As I Think - The Timeless Classic for Women

By James Allen

This timeless classic from James Allen (originally published as "As A Man Thinketh") has been an inspiration and guide to generations of individuals who seek more success, happiness, fulfillment, and opportunity in their lives. Now updated for today's women, "As I Think" brings the brilliance of this great thinker into the present, speaking directly to the reader in an immediate and meaningful way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365663994

James Allen

James Allen (1864-1912) was an English author, magazine editor and one of the founders of what would come to be known as the self-help genre. Including the works assembled by his wife after his death, Allen wrote 21 books, the most famous being As a Man Thinketh.

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As I Think - The Timeless Classic for Women

As I Think

by

James Allen

ISBN: 978-1-365-66399-4

The timeless self-improvement classic – re-imagined for women

Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes,

And I am Mind, and evermore I take

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what I will

Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:--

I think in secret, and it comes to pass:

Environment is but my looking-glass.

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 one rights oneself, 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

Chapter 1 - Thought And Character

The aphorism, As I think in my heart so am I, not only embraces the whole of my being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of my