
Inspiration, Empowerment & Personal Growth Classics in One Volume
Acres of Diamonds and Other New Thought Lessons on Opportunity, Will Power, and ServiceBy Russell ConwellLength12h 52m
About this audiobook
This carefully crafted ebook: "Inspiration, Empowerment & Personal Growth Classics in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The original inspiration for his most famous essay, "Acres of Diamonds", occurred in 1869 when Conwell was traveling in the Middle East. The central idea of the work is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune—the resources to achieve all good things are present in one's own community. This theme is developed by an introductory anecdote, credited by Conwell to an Arab guide, about a man who wanted to find diamonds so badly that he sold his property and went off in futile search for them. The new owner of his home discovered that a rich diamond mine was located right there on the property. Conwell elaborates on the theme through examples of success, genius, service, or other virtues involving ordinary Americans contemporary to his audience: "dig in your own backyard!". The book has been regarded as a classic of New Thought literature since the 1870s.
Russell Conwell (1843-1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, Acres of Diamonds.
Table of Contents:
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities
The Key to Success
Increasing Personal Efficiency
Every Man His Own University
What You Can Do With Your Will Power
Health, Healing, and Faith
Praying for Money
Subconscious Religion
Why Lincoln Laughed
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help
Length12 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities
31Chapter I. Effect of Environment
2The Key to Success
32Chapter II. How a Church Was Built by Prayer
3Foreword
33Chapter III. Healing the Sick
4Chapter I. Observation—The Key To Success
34Chapter IV. Prayer for the Home
5Chapter II. Who the Real Leaders Are
35Chapter V. Prayer and the Bible
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter III. Mastering Natural Forces
36Praying for Money
7Chapter IV. Whom Mankind Shall Love
37Chapter I. Spiritual Telepathy
8Chapter V. Need of Orators
38Chapter II. Day of Pentecost
9Chapter VI. Woman's Influence
39Chapter III. Axioms
10Increasing Personal Efficiency
40Chapter IV. Praying for Money
11Chapter I. Women
41Chapter V. Unanswered Prayers
12Chapter II. Musical Culture
42Chapter VI. Prayer for Others
13Chapter III. Oratory
43Chapter VII. Forms of Prayer
14Chapter IV. Self-Help
44Subconscious Religion
15Chapter V. Some Advice to Young Men
45Chapter I. Does God Answer Christians Only?
16Every Man His Own University
46Chapter II. Conflicting Prayers
17Chapter I. Every Man's University
47Chapter III. Subconscious Religion
18Chapter II. Animals and "The Least Things"
48Chapter IV. Praying for Visions of Heaven
19Chapter III. The Bottom Rung
49Chapter V. Great Prayers
20Chapter IV. Home Reading
50Chapter VI. Use of the Bible in Prayer
21Chapter V. Thoughtfulness
51Chapter VII. Conclusions
22Chapter VI. Instincts and Individuality
52Foreword
23What You Can Do With Your Will Power
53Chapter I. When Lincoln Was Laughed At
24Preface
54Chapter II. President and Pilgrim
25Chapter I. Success has no secret—
55Chapter III. Lincoln Reads Artemus Ward Aloud
26Chapter II. There is a deplorable tendency—
56Chapter IV. Some Lincoln Anecdotes
27Chapter III. The biography of that great patriot—
57Chapter V. What Made Him Laugh
28Chapter IV. In a small town in Western Massachusetts—
58Chapter VI. Humor in the Political Situation
29Health, Healing, and Faith
59Chapter VII. Why Lincoln Loved Laughter
30Foreword
60Chapter VIII. Lincoln and John Brown