Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance: How Self Mastery is the Solution to All Problems.

How do our thoughts limit our achievements and our happiness? Can our minds control our destinies? How can we free ourselves from the slavery of bad habits? Can we will our way to prosperity? These questions, and others like them, were foremost in the thinking of James Allen, one of the most popular writers in the fields of inspiration and spirituality at the turn of the 20th century.

Here, in this concise work of self-empowerment first published in 1911, he answers them, sharing with us in comforting but rousing tones the paths to the mastery of ourselves and our lives.

Contents

1. Foreword 2. The inner world of thoughts 3. The outer world of things 4. Habit: its slavery and its freedom 5. Bodily conditions 6. Poverty 7. Man’s spiritual dominion 8. Conquest: not resignation

“The problem of life consists in learning how to live. It is like the problem of addition or subtraction to the schoolboy. When mastered, all difficulty disappears, and the problem has vanished. All the problems of life, whether they be social, political, or religious, subsist in ignorance and wrong-living. As they are solved in the heart of each individual, they will be solved in the mass of men. Humanity at present is in the painful stage of “learning.” It is confronted with the difficulties of its own ignorance.

As men learn to live rightly, learn to direct their forces and use their functions and faculties by the light of wisdom, the sum of life will be correctly done, and its mastery will put an end to all the “problems of evil.” To the wise, all such problems have ceased.” -James Allen