Quotes from James Allen

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This is just as true of those who feel "out of harmony" with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them.

Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its personal, blossoming finally into act, and bearing its personal fruitage of possibility and condition. Good mind undergo good fruit, terrible mind bad fruit.

The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles— Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.

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 outer global of condition shapes itself to the inner international of thought, and each first-rate and ugly external situations are elements, which make for the ultimate right of the person. As the reaper of his personal harvest, guy learns both with the aid of suffering and bliss.

A guy does not come to the almshouse or the jail by using the tyranny of fate or situation, but with the aid of the pathway of grovelling mind and base goals.

Much that is commonly called sympathy is personal affection. To love them who love us is human bias and inclination; but to love them who do not love us is divine sympathy.

Circumstance does not make the person; it reveals him to himself

for your dominant trends of thought are the determining factors in your destiny.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With

Men pass from evil to good, from self to Truth, through the dark gate of sorrow, for sorrow and self are inseparable.

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck; 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.

Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world. This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.

Men do now not entice that which they want, but that which they're. Their whims, fancies, and aims are thwarted at each step, but their inmost thoughts and goals are fed with their own food, be it foul or smooth.

Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.

The right control of the tongue is the beginning of wisdom; the right control of the mind is the consummation of wisdom. By curbing his tongue a man gains possession of his mind, and to have complete possession of one's mind is to be a Master of Silence.

Not what he desires and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are handiest gratified and responded once they harmonize together with his mind and actions.

This, then, is the secret of health, -a pure heart and a well-ordered mind ; this is the secret of success, -an unfaltering faith, and a wisely-directed purpose; and to rein in, with unfaltering will, the dark steed of desire, this is the secret of power.

thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances. When the hour of trial comes, and he has to decide between his personal comforts and Truth, he gives up his comforts and remains firm.

The man of self regards the loss of his wealth, his comforts, or his life as the greatest calamities which can befall him. The man of principle looks upon these incidents as comparatively insignificant, and not to be weighed with loss of character, loss of Truth.