Tradition
New Thought
A movement that began in the United States in the late nineteenth century, from the teaching of Phineas Quimby and writers who followed him, and which holds that thought is causal — that the content and quality of a person's thinking shapes their character, their circumstances and their health. It produced a large popular literature in the decades around 1900, and the modern vocabulary of manifestation, affirmation and the law of attraction descends from it directly.
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PracticeAn instruction for practice
As a Man Thinketh, “Serenity”Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of…PracticeAn instruction for practice
As a Man Thinketh, “Visions and Ideals”The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the…