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Peace Begins From You

Like the title says, and more importantly James Allen says in the book, "Peace Begins From You." It is then manifested in your life. The next step where selflessness and peace prevail. And when you are peaceful, then success in other areas of life become much easier. To work with a peaceful and a powerful mind is an edge and the advantage.

In the beginning of the book, James Allen gives us the "Five Great Meditations" that Gautama, the Buddha, gave his disciples.

1. The first meditation is the meditation of Love, where you will even long for the welfare of your enemies.

2. The second meditation is the meditation of pity, where you will invoke compassion toward all beings in suffering.

3. The third meditation is the meditation of joy, where you will think about others' prosperity and joy and rejoice in it.

4. The fourth meditation is the meditation of impurity, where you will meditate about those little things about the "self" and how the need to immediate pleasure stop us from the truth.

5. The fifth meditation is the meditation of serenity, where you bring yourself above love & hate, tyranny and oppression, above everything toward truth.

Contents of the Book:

The Power of Meditation
Star of Wisdom
The Two Masters, Self and Truth
The Acquirement of Spiritual Power
The Realization of Selfless Love
Entering into the Infinite
Saints, Sages, and Saviors: The Law of Service
The Realization of Perfect Peace

Some Insights From the Book:

1. Once come to regard your failings, your sorrows and sufferings as so many voices telling you plainly where you are weak and faulty, where you fall below the true and the divine, you will then begin to ceaselessly watch yourself, and every slip, every pang of pain will show you where you are to set to work, and what you have to remove out of your heart in order to bring it nearer to the likeness of the Divine, nearer to the Perfect Love.

2. What the saints, sages, and saviors have accomplished, you likewise may accomplish if you will only tread the way which they trod and pointed out, the way of self-sacrifice, of self-denying service.

3. Truth is the one Reality in the universe, the inward Harmony, the perfect Justice, the eternal Love. Nothing can be added to it, nor taken from it.

4.Change and mortality will no more cause you anxiety and sorrow, for you will become established in the unchangeable, and will dwell in the very heart of immortality.

5. Truth in itself is not hidden and dark. It is always revealed and is perfectly transparent. But the blind and wayward self cannot perceive it. The light of day is not hidden except to the blind, and the Light of Truth is not hidden except to those who are blinded by self.

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About the Author: James Allen (28 November 1864 - 24 January 1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1903. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.

In 1903 Allen published his third and most famous book As a Man Thinketh. Loosely based on the Biblical passage of Proverbs 23:7, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," the small work eventually became read around the world and brought Allen posthumous fame as one of the pioneering figures of modern inspirational thought.

Allen published his own spiritual magazine, The Light of Reason, later retitled The Epoch.

His wife continued publishing the magazine under the name The Epoch. Lily Allen summarised her husband's literary mission in the preface to one of his posthumously published manuscripts, Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success saying:

"He never wrote theories, or for the sake of writing; but he wrote when he had a message, and it became a message only when he had lived it out in his own life, and knew that it was good. Thus he wrote facts, which he had proven by practice."