The Universe can sometimes be too funny.
Yesterday was a very intense workday, capped by a delightful dinner at Plant with Susan and Val and Belle.
Perhaps the funniest moment of the day, however, was this Cosmic Wink.
I got a copy of AS A MAN THINKETH by James Allen, written in 1903, from the Library because it’s one of those classic “Think and Grow Rich” genre of books recommended by David Neagle, but one I’ve never read.
Casually picking it up yesterday and asking for insight, I immediately opened on a passage which began: “Perhaps you are living in a small cottage…” –– which of course I am. I mean … Come on!
Although I am decidedly NOT surrounded by “unhealthy and vicious influences” (click on the photo, to see the entire paragraph and page) as the passage continues –– I live in perhaps the nicest part of what I think is the most beautiful city in America, with the nicest humans and of course, Belle –– I did have to think opening to that was a rather clear indication that this book has something to say to me, a dweller in a small cottage.
I actually love the book –– I’m alternating between it and SAVE THE CAT, which is GENIUS –– and just opened to this wonderful passage:
“The fairy folk, so small and nearly always invisible yet possessed of an all-conquering and magical power, who bestow upon the good, health, wealth, and happiness along with all the gifts of nature in lavish profusion, start again into reality and become immortalized in the soul-realm of those who, by growth in wisdom, have entered into a knowledge of the power of thought and the laws which govern the inner world of being.”
And honestly –- can’t you almost see the fairy folk abiding in this view from where I sit, toiling away.
And actually, I only now realize that that passage is from Allen’s first book, FROM POVERTY TO POWER, which is in the same volume.
AS A MAN THINKETH is only 45 pages (!) it turns out, ending with a fantastic chapter on SERENITY:
“Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, ‘Peace, be still!'”
Can this small cottage dweller get an “Amen?”
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