Saturday, February 5, 2011

Book Review: "As a Man Thinketh" written by Jame Allen

"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thought can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking."
                                                                                       -James Allen
Written as a result of meditation this book invokes the same meditative action within the reader. The power of our thinking! This book causes the reader to spend more time in self reflective thought than time spent reading. Readers are forced to have a kind of egosyntonicity reconstruction. developing a broader perception of who we are in correlation with our consciousness is subsequent.  Recently this book has been marketed as a "key to success" manuscript deemed by today's readers that rapaciously want a (facetious) scripted secrets of success to be given to them.  This type of manuscript does not exist. The fallacy of  emotional appeal compromises our judgement.

-A compilation of thought provoked passages

"Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind"
                                                                                      -James Allen

This book highlights the principle, Quality of Thought.  People can sometimes believe something so much that no one can unravel them from that belief, not even the truth. This book does nothing of the sort.  James Allen causes the reader to take a rudimentary look at one's self, questioning our action, motives and thoughts.  Ushering you into a realm of thought seldom visited.
What you do with the discovery of your own self is up to you.





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