Out From The Heart

In this collection of essays, Allen turns inward to consider thought, emotion, and the formation of character as the roots of outward life. The book is notable for extending his New Thought themes into a more intimate and devotional register, with concise meditations on purity, aspiration, and self-mastery.

James Allen was an English philosophical writer whose short works on thought, character, and spiritual self-discipline became central to the New Thought and inspirational literature traditions. Books such as As a Man Thinketh present a moral and quasi-mystical view of the power of mind that has appealed to readers of esoteric and spiritual writing.