Arnold Bennett

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

“ I am living a bit; I want to live more.”
“ You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul.”—Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett was a prolific writer. His books appealed to a wide public and sold in large numbers. This small book (How to Live on 24 Hours a Day) is a series of lessons in psychic influence, thought-force, time management and will-power. It’s a practical, funny and inspiring guide to psychology. Bennett writes about how to live the present moment in its total richness and shares some tips on how to improve your spirituality, your mindfulness and your well-being that you can apply to your everyday life.
While not a professional psychologist, Mr. Bennett has given utterance to some of the most valuable and practical psychological truths of the last years, his contributions to this branch of human thought is sure to be recognized and appreciated by spiritual seekers.

LARGE PRINT EDITION.

Contents:
PREFACE
I. THE DAILY MIRACLE
II. THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE'S PROGRAMME
III. PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING
IV. THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES
V. TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL
VI. REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE
VII. CONTROLLING THE MIND
VIII. THE REFLECTIVE MOOD
IX. INTEREST IN THE ARTS
X. NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM
XI. SERIOUS READING
XII. DANGERS TO AVOID

Excerpt: “The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. A highly singular commodity, showered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity itself!
For remark! No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Talk about an ideal democracy! In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you.”

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alicia Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782357286986
• Artikelnr.: 61125776

Autorenporträt

Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films. In 1889 Bennett won a literary competition run by the magazine Tit-Bits and was encouraged to take up journalism full-time. In 1894 he became assistant editor of the magazine Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial that was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds (equivalent to £10,000 in 2016). He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later his novel A Man from the North was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine. In 1900 Bennett gave up the editorship of Woman and dedicated himself to writing full-time. However, he continued to write for newspapers and magazines while finding success in his career as a novelist. In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the London newspaper the Evening Standard. One of Bennett's most popular non-fiction works was the self-help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. His diaries have yet to be published in full, but extracts from them have often been quoted in the British press.