As a Man Thinketh

As a Man Thinketh

January 8, 2021 by Sheer Excellence

Overview

As a Man Thinketh by Jame Allen is our book for October. It is a classic essay published in 1903 on thinking. The book describes how each of us shapes the events around us and shape our lives through our cognition’s.

It is broken into a few main categories.

Thoughts and Character

“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he”

“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.”

Basically what we think and what we do shapes our lives and the world as we see it. We are nothing else, but what we make ourselves.

Effect of thought on circumstances

“A 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.”

“Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.”

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

Effect of thought on health and the body