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bacamp With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of lf-help writing.
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(64)Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that becau we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.
Becau most of us believe that mind is parate 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 (47) 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 mylf do this or achieve that? ”
Since desire and will are damaged by the prence of thoughts that do not accord with desienn
fwdre, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” Achievement happens becau you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t “ get” success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.
Part of the fame of Allen’s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.” (48) This ems a justification for neglect of tho in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of tho at the top and the inferiority of tho at the bottom.
This ,however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each t of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progresd. In fat,
zooskoolstray女人与牛inkwell(49)margin rightcircumstances em to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.
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tuesday是什么意思Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.
The sobering aspect of Allen’s book is that we have no one el to blame for our prent condition except ourlves.(50)The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
