"Allen, James - As a Man Thinketh" - читать интересную книгу автора (Allen James)

Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his
thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer
desires impure food.
Clean thoughts make clean habits. The so-called saint who
does not wash his body is not a saint. He who has strengthened
and purified his thoughts does not need to consider the malevolent
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If you would perfect your body, guard your mind. If you
would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice,
envy, and disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its
health and grace. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made
by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion,
pride.
I know a woman of ninety-six who has the bright, innocent
face of a girl. I know a man well under middle age whose face
is drawn into in harmonious contours. The one is the result of a
sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the outcome
of passion and discontent.
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you
admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong
body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result
>from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and
goodwill and serenity.
On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles made by sympathy
others by strong and pure thought, and others are carved by passion;
who cannot distinguish them? With those who have lived righteously,
age is calm, peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting sun.
I have recently seen a philosopher on his death-bed. He was not old
except in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived.
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the
ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill
for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually
in thoughs of ill-will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be
confined in a self-made prison hole. But to think well of all, to be
cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all--
such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of
heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature
will bring abounding peace to their possessor.




THOUGHT AND PURPOSE

until thought is linked w/ purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
w/ the majority the bark of thought is allowed to "drift" upon the ocean of
life. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for
him who would street clear of catastrophe and destruction.
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to
petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are