
The Way of Peace
Author: James Allen
Narrator: James Allen
Unabridged: 2 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: M-Y Books Ltd.
Published: 11/21/2022
Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Meditations, Personal Growth

Author: James Allen
Narrator: James Allen
Unabridged: 2 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: M-Y Books Ltd.
Published: 11/21/2022
Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Meditations, Personal Growth
James Allen (1864-1912) was a British writer and pioneer of the self-help movement. Born to a working-class family in Leicester, England, Allen left school at age fifteen, after which he worked as a private secretary and later as a magazine writer. In 1902, he began to publish his own spiritual magazine, The Light of Reason. Over the course of his life, Allen wrote nineteen books, some of which include As a Man Thinketh, Eight Pillars of Prosperity, Above Life's Turmoil, From Passion to Peace, and From Poverty to Power.
Some books pertaining to the spiritual feel like overly soft pillows, you sink into them with little struggle and then find yourself being smothered. This is definitely not one of those. Hard-hitting, at times searing in its intensity, Mr. Allen is not above calling humanity out for its seeming dedi......more
Allen describes the path to peace as one of becoming one with others with love by abstaining from self-seeking. Are you willing to deny yourself? Self is the denial of truth, truth is the denial of self. In other words, those who cling to selfishness simply cannot find peace because peace does not c......more
This is a spirituality book, I loved the first chapters of finding the inner peace, elevating the mind to the higher realms of spirituality and being contented. Not a very good read, got bored along the way, comparing with Allen's book this was below expectation......more
I couldn't help but hear my old young self debating with this book and me over how it was so wrong. You CAN have peace without guilt, fight, pain, their is no sin in striving for love. Peace can come if you will just stop fighting about who is right about what is truth.......more