Free Success Ebook: As A Man Thinketh by James Allen (1903) – FREE Download

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 . . . Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

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FREE Success Ebook: "As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen (1903) Success Manual Strategist Ed. 2010

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As A Man Thinketh by James Allen is a true Success Manual classic.  Written more than 100 years ago - first published in 1903 to be exact - this little gem is brimming with Wisdom.

Sunrise Christmas Morning 2009 from Mount Washington, New Hampshire

I first read this classic about 20 years ago and was immediately captivated by its wealth of knowledge.  Although the entire book may be read in less than an hour, I would fixate on a paragraph for hours, drinking the enlightenment that flowed from the text.  I had discovered a treasure.

To this day, I continue to read As A Man Thinketh.  It is a guide book, upon which scores of other books, lectures, teachings and other materials written by many others, including other Success Masters, have been based.  Although I have read it hundreds of times, each new reading brings forth new pearls of wisdom to apply to my life.

For the novice student of Success, As A Man Thinketh is a must read.  In fact, I would recommend that it be read first.  Then, continue to read it - at least once a year.  As for myself, I make it an annual ritual to sit down and study it every New Year's Day.   I am not quite sure how the tradition started, but it really doesn't matter.  What better way to gear up for a fresh New Year than spending time with Mr. Allen and his timeless classic.

The following is James Allen's perspective on his classic piece:

 As a Man Thinketh is a must-have Success Manual; it belongs in every student's library and should be read over and over again (and over and over!).  Each new reading brings forth "new" Wisdom to the growing student.  Our Success Manual Strategist Edition is well compiled and artfully crafted.  As a freebie, it is a major score (heck, the Wisdom to be gained is priceless!).

Following the Download Section, below, is an exerpt from this timeless Classic, Chapter 6, "Visions and Ideals."

Enjoy!

As always, Peace and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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 Visions and Ideals

James Allen

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.  As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.  Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as they realities which it shall one day see and know.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.  The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve.  Shall man’s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?  Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: “ask and receive.”

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.  Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.  The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.  Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.  You cannot travel within and stand still without.  Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor; confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled, and lacking all the arts of refinement.  But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty.  He conceives of, mentally builds up, an ideal condition of life; the vision of a wider liberty and a larger scope takes possession of him; unrest urges him to action, and he utilizes all his spare time and means, small though they are, to the development of his latent powers and resources.  Very soon so altered has his mind become that the workshop can no longer hold him.  It has become so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside, and, with the growth of opportunities, which fit the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it forever.  Years later we see this youth as a full-grown man.  We find him a master of certain forces of the mind, which he wields with worldwide influence and almost unequalled power. In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks, and lo, lives are changed; men and women hang upon his words and remold their characters, and, sunlike, he becomes the fixed and luminous centre round which innumerable destinies revolve.  He has realized the Vision of his youth.  He has become one with his Ideal.

And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.  Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.  You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration: in the beautiful words of Stanton Kirkham Davis, “You may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself before an audience – the pen still behind your ear, the ink stains on your fingers and then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration.  You may be driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city-bucolic and open-mouthed; shall wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit into the studio of the master, and after a time he shall say, ‘I have nothing more to teach you.’  And now you have become the master, who did so recently dream of great things while driving sheep.  You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take upon yourself the regeneration of the world.”

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.  Seeing a man grow rich, they say, “How lucky he is!”  Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, “How highly favored he is!”  And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, “How chance aids him at every turn!”  They do not see the trials and failures and struggles which these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience; have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable, and realize the Vision of their heart.  They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it “luck.”  They do not see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it “good fortune,” do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.  Chance is not.  Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.

The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart--this you will build your life by, this you will become.

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Mount Washington photograph with permission by the Mount Washington Observatory.  Thank you!

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