks of those strong ones

Thoughts allied to purpose become acreative force

“The soul attracts that which it secretlyharbors; that which it loves, and also thatwhich it fears. It reaches the height of itscherished aspirations. It falls to the level ofits unchastened desires – and circumstancesare the means by which the soul receives itsown.”

ALL that a man achieves and all that he failsto achieve is the direct result of his ownthoughts.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues tothink, so he remains.

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The man who does not shrink fromselfcrucifixion can never fail to accomplishthe object upon which his heart is set.

Even the man whose sole object is toacquire wealth must be prepared to makegreat personal sacrifices before he canaccomplish his object

There can be no progress, no achievementwithout sacrifice, and a man's worldlysuccess will be in the measure that hesacrifices his confused animal thoughts, andfixes his mind on the development of hisplans, and the strengthening of hisresolution and selfreliance.

He who would accomplish little mustsacrifice little; he who would achieve muchmust sacrifice much; he who would attainhighly must sacrifice greatly.

A man is literally what he thinks his character being a completesum of all his thoughts

Man is made or unmade byhimself; in the armoury of thoughthe forges the weapons by whichhe destroys himself; he alsofashions the tools with which hebuilds for himself heavenlymansions of joy and strength andpeace.

Man is the master of thought, themoulder of character, and the maker andshaper of condition, environment, anddestiny.

Man contains within himself thattransforming and regenerative agency bywhich he may make himself what he wills.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long ashe believes himself to be the creature ofoutside conditions, but when he realizes thathe is a creative power, and that he maycommand the hidden soil and seeds of hisbeing out of which circumstances grow, hethen becomes the rightful master of himself.

Circumstances grow out of thought

Circumstances do not make a man

As the master of our thoughts, we are the

Men are anxious to improve theircircumstances, but are unwilling to improvethemselves; they therefore remain bound.

that man is the causer (though nearly alwaysis unconsciously) of his circumstances, andthat, whilst aiming at a good end, he iscontinually frustrating its accomplishment byencouraging thoughts and desires whichcannot possibly harmonize with that end.

A particular train of thought persisted in, beit good or bad, cannot fail to produce itsresults on the character and circumstances. .

MAN'S mind may be likened to agarden, which may be intelligentlycultivated or allowed to run wild; butwhether cultivated or neglected, itmust, and will, bring forth. If no usefulseeds are put into it, then anabundance of useless weedseedswill fall therein, and will continue toproduce their kind.

As the plant springs from, andcould not be without, the seed,so every act of a man springsfrom the hidden seeds ofthought, and could not haveappeared without them. Thisapplies equally to those actscalled "spontaneous" and"unpremeditated" as to those,which are deliberately executed.

Thoughts are exactly likeseeds

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One of the greatest books ever written onthe power of thought

One of the earliest works in the modern selfhelp movement

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Author James Allen British philosopher andpioneer in the modern self help movement

Published in 1903

Really short book around 20 pages long

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