The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind
By James Allen
()
About this ebook
James Allen
James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family, after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early 1900s, when he became increasingly known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's-who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill.
Read more from James Allen
The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time On The Secrets To Wealth And Prosperity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Prosperity & Wealth Bible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As A Man Thinketh: Three Perspectives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New Thought Bundle #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Prosperity Bible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As You Think: Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition and Master of Destiny: A GPS Guide to Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Law of Attraction: Fifteen Historic Perspectives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prosperity Bundle #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a Man Thinketh Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition (With Bonus Material) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProsperity Super Pack #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Path to Prosperity: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prosperity Super Pack #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man: King of Mind, Body and Circumstance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Thought Super Pack #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Life Triumphant
Related ebooks
The Heavenly Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLight on Life’s Difficulties Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut from the Heart: With an Essay on The Dignity of Self-Reliance By William George Jordan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs A Man Does Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbove Life's Turmoil: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Above Lifes Turmoil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut from the Heart: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From Passion to Peace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wisdom of The Guardian [The Best of the Guardian Code] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Path of Prosperity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHE KEY TO SUCCESS & WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR WILL POWER Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Stay Well Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWithin You Is The Power - Create the Life You Want Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThoughts are Things Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWill the Real God Please Stand Up; My First Eighty Years Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5EVERY MAN A KING: How To Control Thought and Exercise the Power of Self-Faith Over Others Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMorning and Evening Thoughts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Spite of Everything Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life Magnet Volume 2 of 5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelf-Mastery: Navigating the Journey Within Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWithin You is the Power - The Complete Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Science of Being Great Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWisdom for a Better World: Finding Your Way Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mental Equivalent Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life Magnet Volume 3 of 5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Game of Life and How to Play it Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Way to the Kingdom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGetting at the Inner Man/Fifty Years on the Lecture Platform Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe James Allen Companion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInto The Light Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
New Age & Spirituality For You
The Element Encyclopedia of 20,000 Dreams: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Celebration of Discipline, Special Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Screwtape Letters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dream Dictionary from A to Z [Revised edition]: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a Man Thinketh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Three Questions: How to Discover and Master the Power Within You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Four Loves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Summary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mere Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reflections on the Psalms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gospel of Mary Magdalene Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Conversations With God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for The Life Triumphant
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Life Triumphant - James Allen
Foreword
Every being lives in his own mental world. His joys and sorrows are the creations of his own mind, and are dependent upon the mind for their existence. In the midst of the world, darkened with many sins and sorrows, in which the majority live, there abides another world, lighted up with shining virtues and unpolluted joy, in which the perfect ones live. This world can be found and entered, and the way to it is by self-control and moral excellence. It is the world of the perfect life, and it rightly belongs to man, who is not complete until crowned with perfection. The perfect life is not the faraway, impossible thing that men who are in darkness imagine it to be; it is supremely possible, and very near and real. Man remains a craving, weeping, sinning, repenting creature just so long as he wills to do so by clinging to those weak conditions. But when he wills to shake off his dark dreams and to rise, he arises and achieves.
James Allen
Hail to Thee, Man divine! the conqueror
Of sin and shame and sorrow; no more weak,
Wormlike, and groveling art thou; no, nor
Wilt thou again bow down to things that weak
Scourgings and death upon thee; thou dost rise
Triumphant in thy strength; good, pure and wise.
Faith and Courage
For those who will fight bravely and not yield, there is triumphant victory over all the dark things of life. I state this at the beginning, that the reader may know there is no uncertainty about it. In the course of this book I shall show what are the elements, in character and conduct, which go to build up the life of calm strength and superlative victory.
To stand face to face with truth; to arrive, after innumerable wanderings and pains, at wisdom and bliss; not to be finally defeated and cast out, but ultimately to triumph over every inward foe—such is man’s divine destiny, such his glorious goal. And this, every saint, sage, and savior has declared.
In the present stage of the life of humanity, comparatively few reach this place of triumph—though all will reach it at last—yet there is a glorious company of perfect ones who have attained in the past, and their number is being added to with each succeeding age. Men are as yet learners in the school of life, and most men die learners. But there are some who, in this life, through fixity of purpose and strenuous fighting against darkness, pain, and ignorance, acquire a right knowledge of life and pass joyfully beyond the pupil stage.
Man is not to remain forever a schoolboy in the universe, to be whipped for follies and errors. When he wills and wishes, he can set his mind upon his task and master the lessons of life, becoming a confident and skilled scholar, living in understanding and peace, and not in ignorance and misery.
The sorrows of life are profound and deeply rooted, but they can be fathomed and rooted out. The passions and emotions of human nature are, in their ungoverned state, overwhelming and painfully conflicting, but they can be so softened down, harmonized, and wisely directed and understood, as to become obedient servants for the outworking of enlightened purposes.
The difficulties of life are great, its battle fierce, and its wished for issues are uncertain and elusive; so much so, that every hour men and women are breaking down under the strain. Yet these conditions have no objective and arbitrary existence. In their true nature they are subjective and purely mental, and can be transcended. There is no inherent and permanent evil in the universal order; and the mind can be lifted up to the moral altitude where evil can touch it no more.
A steadfast faith in an Eternal and Universal Justice, in an over-ruling Good, is the prelude to the Life Triumphant. The man who aims to become strong, serene, and steadfast at heart must, at the onset, have no doubt that the Heart of Life is good. He who is to gaze upon the Cosmic Order and experience the rapture of emancipation must realize that there is no disorder in his life but that which he creates. This realization is difficult, so prone is the mind, in its imperfect stages, to self-pity and self-justification, but it can be attained, and must be attained by him who is to live the freed life. At first it must be believed, and the belief must be adhered to, until it ripens into realization and knowledge.
The sufferings of life are greatly reduced when they are accepted as disciplinary experiences, and the man of faith does so accept them. The sufferings of life are transcended and put away when all experiences are accounted good, and are utilized in the development of character, and the man of knowledge does so regard and utilize them.
Faith is the grey dawn which precedes the full and perfect day of knowledge. Without it there can be no attainment of strength, no permanent security of heart. The man of faith does not succumb when difficulties present themselves; he does not despair