He emphasized nonconformity and self-education. The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale (1956) - The radio presenter and entrepreneur Nightingale possessed an unfailingly dignified and measured manner, which he used in this recorded lecture to distill the positive-thinking philosophy into a neat 30-minute capsule. ( MORE: Hopefulness Is Better Than Happiness for Diet Success)ġ. While many of these books proved too esoteric in tone to attain the mass appeal of Dale Carnegie and Joel Osteen, they are a treasure of serviceable ideas and are all still available today. This list considers the most compelling and overlooked expressions of this practical philosophy. You probably believe some of them already. But the philosophy has produced ideas that are deeply useful, even profound. This message grew out of mental-healing and Transcendentalist tracts of the mid-nineteenth century, and attained mass appeal in works such as Norman Vincent Peale’s 1952 The Power of the Positive Thinking.Ĭritics generally view positive thinking as namby-pamby nonsense. Most self-help programs are based in “positive thinking” – the principle that your thoughts shape your destiny. If your life isn't working so great, this book may be just what you need to turn things around.Follow self-help industry today generates literally thousands of books, seminars, and audio programs, on which Americans spend more than $11 billion yearly. If your life is working great, I think this book still holds a lot of insight for you.
Living the way Howard suggests is a lot to ask. That is how they maintain their tricky hold on the mind. In fact, it's a master at scaring you and keeping you bound by it. But why not? If you really want to change you need to be a zealot.
#VERNON HOWARD SUPERMIND FREE#
Then once we understand what that is (that we need to wake up) we'll be free from them. Pain and suffering are our indications that we're living unconsciously and rather than trying to escape from them we should try to understand them. He knows it's not easy, and he knows it can be a long road. Do not try to think let your thoughts think for you. let yourself be led to do whatever happens by itself. What would it be like if I ceased struggling to live my life and just let it be lived for me? Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. If you are studying, reflecting, and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. A courageous effort to see through blandishments and false promises and fears that the world offers and perpetrates on us.ĭo not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Give up the reins and trust Life to take over.īut it takes work.
We just let it decide and happily enjoy the ride.Īnd that's it. When we are in the right stream, we have no concern with the movements of the boat from left to right, that is, we need not care what life decides for us. Reading this book and doing what it suggests will alleviate your psychic and emotional pain. 'Let go and let God.' Live from the 'no-self." Etc. And the wisdom is just gushing out of this book.Īgain Howard's main theme is that we are living unconsciously, tied, painfully, to our "false self," and that our freedom lies in abandoning that false self to our "true self," which is above the petty ego concerns of the false self. As I said in my review of his book The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power I think books like these that get read and reviewed so infrequently is because they are only meant for those with the capacity to receive their wisdom. Loaded with counterintuitive wisdom of the highest order. Granted, another tacky title but who cares.
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