Thoughts are Things

Including a detailed biographical anntotation on Mulford's life and achievements and the movement he inspired. *** Long before "positive thinking" became a modern self-help staple, Prentice Mulford was already arguing something more radical: that thought itself is a real, active force-one that shapes health, fortune, and circumstance as surely as any physical cause. In "Thoughts Are Things", one of the founding texts of the New Thought movement, Mulford lays out his conviction that mental states are not merely reflections of our lives but the very substance from which our lives are built. Drawing on years spent as a journalist, miner, and wandering seeker before he turned to metaphysical writing, Mulford writes with plainspoken clarity rather than academic abstraction-arguing that fear, worry, and negative thinking are literal drains on vital force, while hope, courage, and directed thought generate real power in the world. His essays on health, prosperity, and the discipline of mental habit would go on to influence generations of self-help writers, from Wallace Wattles to the authors of modern manifestation philosophy. Whether read as spiritual philosophy, early psychology, or the wellspring of an entire genre of American self-improvement literature, "Thoughts Are Things" remains a foundational text for understanding how the modern belief in the power of positive thinking first took shape. *** The series "Large Print Reader's Choice" features classic books with a font size of at least 16 points. This font size is not only highly recommended and useful for visually impaired readers, but generally improves letter and word recognition and reading comprehension. Large print books make your reading experience a more satisfying one.