Byways to Blessedness: A Spiritual Classic on Inner Peace, Right Thought, and the Path to Happiness

James Allen presents blessedness as the natural result of inward discipline, right thought, patience, humility, and self-mastery. In Byways to Blessedness, he turns from outward success toward the quieter spiritual paths by which character is purified and life becomes more peaceful, useful, and meaningful. The book teaches that happiness is not found by demanding that the world change first, but by changing the thoughts, habits, and attitudes through which the world is met.

Allen writes with...