A small but invaluable book of approximately 67 pages that can change
your life by drawing your attention to your thoughts and how these
thoughts manifest themselves in the expression of your life.

Practical Philosopher

A small but invaluable book of approximately 67 pages that can change
your life by drawing your attention to your thoughts and how these
thoughts manifest themselves in the expression of your life.

A few quotes from James Allen will give you a flavor of the book.


"The aphorism, 'As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,' (Proverbs
23:7) not only describes a man's inner character, 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 he thinks, so is he;. as he
continues to think, so he remains"

"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."

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently
cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected,
it must, and will bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then
an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue
to produce their kind."

"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take
root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and
bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts
bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit."

"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts
and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that
nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles.
Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few
understand it in the mental and moral world/"
"The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the
mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease
and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes
clothed with youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health, like
circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express
themselves through a sickly body."

"Hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of
accusation and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury
and persecution."

" Thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in
thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to
their possessor."

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to
improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he
alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other
people will alter towards him."

"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the
result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an
indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge
of the laws and operations of thought."

"A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a
thought evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the
understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a
right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal
relations of things by the action of cause and effect he ceases to fuss
and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene."

"That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last
lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom,
more to be desired than gold - yea, than even fine gold. How
insignificant mere money seeking looks in comparison with a serene life
- a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond
the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!"