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Title: As You Think by James Allen, Mark Allen, Marc Allen ISBN: 1-57731-074-8 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Politically Correct Version
Comment: In this edition of "As a Man Thinketh," Marc Allen (no relation to author James Allen), neuters the male overtones by replacing all references to "man" (which I always interpreted as "humanity," not a male or female) with the more sensitive third person and he/she variations. Somehow the statement "as a man thinketh, so is he," does not translate well to "as a person thinketh, so is she or he."
Marc Allen points out that in the Buddhist tradition, a book opens with a poem. If the reader can understand the poem, he or she has grasped the meaning of the book, and need not read the entire book. Here is James Allen's opening poem:
Mind is the master power that molds and makes,
And we are mind, and evermore we take
the tool of thought,and shaping what we will,
Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills.
We think in secret,and it comes to pass--
Our world is but our looking glass.
Thoreau said something similar in a shorter version where he alludes to how the mind of man can create a heaven or hell for itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Want to change your world??? Change your thoughts...
Comment: This is the most awesome cassette. I had read the book. But this audio cassette is wonderful to listen to in the car during your commute, or in the house while cleaning etc. I listened to it every day for over a month and my life was transformed. I continue to listen to it from time time to keep me on the right track. Mr Allens voice is also soothing and powerful. The writing is poignant and beautiful. Enjoy. Your life can only get better and better.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Mind over Muscle, Mind over Matter, Mind over Everything"
Comment: That quote is from Denis Waitley's "The New Dynamics of Winning" but it well captures the theme of this book. This book is about the power of one's own thoughts, the thoughts that we truly hold about what is possible, who we are, at the deepest level of our beings, to make themselves come true.
The book is divided into seven chapters, "Thought and Character", "The Effect of Thought on Circumstances", "The Effect of Thought on Healthy and the Body", "Thought and Purpose", "Thought as a Factor in Achievement", "Visions and Ideals" and "Serenity". In chapter 1, Allen writes, "(you) contain within yourself that transforming and regenerative agency by which you may make yourself what you will" (pg 25). One shapes one's own character by the controlled application of thought, will and action. In chapter 2, "...the outer conditions of your life will always be found to be harmoniously related to your inner state" (pg 32). People who love themselves, attract love from others; people who believe they can be sucessful end up causing their belief to come true and being sucessful. Skipping ahead to chapter 7, he writes that serenity is the effect of "see(ing) more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, we cease to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remain poised, steadfast, serene" (pg 85). When we come to realize that everything we want or fear has certain causes and that to a great extent we have control over those causes, we ceased to be frazzled by external circumstances because we sense a tremendous locus of power within our ownselves to shape our lives, to be the cause of those effects we desire and to stop being the cause of those effects that cause us suffering.
A great book that probably requires some unpacking by the reader given that it is so concise. Highly recommended.
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Title: The Wisdom of James Allen : Including As a Man Thinketh, The Path to Prosperity, The Mastery of Destiny, The Way of Peace, and Entering the Kingdom by James Allen, Andy Zubko ISBN: 1889606006 Publisher: Radiant Summit Pub. Date: 08 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen ISBN: 087516000X Publisher: DeVorss & Company Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: The Wisdom of James Allen II: Three Classic Works from the author of As a Man Thinketh, includes; Light on Life's Difficulties, Above Life's Turmoil, The Life Triumphant by James Allen, Andy Zubko ISBN: 1889606073 Publisher: Laurel Creek Press Pub. Date: 05 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: As a Woman Thinketh by Dorothy J. Hulst, James Allen ISBN: 0875164838 Publisher: DeVorss & Company Pub. Date: July, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: As a Man Does: Morning and Evening Thoughts by James Allen ISBN: 0757000185 Publisher: Square One Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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