Self-Development and the Way to Power
1910
Self-Development and the Way to Power
1910
This 1910 treatise on personal transformation argues that most people live asleep, passively accepting their circumstances while their true potential remains dormant. Rogers, a teacher and philosopher, insists that suffering stems from ignorance and that genuine happiness awaits those who awaken their latent capacities through disciplined self-culture. He presents desire, will, and intelligence as the trinity of inner power, arguing that these forces, properly directed, allow anyone to reshape their destiny. The book advocates meditation, original thinking, and the pursuit of higher knowledge as practical tools for spiritual illumination. Rogers believed that conscious evolution, deliberately shaping one's character and consciousness, could transform not only the individual but humanity itself. For readers interested in the origins of modern self-help philosophy, this offers a fascinating glimpse into how the genre's core ideas first took form.
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“Every human being must make, and is making, this long evolutionary journey from spiritual infancy to godlike power and perfection, but there are two ways in which it may be done. We may, as the vast majority do, accept the process of unconscious evolution and submit to nature's whip and spur that continuously urge the thoughtless and indifferent forward until they finally reach the goal. Or, we may choose conscious evolution and work intelligently with nature, thus making progress that is comparatively of enormous rapidity and at the same time avoid much of what Hamlet called the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.””
— L. W. Rogers
“SELF DEVELOPMENT AND THE WAY TO POWER””
— L. W. Rogers
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