As A Man Thinketh
As A Man Thinketh is a powerful philosophy that will make
you achieve perfection through the purity of thought.
More than that this book will help you transform your thoughts into concrete
actions that will result in the achievement of anything that you deeply desire in your heart.
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen propounds that a man is his dream. He goes on to explain that
what a man thinks about is what he becomes. In the book, readers are introduced to effect of thought on circumstances;
effect of thought on health and body; thought and purpose; thought factor in achievement; vision and ideals and
serenity.
Book Excerpts:
Chapter One
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 in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry. Thought in the mind hath made us. What we are
By thought we wrought and built. If a man's mind Hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes The wheel the ox behind
. . . If one endure in purity of thought joy follows him as his own shadow - sure.
Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is
as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. A noble
and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right
thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.
An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the
continued harboring of groveling thoughts. Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the
weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of
joy and strength and peace.
By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine
Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two
extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and
brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this - that man
is the master of thought, the molder of character, and maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation,
and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.
Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the
foolish master who misgoverns his "household." When he begins to reflect upon his condition, and to search diligently
for the Law upon which his being is established, he then becomes the wise master, directing his energies with
intelligence, and fashioning his thoughts to fruitful issues. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus
become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application,
self-analysis, and experience.
Only by much searching and mining are gold an diamonds obtained, and man can
find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.
And that he is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the
builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove: if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their
effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances; if he will link cause and effect by patient
practice and investigation, utilizing his every experience, even to the most trivial, as a means of obtaining that
knowledge of himself. In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute that "He that seeketh findeth; and to
him that knocketh it shall be opened"; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the
Door of the Temple of Knowledge.
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