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Oct 27, 2026
Stephen EidersteinHOST
The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
First pillar, energy.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
My name is Stephen Eiderstein and welcome to The Narrowing Path, Walking the Spiritual Walk.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
We're going to be doing the rest of this book as a study, so you'll be able to follow right along with us.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
And there's plenty of content in this book, something for everybody that's trying to just find more success in their life.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
So, again, each one of the pillars in this book – James Allen breaks up into four virtues as well to be practiced.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
So it's not just the pillar.
Stephen EidersteinHOST
It gets comprised of four virtues that help, that mix together to form the pillar, I guess is the best way to really say it.
Andrew McGivernHOST
And there's a link right here in the show notes.
Andrew McGivernHOST
Today's quote is from James Allen.
Andrew McGivernHOST
James Allen lived from 1864 to 1912 and was a British philosophical writer and a pioneer of the self-help movement.
Andrew McGivernHOST
His best-known work, As a Man Thinketh, argues that our thoughts shape our character and our lives.
Andrew McGivernHOST
James Allen once said, The body is the servant of the mind.
Andrew McGivernHOST
James Allen wrote this in the chapter called Effective Thought on Health and the Body, and it fits today's story perfectly, because today's story is all about how tangled up the mind and the body can be.
Andrew McGivernHOST
I picked this quote because I was inspired by something that happened at work, and it really made me think.
Andrew McGivernHOST
a customer got on the bus and started telling me about his back and neck pain.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
What about body? Body is a reflection of mind.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
As James Allen had mentioned in As a Man Thinking, when you say body is a servant of mind, I just say reflection of mind because it just operates based on what you place in mind, which is transcendent to this world, transcendent to the brain, transcendent to this world.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
Now, I like to keep it simple.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
You can operate from desired reality or old reality.
Stephen CabralHOST
So this book is called As a Man Thinketh.
Stephen CabralHOST
It is a classic, 120 plus years old, written by James Allen.
Stephen CabralHOST
And I mean, literally, he was born in 1864.
Stephen CabralHOST
So these are great.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
I like to say it that way.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
And I remember reading As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, which is such a wonderful book.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
What he said was, the body is the servant of the mind.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
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Joseph RodriguesHOST
Then the cloud, which represents mind, you can place, as I mentioned, whatever you want in your mind metaphysically, and then it manifests as body is a reflection of mind.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
Neurological changes, nervous system changes, emotional regulation, whatever, behavioral changes, body is a reflection of mind.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
Or you could look at it how James Allen said it, servant of mind, whatever we'd like.
Joseph RodriguesHOST
We could use it interchangeably in this context.
Case LaneHOST
The family needs income.
Case LaneHOST
And James Allen, as a teenager, had to do his part.
James AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But decades later, Allen
Case LaneHOST
would publish one of the most uncompromising books ever written about personal responsibility.
Case LaneHOST
A book built around the proposition that human beings participate in the creation of their lives through their thoughts, the thoughts they repeatedly entertained.
Case LaneHOST
Knowing Allen's story, you would not easily conclude that if you just think happy thoughts and everything will work out.
Case LaneHOST
What James Allen was really saying is that the core of the knowledge to success is this foundation of almost all personal development ideas.
Case LaneHOST
Your results are are the outcome of your thoughts.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
The Introduction, Part Two.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
My name is Steve Van Eiderstein, and welcome to The Narrowing Path, Walking the Spiritual Walk.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
And I'm excited to have everybody come back for this second installment of the new book we're studying, The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
I hope you all have enjoyed the first episode, which was the first half of the introduction.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
And I really, really...
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
Pretty cool.
Steve Van EidersteinHOST
So here we go.
Roger GauthierGUEST
And it set me on this journey to discover life in a new way and i started eating living foods i'm at home i'm depressed because my girlfriend stole the credit card i'm watching tv tony robbins comes on the channel personal power i buy his 175 tape i mean my attitude eric was so bad it was like well i just got robbed of 170 bucks my girlfriend what's another 170 now so i bought his little personal power tapes um Started listening to them.
Roger GauthierGUEST
He talked about a book called As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.
Roger GauthierGUEST
I get the book.
Roger GauthierGUEST
I get excited.
Dwight LeeHOST
What you think upon grows and expands and ultimately becomes your reality.
Dwight LeeHOST
James Allen said, mind is mind and mind is man and evermore he takes the tool of thought And shaping forth what he wills.
Dwight LeeHOST
Brings forth 1,000 joys or 1,000 ills.
Dwight LeeHOST
He thinks in secret and it comes to pass.
Joe GettyHOST
Yeah.
Joe GettyHOST
Here's your freedom-loving quote of the day from James Allen in his classic As a Man Thinketh.
Joe GettyHOST
I said classic as if I have any idea what that book is or anything.
Joe GettyHOST
I've never heard of it.
Joe GettyHOST
now a noble deed is a dream before it is reality the oak sleeps in the acorn the bird waits in the egg and in the highest vision of the soul a beautiful world waits to be realized
Jack ArmstrongHOST
i like that who's that
Joe GettyHOST
uh james allen
Jack ArmstrongHOST
okay
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