James Allen was a British philosophical writer and poet and a pioneer of the selfhelp movement. At the turn of the 20th century he was one of the most popular writers on spirituality his many books comforting millions of readers with their simple unpretentious wisdom about living a joyful life. The problem of life consists in learning how to live. It is like the problem of addition or subtraction to the schoolboy. When mastered all difficulty disappears and the problem has vanished. All the pro