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Above Life's Turmoil
James Allen · 1864–1912
A sequence of brief essays on finding a settled mind amid change and loss: on true happiness, on overcoming the self, on the uses of temptation, on the quiet strength of those who have stopped quarrelling with life. Allen at his most meditative.
- First published
- 1910
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Reading time
- Not measured
- Translation
- Written in English
- peace of mind
- self-overcoming
- temptation
- happiness
Where to read it
Copyright
- Kenya
- Public domain (author d. 1912)
- United States
- Public domain (published 1910)
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Questions for discussion
Allen treats temptation as useful. What does he think it teaches?
Is the calm he describes available to someone with real external troubles, or only to the comfortable?
Compare Allen's serenity with the Stoic calm of Marcus Aurelius. Where do they differ?
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