"Allen, James - As a Man Thinketh" - читать интересную книгу автора (Allen James)

From: uunet!uunet!ssi!tao!kline (Gary Kline)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 90 21:49:21 CDT
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Subject: "As a Man Thinketh", James Allen

Perseverance, will-power, self-esteem, courage, faith,
determination, power.

Allen has a positive basis for his philosophical thought in that
he says law, justice, righteousness are the molding and moving forces
in the spiritual governing of the world. When man rights himself
humanity, in turn, learns that the universe is right and in focus.
One must attain a spiritual focus to learn that as things are
viewed, in turn one is viewed by things. The focal point of view
changes as things are viewed in one light and perspective and then
another, while simultaneously, when being viewed, the focus again
is ever changing. All these elements, actions, interactions,
gradations flow one into and out of the other to create a
spiritual focus.


INTRODUCTION
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

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 he complete sum of all his thoughts.
As the plant springs from, and could not be without,
the seed, so every act of 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.