Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good
results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. Men
understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world.
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of
harmony with himself, with the Law of his being. The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out
all that is useless and impure. Suffering ceases for him who is pure.
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony. The
circumstances which a man encounters with blessedness are the result of his own mental harmony.
The dishonest man may have some admirable virtues which the other does not possess; and the honest man obnoxious vices which are absent in the other. The honest man reaps the good results of his honest thoughts and acts; he also brings upon himself the sufferings which his vices produce. The dishonest man likewise garners his own suffering and happiness.
Excerpts from ‘As a Man Thinketh’-
James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh explains and promotes the direct connection between what we think and the direction our lives take.
You, too, can learn how to master the output of your brain in order to obtain the personal success of which you have always — until now — merely dreamed
