Eminently quotable and full of practical advice for individuals who want to better themselves, As a Man Thinketh is an essential little volume published in 1902 which explains and promotes the direct connection between our thoughts and our happiness. Do you believe in the power of positive thinking — yet remain unclear as to how that power can be harnessed in your life? James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh explains and promotes the direct connection between what we think and the direction our lives take. Part of the New Thought Movement, Allen reveals the secrets to having the most fulfilling existence possible, and it’s easier than any of us could have imagined. You, too, can learn how to master the output of your brain in order to obtain the personal success of which you have always — until now — merely dreamed.
C1 - Thought and Character
- Thoughts are the maker, author, causer of our action, destiny, life
- thought crystalize our habits, habit make our circumstance
- therefore, our action and consequences and destiny
C2 - EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON CIRCUMSTANCES
- good thougts can never produce bad results
- Bad thoughts can never produce good results
- we cannot choose our circumstance, but we can choose thoughts
- circumstance doesn't make a man; it reveals it to himself!
- Man are willing to improve circumstance, but unwilling to improve themselves. Therefore remain bounds
- Suffering results from wrong thoughts.
C3 - EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND THE BODY
- ill thoughts (anxiety) kil body's immune system
- cheerful thoughts create health
C4 - THOUGHT AND PURPOSE
- aimlessness sabotage future success & achievement
- must have a purpose (duty) to direct the thoguths, set out to achieve it, life will be easy
- fear and doubt kill current effort to make things happen. fear always lead to failure no matter how hard you work
C5 - THOUGHT FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT
- thoughts direct achivement
- as he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think; so he remains
- the man is only free when he lift up his thoughts; higher he lift, higher his success
- with sacrifice comes success
C6 - VISIONS AND IDEALS
- humanity cannot foget his dreams (authors, artists, painters)
- To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve
- VISION = promise of what you shall become
- IDEAL = prophecy of what you shall at last unveil
- dreams (imagine) are the seedlings of your realities
- you can't travel within and stand still without
- *Whatever is your current environment, you will fall with your thoughts. Or you will rise with your thoughts
C7 - SERENITY
- calmess is important to the mind
- calmness is achieved by understanding other people/things, thus cease to react and get hurt
- calmess is self-control
- the calmer, the more success bring to the man
- *self-control is srength; Right thought is mastery; calmness is power
