Chapter 2
The garden metaphor: 'A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild' - prescription for weeding wrong thoughts.
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From As a Man Thinketh by Allen, James
Though brief and philosophical, the book prescribes self-observation, guarding thoughts as one would guard a garden, linking thought to purpose, meditation on ideals, and patient self-control.
Chapter 4
Prescription to fix a central purpose and make it the centralizing point of thoughts, slaying doubt and fear.
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Prescription of sacrifice: to rise in life one must sacrifice animal indulgences and base thoughts for noble ones.
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