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Who said that
there's anything new under the sun? Did you know
that pretty much all of the self-help "experts" who are
writing
today are merely repeating what others have written already, some
as early as two thousand years ago? We're going to do our
best to
make sure that many of the classic works are available to you for
free, and we're trying to format them in the most readable
manner possible, with larger type for the computer and
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Ralph
Waldo Trine's The Greatest Thing Ever Known (1896)
Trine's work, one of a series of "The Life
Books" and "The Life Booklets," cuts
through all of the dogma and limiting thoughts that people
have adopted in their religious and spiritual lives,
providing a practical and useful explanation of the
purpose behind Christ's teachings on earth. This is
not a book that tells us why we should be Christians, or
that threatens us with hell and damnation if we don't
believe in certain ways; rather, it's a thoughtful work
that helps us to understand just what it really means to
be spiritual creatures in a world created by God but
distorted by men. A short but incredibly important
work.
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An
excerpt:
Wherever
you are, whatever doing, walking along the street or
through the fields, at work of any kind, falling off to or
awaking from sleep, setting about any undertaking, in
doubt as to what course to pursue at any particular time,
in brief, whatever it may be, carry with you this thought:
It is the Father that worketh in me, my Father works and I
work. This is the thought so continually used by Jesus,
who came into probably the fullest realisation of the
oneness of His life with the God-life that anyone who has
lived in the world thus far has come into, and it is given
because it is so simple. |
James
Allen's As a Man Thinketh (1902)
An early work about the Law of Attraction, in which Allen
explores the effects of our thoughts on our lives.
Good, positive thoughts, he says, lead to good, positive
results, while negative thinking leads to negative
circumstances. And to give you a good idea of just
how old the Law of Attraction is, Allen's main point is
borrowed from the Bible.
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An excerpt:
THE
aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is
he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being,
but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition
and circumstance of his life.
A man is literally what he thinks, his
character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
As
the plant springs from, and could not be without, the
seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds
of thought, and could not have appeared without them.
This applies equally to those acts called
"spontaneous" and "unpremeditated" as
to those, which are deliberately executed. |
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Arnold Bennett's classic
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day.
An examination of ways that we can spend the time that
we've been given to greatly improve the quality of our
lives.
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An excerpt:
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Out
of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content,
respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. Its right
use, its most effective use, is a matter of the highest
urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on
that. Your happiness—the elusive prize that you are all
clutching for, my friends!—depends on that. Strange
that the newspapers, so enterprising and up-to-date as they
are, are not full of "How to live on a given income of
time," instead of "How to live on a given income of
money"! Money is far commoner than time. When one
reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest
thing there is. It encumbers the earth in gross heaps. |
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Ralph Waldo Trine's
The Wayfarer on the Open Road (1919)
This is a relatively short work that explores life and
living and the Law of Attraction. Specifically, he
follows a "Creed of the Open Road," a series of
things to do and ways to act that will help us to get the
most out of our lives, and be people who are contributing to
the positive sides of this world in which we live. A
quick read, but very deep and inspiring at the same
time--don't let its length fool you!
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here.
An
excerpt:
OUR
complex modern life, especially in our larger centers, gets us
running so many times into grooves that we are prone to miss,
and sometimes for long periods, the all-round, completer life.
We are led at times almost to forget that the stars come nightly
to the sky, or even that there is a sky; that there are
hedgerows and groves where the birds are always singing and
where we can lie on our backs and watch the treetops swaying
above us and the clouds floating by an hour or hours at a time;
where one can live with his soul or, as Whitman has put it,
where one can loaf and invite his soul.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox's
The Heart of the New Thought (1902).
Thirty-one short chapters on topics such as
"Old Clothes," "Eternity," "The
Philosophy of Happiness," and many more. This is
a fascinating work that examines the dynamics behind being
happy and the problems with many of the social structures
that people have used to try to become happy. Years
ahead of its time. . . .
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here to download.
An
excerpt:
If you have groveled in fear
and a belief that you were born to poverty and failure, courage
and success and opulence will be of slow growth. Yet they will
grow and materialize, as surely as you insist and persist. Declare
they are yours, right in the face of the worst disasters.
There is nothing that so confuses and frustrates misfortune
as to stare it down with unflinching eyes.
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Orison Swett Marden's
Character: The Grandest Thing in the
World.
A great
examination
of one of the most important
aspects of who we
are. Marden was one of the most prolific self-help
and motivational writers the world has ever seen,
though most of his works have faded into oblivion.
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here to download.
An excerpt:
What
is character but the poor man’s capital? Is not
character an available piece of property? Is it not
estimated as moral security, the noblest of possessions?
"It is an estate in the general good will and respect
of men; and they who invest in it will find their reward
in esteem and reputation fairly and honorably won." |
Ralph
Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance and Other
Essays."
One of the most oft-quoted writers
ever, Emerson's essays here include
"Self-Reliance," "Love,"
"Friendship," and more. His words are wise
and caring, insightful and practical, and great reading
for anyone who's interested in learning more about human
nature and the ways that we see the world.
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here to download.
Trust
thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for
you, the society of your contemporaries, the
connection of events. Great men have always done so,
and confided themselves childlike to the genius of
their age, betraying their perception that the
absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart,
working through their hands, predominating in all
their being. |
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Khalil Gibran's The Prophet.
A beautifully poetic work that presents the teachings
of a
man of great wisdom to
the people of the town in which he's been
living for several years. He's about
to embark on a journey home, and the people
ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. A truly timeless classic.
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here to download. An
excerpt:
Your
children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for
itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you
cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them
like you. |
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