By James Allen
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:–He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.
FOREWORD
THIS little volume (the result of meditation [...]

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 the complete sum of all his thoughts.
As the [...]

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.
Just as a [...]

As A Man Thinketh: Effect Of Thought On Circumstances Part 2
A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the [...]

As A Man Thinketh: Effect Of Thought On Circumstances Part 3
Here is an employer of labour who adopts crooked measures to avoid paying the regulation wage, and, in the hope of making larger profits, reduces the wages of his workpeople. Such a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity, and when he finds himself bankrupt, both [...]