50 Self Help Classics 2nd Edition by Tom Butler-Bowdon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Language: English
- Genre: Motivational Self-Help, Personal Transformation Self-Help, Reference
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James Allen
With its theme that “mind is the master weaver,” creating our
inner character and outer circumstances, As a Man Thinketh is
an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.
James Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all
share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our
thoughts—and reveal its fallacy.
Because most of us believe
that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can
be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way
and act another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious
mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and
while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through
the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced
with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve
that?”
In noting that desire and will are sabotaged by the presence
of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen was led to the
startling conclusion: “We do not attract what we want, but
what we are.” Achievement happens because you as a person
embody the external achievement; you don’t “get” success but
become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.
We are the sum of our thoughts
The logic of the book is unassailable: Noble thoughts make a
noble person, negative thoughts hammer out a miserable one.
To a person mired in negativity, the world looks as if it is made
of confusion and fear. On the other hand, Allen noted, when
we curtail our negative and destructive thoughts, “All the
world softens towards us, and is ready to help us.”
We attract not only what we love, but also what we fear. His
explanation for why this happens is simple: Those thoughts
that receive our attention, good or bad, go into the unconscious
to become the fuel for later events in the real world. As
Emerson commented, “A person is what he thinks about all
day long.”
Our circumstances are us
Part of the fame of Allen’s book is its contention that
“Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.” This
seems an exceedingly heartless comment, a justification for
neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation
and abuse, of the superiority of those at the top of the pile and
the inferiority of those at the bottom.
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