james allen - as a man thinketh(中文名《思考的人》《结果法则》.doc

PAGE 北斗成功社区 成功/励志/财经/致富/创业/管理/修身/智慧 助您解决成长中的问 题 BeiDouW AS A MAN THINKETH 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. CONTENTS THOUGHT AND CHARACTER EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON CIRCUMSTANCES EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND THE BODY THOUGHT AND PURPOSE THE THOUGHT-FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT VISIONS AND IDEALS SERENITY FOREWORD 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. BROAD PARK AVENUE, ILFRACOMBE, ENGLAND AS A MAN THINKETH THOUGHT AND CHARACTER THE aphorism, As a man thinketh in his heart so is he, not only embraces the whole of a mans 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 plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called spontaneous and unpremeditated as to those, which are deliberately executed. Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry. Thought in t