James Allen Books

“Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has
built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life
there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This
is just as true of those who feel "out of harmony" with their surroundings as of
those who are contented with them.
As the progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn
that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance
contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the
creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power,
and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which
circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any
length of time practiced self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed
that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered
mental condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to
remedy the defects in his character, and makes swift and marked progress, he
passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and
also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished
aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires; and
circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”
― James Allen