Quotes from James Allen

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.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

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.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.