------ In , James Allen says that thoughts are things. And in this book , he goes a step further and teaches you the spiritual and deep connection between your attitude and your prosperity. The book emphasis the importance of having positive, pure and powerful character traits (enriching your soul), as they are the corner stone to achieve true prosperity in life. One such is to be helpful to others, in losing yourself in the service of others, to paraphrase James Allen. In James Allen's trademark style, it is about what you have thought and done up until now that have given you your current reality and degree of prosperity. Since you can change and manage your thoughts and action, you of course can change the degree of your prosperity. This book is an important forerunner to current works like 1. The Lesson of Evil 2. The World a Reflex of Mental States 3. The Way Out of Undesirable Conditions 4. The Silent Power of Thought: Controlling and Directing One's Forces 5. The Secret of Health, Success and Power 6. The Secret of Abounding Happiness 7. The Realization of Prosperity 1. You desire a larger and more sanitary residence. Then you must fit yourself for such a residence by first of all making your cottage as far as possible a little paradise. Keep it spotlessly clean. Make it look as pretty and sweet as your limited means will allow. Cook your plain food with all care, and arrange your humble table as tastefully as you possibly can. 2. To be patient under all circumstances, and to accept all conditions as necessary factors in your training, is to rise superior to all painful conditions, and to overcome them with an overcoming which is sure, and which leaves no fear of their return, for by the power of obedience to law they are utterly slain. 3. Your true wealth is your stock of virtue, and your true power the uses to which you put it. Rectify your heart, and you will rectify your life. Lust, hatred, anger, vanity, pride, covetousness, self-indulgence, self-seeking, obstinacy, - all these are poverty and weakness; whereas love, purity, gentleness, meekness, compassion, generosity, self-forgetfulness, and self-renunciation, - all these are wealth and power. 4. The old, materialistic belief that a man is what his body makes him, is rapidly passing away, and is being replaced by the inspiring belief that man is superior to his body, and that his body is what he makes it by the power of thought. Get Your Copy Now!