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    The Mastery of Destiny: With an Essay from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin
    The Mastery of Destiny: With an Essay from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin
    The Mastery of Destiny: With an Essay from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin
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    The Mastery of Destiny: With an Essay from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin

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    “The Mastery of Destiny” is a 1909 self-help book by British writer James Allen. Self-help books aim to help the reader with problems, offering them clear and effective guidance on how obstacles can be passed and solutions found, especially with regard to common issues and day-to-day life. Such books take their name from the 1859 best-selling “Self-Help” by Samuel Smiles, and are often also referred to as "self-improvement" books. Contents include: “Deeds, Characters, and Destiny”, “The Science of Self-control”, “Cause and Effect in Human Conduct”, “Training of the Will”, “Thoroughness”, “Mind-building and Life-building”, “Cultivation of Concentration”, “Practice of Meditation”, “The Power of Purpose”, “The Joy of Accomplishment”, etc. James Allen (1864–1912) was a British writer most famous for his inspirational poetry and being an early leader of the self-help movement. “As a Man Thinketh” (1903), his best known work, has been a significant source of inspiration for many self-help authors. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an Essay from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateOct 11, 2019
    ISBN9781528788205
    The Mastery of Destiny: With an Essay from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin
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    James Allen

    James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family, after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early 1900s, when he became increasingly known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's-who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill.

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      The Mastery of Destiny - James Allen

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      THE

      MASTERY OF DESTINY

      With an Essay from

      Within You is the Power

      By Henry Thomas Hamblin

      By

      JAMES ALLEN

      First published in 1909

      This edition published by Read Books Ltd.

      Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      "Thou art no longer grim, O Destiny!

      No Longer art thou drear and dark and dread,

      Absolute king and god arbitrary

      Seated in tragic state among the dead

      Friendly and fair to man I see thee now,

      And light and beauty round thy lordly brow."

      Contents

      HAPPINESS AND JOY.

      THE MASTERY OF DESTINY

      DEEDS, CHARACTER, AND DESTINY

      THE SCIENCE OF SELF-CONTROL

      CAUSE AND EFFECT IN HUMAN CONDUCT

      TRAINING OF THE WILL

      THOROUGHNESS

      MIND-BUILDING AND LIFE-BUILDING

      CULTIVATION OF CONCENTRATION

      PRACTICE OF MEDITATION

      THE POWER OF PURPOSE

      THE JOY OF ACCOMPLISHMENT

      HAPPINESS AND JOY.

      An Excerpt from

      Within You is the Power

      By Henry Thomas Hamblin

      Deep down in every heart is an unquenchable desire for happiness. The advanced soul desires happiness just as much as the pleasure-seeking worldling, the difference between them is simply that the former, through knowledge and experience, does not search for happiness, knowing that it can never be found by direct seeking, but finds it through service and love to others and in victory over self; while the latter seeks happiness, like a will-o'-the-wisp, in every form of pleasure, and finds it not.

      Man is never satisfied with his life: he is for ever seeking something that is better. Until he learns wisdom, he looks for it in pleasure, in sense gratification of various kinds, in wealth, luxury and possession. The less evolved a man is the more convinced he is that happiness can be gained in these ways, and the lower are his desires. For instance, those who form what is called the underworld of our cities, seek happiness in vice and debauchery. Those who are more evolved seek pleasure in more refined things, hoping to find happiness in intellectual pursuits, friendships, and in pure human loves. These more evolved types get much more pleasure through the senses than do those who are more elemental, but they are capable also of greater and more acute suffering. They can derive great pleasure from a picture gallery, whereas a savage would see nothing interesting at all: they can also suffer from things which a savage would not be capable of feeling. Yet, in spite of this developed refinement and ability to derive pleasure from art, science, literature, etc., happiness is still as far off as ever. All attempts at finding happiness lead finally to emptiness. There is no satisfaction, either in wealth and all that it can command, getting on in life, or in fame and power. They allure at first and promise happiness, but they fail us, and finally are seen to be but vanity and vexation of spirit.

      This desire for happiness is good, for it leads us through innumerable experiences so that the soul can realize, by practical experience, the emptiness of all self-seeking, and thus learn wisdom. After running the whole gamut of experience the soul learns at last that happiness is not something that can be found by seeking it, but is an inward mental state.

      Although work, well done, brings a quiet sense of satisfaction, and success in one's career may also be a source of gratification for a short time, yet even these cannot satisfy the deep longing of the soul.

      Happiness, however, is to be found in service. Not if we seek happiness in service, and serve in order to be happy, but if we serve others for the sake of serving we find the only happiness that will endure and satisfy.

      One has only to observe the lives of those who are always selfishly seeking and grabbing, who are hard in their dealings, and always looking after number one, in order to see how impossible it is for self-seekers to be happy. It does not matter whether they acquire riches or remain poor—they are equally unhappy. In contrast to this, you have only to go out of your way to do a kind and perfectly disinterested action and experience the glow of sheer happiness that it brings, in order to realize that you are dealing with a law of life that is as sure and unalterable as the law of gravitation.

      There must be a purpose in life, and this must have for its object the betterment of the lives

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