James Allen Quotes About Responsibility

All These Things Added (1903), Part II, “The Heavenly Life,” chapter “Perfect Freedom,” printed page 140 / Wikisource scan leaf 146. “The tree of Freedom is rooted in Duty” introduces Allen’s claim that willing duty belongs to the inward freedom he is describing. The retained context is explicitly religious and moral rather than a universal clinical, legal or political rule.

All These Things Added (1903), Part II, “The Heavenly Life,” chapter “Perfect Freedom,” printed page 139 / Wikisource scan leaf 145. “Freedom resides in individual self-conquest” appears in Allen’s contrast between outward agitation and the inward emancipation he associates with mastery of passion, error and ignorance; this remains his spiritual-moral conception of freedom, not a modern political definition.

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Effect of Thought on Circumstances.”

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Thought and Purpose,” in the authorized edition.

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Effect of Thought on Circumstances”; the sentence introduces Allen’s claim that self-examination can change a person’s relation to circumstances.

Out from the Heart; Allen uses the sentinel image while describing responsibility for guarding and ordering one’s thought.

The Mastery of Destiny, “Training of the Will,” rule four; Wikisource 1909 text. It is practical self-discipline advice in Allen’s period framework.

The Way of Peace, “The Realization of Perfect Peace,” Project Gutenberg #10740. Allen places this sentence in a religious exhortation about surrendering selfish desires and entering what he calls an inward resting-place; it is period spiritual teaching, not a claim that distress is always voluntarily chosen.