Interactions with a book -7

My new book for this week is “As a man thinketh” by James Allen.

It is a very insightful book on how the mind could be a factory for a productive life or an excavating tool that helps us descend lower and lower into depravity.

The book’s content is brief and straight to the point but the insights take a long time to fully digest.

Here are a few highlights from the book:

-Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.

-Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. 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 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.

-Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Powerful insights from James Allen’s book!

Next week, I shall bring you highlights from a new book I just started reading.