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AN EXCERPT FROM AS A MAN THINKETH BY JAMES ALLEN.
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Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without. Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labour; confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled, and lacking all the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty. He conceives of, mentally builds up, an ideal condition of life; the vision of a wider liberty and a larger scope takes possession of him; unrest urges him to action, and he utilizes all his spare time and means, small though they are, to the development of his latent powers and resources. Very soon, so altered has his mind become that the workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside, and, with the growth of opportunities, which fit the scope of his exp...
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Is there something others have been trying to help you see about yourself that needs to change? Proverbs 12:15 says, “The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.” Could it be true that GOD is speaking to you through those who love you most? Denying the truth does not change the fact. If more than two trusted friends or family members have suggested that we change some certain aspect of our lives that are unhealthy, maybe it’s time for us to pause and pay attention. We all need that true person(s) in our lives that will always tell us the truth, even if the rest of the world is giving us accolades. It is truly a blessing to have sincere and truthful people in our lives who will always tell us the truth or call us to order, even if it hurts.
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