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Mastering the Heart and Mind - James Allen

·1 hr 48 min·5 clips
Allen defines the 'essential difference' between a wise man who controls his thinking and a fool who is 'carried captive by every tyrant thought'.
This is a narrated reading of James Allen's philosophical work 'Mastering the Heart and Mind,' which argues that true happiness and triumph over life's sorrows are achieved through rigorous self-control, moral discipline, and the mastery of one's own thoughts and energies. It presents a path from weakness and suffering to strength, calmness, and divine insight.

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A severe, steady case for self-command and moral order.

James Allen treats the inward life as the wellspring of outward life, and self-command as the first duty. The writing keeps returning to moral discipline, courage, patience, and the refusal to be ruled by haste or appetite, so its power lies less in surprise than in sustained…

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Press play if you want a stern reminder that the mind sets the terms, and that self-control is the way from craving toward a better life.

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