Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

The Warrior's Prayer - Stuart Wilde

The Warrior's Prayer


I am what I am
In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust.
In softness I have strength.
In silence I walk with the gods.
In peace I understand myself and the world.
In conflict I walk away.
In detachment I am free.
In respecting all living things, I respect myself.
In dedication I honor the courage within me.
In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all things.
In love I unconditionally accept the evolution of others.
In freedom I have power.
In my individuality, I express the God-Force within me.
In service I give what I have become.
I am what I am:
Eternal, immortal, universal and infinite.
And so be it.

~Stuart Wilde

What I Believe: Spiritual Living

I Bargained With Life For A Penny

I bargained with life for a penny
And life would pay no more
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store

For life is just an employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.

The Supreme Self

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure… Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.
– Orison Swett Marden

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live

Tortoise helps tortoise.( Nature is a Powerful Teacher)

Abraham Hicks - The Gathering of Teachers (NEW)

By The River Piedre I Sat Down & Wept: Paulo Coelho

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracles of life when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Every day, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived that moment, that it doesn’t exist – that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quite that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists – a moment when all the power of the stars become a part of us and enable us to perform miracles.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but is is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments – but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.”

Pitiful are the people who must realize this. Because when they are finally able to believe in miracles, their life’s magic moments will have already passed them by.

Winner of China's Got Talent Final 2010 - Armless Pianist Liu Wei Perfor...

This Man is Inspiration itself. A Powerful demonstration of Vision over Circumstance/Condition. Being a Victim or a Master is a CHOICE. We are all greater than our circumstance. Excuses or your dreams.

Have No Regrets

Having regrets is a denial of the perfection of your path. Our ‘errors’ shape us & are keys to success. When mis-takes are embraced with awareness & acceptance we immediately expand & evolve. Having regrets stunts our growth, keeps us stuck in the past & offers no creative force in the present moment. We rewrite the past with awareness & we repeat it with regret. You are not bound by your mistakes unless you say so.See More
– ~Judah Isvaran

Quantumn Breakthrough Course™ 7

Join me in Omaha, Nebraska December 3rd-5th as I facilitate the Quantum Breakthrough Course™ presented by Kristine Kay Caputo & her Be Your Change Staff™. It is an honor to stand with her in her Vision to make a difference in her community & state...so many lives have been powerfully impacted & transformed. This Course is guaranteed to have you on Fire for your Life...It's time to BECOME YOUR DREAM. Yes!

Sarah Silverman's Message To America, On Gay Suicide

KEVIN SPACEY WISE WORDS!!!!!!

KEVIN SPACEY WISE WORDS!!!!!!

17 Principles of Personal Achievment by Napoleon Hill

Lesson 1: Definiteness of Purpose
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly through life.

Lesson 2: Mastermind Alliance
The Mastermind principle consists of an allian...ce of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common definite objective. Success does not come without the cooperation of others.

Lesson 3: Applied Faith
Faith is a state of mind through which your aims, desires, plans and purposes may be translated into their physical or financial equivalent.

Lesson 4: Going the Extra Mile
Going the extra mile is the action of rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid. When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play.

Lesson 5: Pleasing Personality
Personality is the sum total of one’s mental, spiritual and physical traits and habits that distinguish one from all others. It is the factor that determines whether one is liked or disliked by others.

Lesson 6: Personal Initiative
Personal initiative is the power that inspires the completion of that which one begins. It is the power that starts all action. No person is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own.

Lesson 7: Positive Mental Attitude
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Lesson 8: Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is faith in action. It is the intense emotion known as burning desire. It comes from within, although it radiates outwardly in the expression of one’s voice and countenance.

Lesson 9: Self-Discipline
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of thought. If you do not control your thoughts, you cannot control your needs. Self-discipline calls for a balancing of the emotions of your heart with the reasoning faculty of your head.

Lesson 10: Accurate Thinking
The power of thought is the most dangerous or the most beneficial power available to man, depending on how it is used.

Lesson 11: Controlled Attention
Controlled attention leads to mastery in any type of human endeavor, because it enables one to focus the powers of his mind upon the attainment of a definite objective and to keep it so directed at will.

Lesson 12: Teamwork
Teamwork is harmonious cooperation that is willing, voluntary and free. Whenever the spirit of teamwork is the dominating influence in business or industry, success is inevitable. Harmonious cooperation is a priceless asset that you can acquire in proportion to your giving.

Lesson 13: Adversity & Defeat
Individual success usually is in exact proportion of the scope of the defeat the individual has experienced and mastered. Many so-called failures represent only a temporary defeat that may prove to be a blessing in disguise.

Lesson 14: Creative Vision
Creative vision is developed by the free and fearless use of one’s imagination. It is not a miraculous quality with which one is gifted or is not gifted at birth.

Lesson 15: Health
Sound health begins with a sound health consciousness, just as financial success begins with a prosperity consciousness.

Lesson 16: Budgeting Time & Money
Time and money are precious resources, and few people striving for success ever believe they possess either one in excess.

Lesson 17: Habits
Developing and establishing positive habits leads to peace of mind, health and financial security. You are where you are because of your established habits and thoughts and deeds.See More
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First the Nazi's Came.

First the Nazis came…
First they came for the communists, & I did not speak out —
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, & I did not speak out —
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, & I did not speak out —
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, & I did not speak out —
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me —
& there was no one left to speak out for me.~
Martin Niemöller

Validation

John's Breakthrough

The Moment of Choice

"There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again." ~Gary Zukav

Imagination

"The change you desire to make hinges upon whether you imagine yourself having them.

Our imagination :
is the womb of all creation.

Everything that exists begins in your mind, even the changes you desire to make.

If you can not imagine yourself or your life different than it is, it will be next to impossible to create change.


As you go to sleep ~.~ at night begin to imagine the changes you'd like to make in your life;

See yourself :

at your ideal weight,
working a job you love,
being in a loving relationship.

Being It it Being You

It doesn't matter what you desire,
as long as you are able to imagine it.

Remember imagination isn't visualization.

Imagination is your ability to perceive all :

of your senses !~~~
in your mind,
touch,
taste,
smell,
hearing
and seeing

(visualization).~Unknown

Meister Ekhart

"Be aware of yourself and where you are, then just take distance with yourself, this is the best thing to do."

And what about the 4 steps to unblock your mind:

1) Don´t imagine how things should have been better if everything happened otherwise

2) Stop comparing yourself always with those who seem better than you.

3) Be grateful for all the time you enjoyed something (or someone) till it was gone (if "thanks" will be the only word you ever know this will be enough)
4) Be fully conscious in all you still can enjoy for today and the days to come.

"Who is fine with him/herself is fine everywhere,with anyone. Who feels bad about him/herself never will be fine where he or she is or with whoever met"

Bob Newhart-Stop It!!

Dean Ornish and Deepak Chopra at TEDMED 2009

Success & Consciousness

Success in its infinite expressions, is not influenced by luck, fate, or chance, these are false beliefs. Your Life/Success is determined by your Consciousness. Fortune begins IN you, not by the roll of the dice. This is a Universe of Perfect Order. Your life is equal to your thoughts/beliefs about it. Reality reveals ...what you believe yourself to BE. Change your thoughts & your world changes. 'I AM'. ~ Judah Isvaran

New Policy of service....

New Policy in effect: Serving all committed to living from the Consciousness of Success...Those seeking to be convinced of their Greatness no one can do that but you. Self Reliance is realized with Commitment, Willingness & the Fire of Enthusiasm. All others when you are ready to be BOLD, live life on the edge & Risk......I AM here. I AM Possibility in a circumstance Free Zone.~Judah Isvaran

Universal Truth Principle

Truth....Universal Principle.
Any issue/challenge you are facing, put it up against these two:
1. Belief in Scarcity....(not enough, lack, limitation)
2. Belief in Separation...(Me, I, Them, They, Those, She, Him)
The Solution lies in the belief you are clinging to.

luther vandross the impossible dream live

A 3 Step Process to Transform a Crisis or Change from the Inside Out

Pema Chodron

"…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, beneficial for us, it’s with us wherever we are."
— Pema Chödrön

Look for The Good in Others

Trying to change someone is a waste of time. The very thought of changing someone is saying that they are not good enough as they are, and it is soaked with judgment and disapproval. That is not a thought of ...appreciation or love, and those thoughts will only bring separation between you and that person.

You must look for the good in people to have more of it appear. As you look only for the good things in a person, you will be amazed at what your new focus reveals.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne

Mary Mannin Morrisey (Abundance)

Service.

I am not here to please you, I am here to serve you.~Sharon Sedgwick

Genius

"Never doubt for even one minute that there is genius within you, awaiting your recognition of it. No matter what the gift of your genius may be, the magic ingredient in manifesting it is always the same: discipline. The “D” word sends chills down many a spine, and there are times when I resist it with all my might. When I do catch myself resisting the D word, I often use this visualization: Think of discipline as a drilling tool, boring through all the layers of resistance, cutting straight through to the core of your creative genius. See the energy of that genius flowing out into expression through you. Discipline gives focus and direction to our energy of intention, which in turn unleashes the genius." ~Dennis Merritt Jones

"In my work with people, I never cease to be amazed at how often they tend to focus on what they don’t have in life rather than the incredible good they do have. It is not just folk wisdom that tells us we should be focusing on the good in our lives now, it is understanding the spiritual dynamics of a universe that only knows how to increase the energy of that upon which we focus our attention. The universe doesn’t know or care if our glass is half empty or half full, that is a determination we make." ~Dennis Merritt Jones

Every experience serves a higher purpose...

Every "Saint" has past & every "Sinner" has a future...we are not bound by our mis~takes & errors we are liberated by them when embraced with awareness. Never allow others to condemn or hold you to a moment no longer here. Keep choosing, evolving, & risking. With our challenges we transcend & grow. In Truth there are no mistakes every experience serves a higher purpose.~Judah Isvaran

Direction versus Speed.

‎"Be easy with yourself, know that where you are is perfect...never doubt that you are on the PATH...awaken to it, be conscious in it, be alive in it, have Faith in it...the Universe does not know time & space. Honor your Path by realizing there is no where to get to, the journey is PRESENCE. Direction is more important than speed. "~Judah Isvaran

James Allen Quotes - As A Man Thinketh

Faith

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~ Ben Okri

Mark Gungor-Men's Brain Women's Brain-EXTENDED.mp4

The Path Of The Phoenix

Mike & The Mechanics - The living Years

The Living Years

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

So Don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be O.K.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

"I Pray that You Will See the Best of Life, the Best of Love, The Very Best of EVERYTHING!”

"I Pray that You Will See the Best of Life, the Best of Love, The Very Best of EVERYTHING!”

Rickie Byars Beckwith
The Agape International Spiritual Centre Choir

There’s a new territory that I never saw before.
Like a fire of transformation breaking through my core.
It’s shining in the darkness.
I can see the light of day.
And this new territory, is my strength, it is my way.

There’s a new territory that I never saw before.
Like a fire of transformation breaking through my core.
It’s shining in the darkness.
I can see the light of day.
And this new territory, is my strength, it is my way.

Said this new territory is my strength and so I pray…

Well I pray… I pray...
That you… that you...
Will see the best of life…
The best of love...
The very best of every thing!

Well I pray… I pray...
That you… that you...
Will see the best of life…
The best of love...
The very best of every thing!

Wake up! Wake up!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

Wake up! Wake up!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

FORGIVE! FORGIVE!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

FORGIVE! FORGIVE!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

SAY YES! SAY YES!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

SAY YES! SAY YES!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

LET GO! LET GO!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

LET GO! LET GO!
And see the best of life…
The best of love…
The very best of every thing!

I PRAY. I PRAY. You see the best of life, the best of love, the very best of everything.

Well, I pray, that you, will see the best of life, the best of love, the very best of everything!

Well, I pray that you will see the best of life, the best of love, the very best of everything.

(Rev Michael Speaking:)
As you look around the room for a moment with your eyes open…
You’re releasing a secret and sacred and silent prayer for each and every individual in this room.
You’re wishing them the best of life, the very best of love, & the very best of EVERYTHING!

You’re coming into an awareness as you are conferring this blessing upon each and every individual - that you get to keep what you give away!
So as you are giving away these blessings...
As you are honouring & respecting each other…
Calling forth the highest & best within each other…
All of THAT is getting on YOU!
All of THAT is being retained by YOUR soul!

You’re keeping what you’re giving away.
And you’re giving away the highest & the best!
You’re seeing the visual spectacularity of each other.
Unique configurations of infinite potential…
Infinite possibility…
Breaking through the PRISM…
NOT the “PRISON”…
But through the PRISM that’s refracting the light into all of this uniqueness & diversity…
That we together can continue to build a kind and a just global society...
Beginning with our own house...
Our own body…
Our own neighborhood...
Our own family...
Our own spiritual community...

Let us keep this prayer ALIVE until our LIFE is LITERALLY and FIGURATIVELY “A PRAYER WITHOUT CEASING”!!
And we shall be the angels & the agents of change in our society.
All needs met in our society...
Healthcare in our society…
Education in our society…
Love in our society.

We are the angels & the agents of CHANGE!

SEE THE BEST!

(All Singing!)
I pray that you will see the best of life, the best of love, the very best of EVERYTHING!

David Icke On 2012 & Beyond

If you could save the world, would you?

Imperfectly Perfect & Free to Be.

"I AM unfolding Perfection....Whole, Perfect & Complete Now. I AM Grateful for every mis-take that sharpens my awareness, raises my consciousness & re~minds me what I AM. I AM not bound by any mis-take, person or thing. My mis-takes liberate me. If I AM not making mis-takes I AM not risking. If I AM not risking I AM not alive. Imperfectly Perfect & free to BE."~Judah Isvaran

Relationship

“The more connections you and your lover
make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your
hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your
relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.”
-Barbara De Angelis

Fear...Cheri Huber

Fear is not what you think it is. Fear is not who you are underneath your facade. Fear is not the real you that you must somehow fix or improve or overcome. Fear is a very useful signal along the path to freedom. The stronger the fear, the closer you are to what you are seeking. If you want to stay "safe (i.e. stuck where you are), fear tells you to stop what you are doing, But if you want to be free, fear lets you know you are on the right track, it is a signal to push ahead in the same direction, to pick up the pace.

~ Cheri Huber

Quantum Breakthrough Course 6....September 10th-12th 2010...Become Your dream!

the speech JFK wrote that got him murdered

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

Pain=Cure (Rumi)

"Don't get lost in your pain! Know that ONE DAY....your pain will become your CURE." ~ Rumi

THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon:

where there is doubt, faith ;

where there is despair, hope

where there is darkness, light

where there is sadness, joy

O divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love;

for it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen

What you Have is what you need....

"Delays are not denials.... We live and have our being in a Divinely Ordered Universe...All is Unfolding Perfectly. What you have is what you need...the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. See the beauty in WHAT IS...this is Gratitude. There is nothing Better than NOW."~Judah Isvaran

A Time to Break the Silence - Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

Martin Luther King on Serving

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Drum Major Instinct

Speech By S N Goenka in U.N. Peace Summit ( Part 1 )

Spiritual Liberation

"Compassion is one of the highest forms of love because compassion is the understanding of a person's lack of understanding.
"Sympathy asks, "How do you feel?", empathy says, "I will feel for you" but compassion says, "I understand, how can I serve to alleviate your suffering?". Generosity softens the hard places in our heart. As our heart opens we experience a sense of expansion, of prosperity, energy, finances and other resources." - Michael Bernard Beckwith, Spiritual Liberation

Law of Thinking

Spirituality

"If there can be a definition of spirituality, it is the tuning of the heart. Tuning means the changing of pitch of the vibrations, in order that one may reach a certain pitch that is the natural pitch; then one feels the joy and ecstasy of life, which enables one to give pleasure to others even by one's presence, because one is tuned." Hazrat Inayat Khan

There is Abundance....

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:25-34

The Child in Our Soul

The Child in Our Soul

"If we ar not reborn-if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence & enthusiasm of childhood-it makes no sense to go on living. We have to pay attention to what the child in our heart tells us. We must allow the child to take the reins our lives. The child knows that each day is different from every other day. We have to allow it to feel loved again. We must please this child-even it means that we act in ways that we are not used to, in ways that seem foolish to others But if we listen to the child that lives in our Soul, our eyes will grow bright. If we do not lose contact with that child, we will not lose contact with life."~Paulo Coelho

Attract Ideal People By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Attract Ideal People By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

How to find those you want and need.

    

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

If you saw the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, you probably came away remembering the concept that if you pursue a dream, you will succeed (or, “If you build it, they will come”). I mention this because I’m suggesting that if you commit yourself to matching up with the field of intention, everyone you desire or need to fulfill your personal intention will appear. How can that be? The moment you definitely commit yourself to being a part of the power of intention, “then Providence moves too,” and unforeseen assistance comes your way.
The right people will arrive to assist you in every aspect of your life: The people who will support you in your career are there; the people who will help you create your perfect home show up; the people who will arrange the finances for whatever you desire are available; the driver you need to get you to the airport is waiting for you; the designer you’ve admired wants to work with you; the dentist you need in an emergency when you’re on vacation just happens to be there; and your spiritual soul mate finds you.
The list is endless because we’re all in relationship to each other, we all emanate from the same Source, and we all share the same divine energy of intention. There’s no place that this universal mind is not; therefore, you share it with everyone you attract into your life.
You’ll have to let go of any resistance to your ability to attract the right people, or you won’t recognize them when they show up in your everyday life. Resistance may be difficult to recognize at first, because it’s such a familiar form of your thoughts, your emotions, and your energy levels. If you believe that you’re powerless to attract the right people, then you’ve attracted powerlessness into your experience. If you’re attached to the idea of being stuck with the wrong people or no people at all, then your energy isn’t aligned with the power of intention, and resistance reigns. The field of intention has no choice but to send you more of what you’re desiring. So, make a somersault into the inconceivable, where you have faith and trust in the universal mind of intention, and allow the right people to arrive in your life right on schedule.
Once you’ve formed a picture in your mind of the person or people that you intend to show up in your life, and you know how you want them to treat you and what they’ll be like, you must be what it is that you’re seeking. This is a universe of attraction and energy. You can’t have a desire to attract a mate who is confident, generous, non-judgmental, and gentle, and expect that desire to be manifested if you’re thinking and acting in non-confident, selfish, judgmental, or arrogant ways—which is why most people don’t attract the right people at the right time.
More than 30 years ago, I wanted to attract a publisher into my life for my book, Your Erroneous Zones. This publisher would have to be understanding since I was an unknown writer at the time, and would have to be a risk taker, willing to let go of any doubts about me.
My literary agent arranged a meeting with an executive editor, whom I’ll refer to as George, at a large New York publishing house. As I sat down to talk with him, it was obvious to me that he was personally distraught. I asked him what was troubling him, and we proceeded to spend the next three to four hours talking about a devastating personal matter that had just transpired the night before. George’s wife had told him that she was going to seek a divorce, and he felt as though he’d been blindsided by this news. I let go of my own desires to talk about getting my book published and became what it was that I was seeking: an understanding, confident, risk-taking person. By being that very thing and detaching from my ego-dominated desires, I was able to help George out that afternoon, which I’ve never forgotten.
I left George’s office that day without even discussing my book proposal. When I told my literary agent this story, he was convinced that I’d blown my one opportunity with a major publishing house by not making a strong pitch for my book. The following day, George called my agent, telling him, “I really don’t even know what Dyer’s book proposal entails, but I want that man as one of our authors.”
At the time, I didn’t realize what was happening. Now, with a quarter century of living in this world of spiritual inquiry, I see it quite clearly. The right people show up precisely when you need them and when you’re able to match up. You must be that which you desire. When you are what you desire, you attract it by radiating it outward. You have this ability to match up with the power of intention and fulfill your intention to attract ideal people and divine relationships.

The Greatest.....

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
-Atisha

Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes.

He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. ~Gurdjieff

Bull Shit (Belief System)

A turkey was chatting with a bull.
'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy. 'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually ...gave him enough stren...gth to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second
branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at
the top of the tree.He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.
Moral of the story: Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

 

Deva Premal and Miten - Gayatri Mantra

The Seven Day Mental Diet How to change your life (and the world) in a week.

The Seven Day Mental Diet How to change your life (and the world) in a week.

The Seven Day Mental Diet
by Emmet Fox

The subject of diet is one of the foremost topics of the present day in public interest. Newspapers and magazines teem with articles on the subject. The counters of the bookshops are filled with volumes unfolding the mysteries of proteins, starches, vitamins, and so forth. just now the whole world is food-conscious. Experts on the subject are saying that physically you become the thing that you eat that your whole body is really composed of the food that you have eaten in the past. What you eat today, they say, will be in your bloodstream after the lapse of so many hours, and it is your blood-stream that builds all the tissues composing your body -and there you are.

Of course, no sensible person has any quarrel with all this. It is perfectly true, as far as it goes, and the only surprising thing is that it has taken the world so long to find it out; but in this pamphlet I am going to deal with the subject of dieting at a level that is infinitely more profound and far reaching in its effects. I refer of course to mental dieting.

The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. It is the thoughts you allow yourself to think, the subjects that you allow your mind to dwell upon, which make you and your surroundings what they are. As they days, so shall they strength be. Everything in your life today the state of your body, whether healthy or sick, the state of your fortune, whether prosperous or impoverished, the state of your home, whether happy or the reverse, the present condition of every phase of your life in fact-is entirely conditioned by the thoughts and feelings which you have entertained in the past, by the habitual tone of your past thinking. And the condition of your life tomorrow, and next week, and next year, will be entirely conditioned by the thoughts and feelings which you choose to entertain from now onwards.

In other words, you choose your life, that is to say, you choose all the conditions of your life, when you choose the thoughts upon which you allow your mind to dwell. Thought is the real causative force in life, and there is no other. You cannot have one kind of mind and another kind of environment. This means that you cannot change your environment while leaving your mind unchanged, nor-and this is the supreme key to life and the reason for this pamphlet -can you change your mind without your environment changing too.

This then is the real key to life: if you change your mind your conditions must change too- your body must change, your daily work or other activities must change; your home must change; the color-tone of your whole life must change-for whether you be habitually happy and cheerful, or low-spirited and fearful, depends entirely on the quality of the mental food upon which you diet yourself.

Please be very clear about this. If you change your mind your conditions must change too. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds. So now you will see that your mental diet is really the most important thing in your whole life.

This may be called the Great Cosmic Law, and its truth is seen to be perfectly obvious when once it is clearly stated in this way. In fact, I do not know of any thoughtful person who denies its essential truth. The practical difficulty in applying it, however, arises from the fact that our thoughts are so close to us that it is difficult, without a little practice, to stand back as it were and look at them objectively.

Yet that is just what you must learn to do. You must train yourself to choose the subject of your thinking at any given time, and also to choose the emotional tone, or what we call the mood that colors it. Yes, you can choose your moods. Indeed, if you could not you would have no real control over your life at all. Moods habitually entertained produce the characteristic disposition of the person concerned, and it is his disposition that finally makes or mars a person's happiness.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. If you are sulky, or surly, or cynical, or depressed, or superior, or frightened half out of your wits, your life cannot possibly be worth living. Unless you are determined to cultivate a good disposition, you may as well give up all hope of getting anything worth while out of life, and it is kinder to tell you very plainly that this is the case.

If you are not determined to start in now and carefully select all day the kind of thoughts that you are going to think, you may as well give up all hope of shaping your life into the kind of thing that you want it to be, because this is the only way.

In short, if you want to make your life happy and worth while, which is what God wishes you to make it, you must begin immediately to train yourself in the habit of thought selection and thought control. This will be exceedingly difficult for the first few days, but if you persevere you will find that it will become rapidly easier, and it is actually the most interesting experiment that you could possibly make. In fact, this thought control is the most thrillingly interesting hobby that anyone could take up. You will be amazed at the interesting things that you will learn about yourself, and you will get results almost from the beginning.

Now many people knowing this truth, make sporadic efforts from time to time to control their thoughts, but the thought stream being so close) as I have pointed outs and the impacts from outside so constant and varied, they do not make very much progress. That is not the way to work. Your only chance is definitely to form a new habit of thought which will carry you through when you are preoccupied or off your guard as well as when you are consciously attending to the business. This new thought habit must be definitely acquired, and the foundation of it can be laid within a few days, and the way to do it is this: Make up your mind to devote one week solely to the task of building a new habit of thought, and during that week let everything in life be unimportant as compared with that. If you will do so, then that week will be the most significant week in your whole life. It will literally be the turning point for you. If you will do so, it is safe to say that your whole life will change for the better. In fact, nothing can possibly remain the same. This does not simply mean that you will be able to face your present difficulties in a better spirit; it means that the difficulties will go. This is the scientific way to Alter Your Life, and being in accordance with the Great Law it cannot fail. Now do you realize that by working in this way you do not have to change conditions? What happens is that you apply the Law, and then the conditions change spontaneously. You cannot change conditions directly you have often tried to do so and failed but go on the seven day mental diet and conditions must change for you.

This then is your prescription. For seven days you must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought. You must watch yourself for a whole week as a cat watches a mouse, and you must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. This discipline will be so strenuous that you could not maintain it consciously for much more than a week, but I do not ask you to do so. A week will be enough, because by that time the habit of positive thinking will begin to be established. Some extraordinary changes for the better will have come into your life, encouraging you enormously, and then the future will take care of itself. The new way of life will be so attractive and so much easier than the old way that you will find your mentality aligning itself almost automatically.

But the seven days are going to be strenuous. I would not have you enter upon this without counting the cost. Mere physical fasting would be child's play in comparison, even if you have a very good appetite. The most exhausting form of army gymnastics, combined with thirty mile route marches, would be mild in comparison with this undertaking. But it is only for one week in your life, and it will definitely alter everything for the better. For the rest of your life here, for all eternity in fact, things will be utterly different and inconceivably better than if you had not carried through this undertaking.

Do not start it lightly. Think about it for a day or two before you begin. Then start in, and the grace of God go with you. You may start it any day in the week, and at any time in the day, first thing in the morning, or after breakfast, or after lunch, it does not matter, but once you do start you must go right through for the seven days. That is essential. The whole idea is to have seven days of-unbroken mental discipline in order to get the mind definitely bent in a new direction once and for all.

If you make a false start, or even if you go in well for two or three days and then for any reason "fall off" the diet, the thing to do is to drop the scheme altogether for several days, and then to start again afresh. There must be no jumping on and off, as it were. You remember that Rip Van Winkle in the play would take a solemn vow of teetotalism, and then promptly accept a drink from the first neighbor who offered him one, saying calmly: "I won't count this one." Well, on the seven day mental diet this sort of thing simply will not do. you must positively count every lapse, and whether you do or not, nature will. where there is a lapse you must go off the diet altogether and then start again.

Now, in order, if possible, to forestall difficulties, I will consider them in a little detail.

First of all, what do I mean by negative thinking? Well, a negative thought is any thought of failure, disappointment, or trouble; any thought of criticism, or spite, or jealousy, or condemnation of others, or self condemnation; any thought of sickness or accident; or, in short, any kind of limitation or pessimistic thinking. Any thought that is not positive and constructive in character, whether it concerns you yourself or anyone else, is a negative thought. Do not bother too much about the question of classification, however; in practice you will never have any trouble in knowing whether a given thought is positive or negative. Even if your brain tries to deceive you, your heart will whisper the truth.

Second, you must be quite clear that what this scheme calls for is that you shall not entertain, or dwell upon negative things. Note this carefully. It is not the thought that come to you that matter, but only such of them as you choose to entertain and dwell upon. It does not matter what thoughts may come to you provided you do not entertain them. It is the entertaining or dwelling upon them that matters. Of course, many negative thoughts will come to you all day long. Some of them will just drift into your mind of their own accord seemingly, and these come to you out of the race mind. Other negative thoughts will be given to you by other people, either in conversation or by their conduct, or you will hear disagreeable news perhaps by letter or telephone, or you will see crimes and disasters announced in the newspaper headings. These things, however, do not matter as long as you do not entertain them. In fact, it is these very things that provide the discipline that is going to transform you during this epoch making week. The thing to do is, directly the negative thought presents itself - turn it out. Turn away from the newspaper; turn out the thought of the unkind letter, or stupid remark, or what not. When the negative thought floats into your mind, immediately turn it out and think of something else. Best of all, think of God as explained in The Golden Key perfect analogy is furnished by the case of a man who is sitting by an open fire when a red hot cinder flies out and falls on his sleeve. If he knocks that cinder off at once, without a moment's delay to think about it, no harm is done. But if he allows it to rest on him for a single moment, under any pretense, the mischief is done, and it will be a troublesome task to repair that sleeve. So it is with a negative thought.

Now what of those negative thoughts and conditions which it is impossible to avoid at the point where you are today? What of the ordinary troubles that you will have to meet in the office or a home? The answer is, that such things will not affect your diet provided that you do not accept them, by fearing them, by believing them, by being indignant or sad about them, or by giving them any power at all. Any negative condition that duty compels you to handle will not affect your diet. Go to the office, or meet the cares at home, without allowing them to affect you. (None of these things move me) and all will be well. Suppose that you are lunching with a friend who talks negatively-Do not try to shut him up or otherwise snub him. Let him talk, but do not accept what he says, and your diet will not be affected. Suppose that on coming home you are greeted with a lot of negative conversation-do not preach a sermon, but simply do not accept it. It is your mental consent, remember, that constitutes your diet. Suppose you witness an accident or an act of injustice let us say Instead of reacting with pity or indignation, refuse to accept the appearance at its face value; do anything that you can to right matters, give it the right thought and let it go at that. You will still be on the diet.

Of course, it will be very helpful if you can take steps to avoid meeting during this week anyone who seems particularly likely to arouse the devil in you. People who get on your nerves, or rub you up the wrong way, or bore you, are better avoided while you are on the diet; but if it is not possible to avoid them, then you must take a little extra discipline that is all.

Suppose that you have a particularly trying ordeal before you next week Well, if you have enough spiritual understanding you will know how to meet that in the spiritual way; but, for our present purpose, I think I would wait and start the diet as soon as the ordeal is over. As I said before, do not take up the diet lightly, but think it over well first.

In closing, I want to tell you that people often find that the starting of this diet seems to stir up all sorts of difficulties. It seen is as though everything begins to go wrong at once. This may be disconcerting, but it is really a good sign. It means that things are moving; and is not that the very object we have in view? Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over., the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

The above point is vitally important and rather subtle. Do you not see that the very dwelling upon these difficulties is in itself a negative thought which has probably thrown you off the diet? The remedy is not, of course, to deny that your world is rocking in appearance, but to refuse to take the appearance for the reality (Judge not according to appearances but judge righteous judgment).

A closing word of caution-Do not tell anyone else that you are on the diet, or that you intend to go on it. Keep this tremendous project strictly to yourself. Remember that your soul should be the Secret Place of the Most High. When you have come through the seven days successfully, and secured your demonstration, allow a reasonable time to elapse to establish the new mentality, and then tell the story to anyone else who you think is likely to be helped by it.

And, finally, remember that nothing said or done by anyone else can possibly throw you off the diet. Only your own reaction to the other person's conduct can do that.

The Evolution of Story by Courtney A. Walsh

The Evolution of Story by Courtney A. Walsh

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Once upon a few thousand lifetimes ago there were pictures carved in stone. They told epic tales of great kings, queens, martyrs, warriors, conquests, wisewomen, magicians and commoners. Tribes and travelers sat around fires singing and storytelling, passing legacies and prophecies on to each successive generation.

Much was lost in translation. Much was misinterpreted, distorted, misrepresented, exaggerated, edited out. This began a long tradition of cautionary tales, romantic heroes & adventures, bloody war stories, whimsical fables, etc.

Then several hundred lifetimes later, all over the world, lots of holy books were written. They contained moral codes woven into myths and truths, all in a great big tumblejumble. People read these books religiously and based their lives around the tenets within. Wars began over whose story was the best story of creation and of how to honor the creator or creators. Nobody could seem to agree on how the world began. Or who or what began it. Or why we were here. Or where we were headed. Sound familiar?

Then... life moved at warp speed for several hundred lifetimes and industry & technology reached such epic proportions that people reached for their holy books like they reached for old stuffed animals. For comfort. Pages ratty with age. Well loved, often quoted and timeworn. Ideas usually outdated, but familiar. Written in a language of fear, shame, blame, guilt, rage and sorrow. This language became part of the collective DNA like a recessive genetic predisposition to cancer. It was just accepted. It was rarely questioned. It was what was. It was the story of us and we knew it by heart.

Fast forward to now. 2010.

It's time for humanity to write new parables. New voices. A new language. It's time for new books. New songs. New pictures. Tradition and nostalgia served their place to bond us and then, to separate us. Fear kept us from grace. It kept us from one another. It kept us from the divine. It kept us lonely and isolated and frightened. Always frightened.

But now it is truly time for clean slates, fresh starts, blank pages. Ancient wisdom in the modern age is an anachronism if it is not seen through LOVE's lens. If it is still being used to separate us, then it is not truly wisdom at all.

It is simply more of the same old story.

I know, deep within, that our story has a happy ending. This is not head-in-the-sand stubbornness. This is not blind, defiant denial. It is what I know. And if you are honest with yourself---you know it, too.

We just get scared. And we forget. So we reach for the comfort of those old familiar ways and words. There's nothing wrong with that. It's part of our story. But it's not the best part.

That?

Is yet to be written.

You hold the pen and the keyboard and the chalk and the microphone. You hold the key and the power and the words and the music and the silence. You are the storyteller and the storyweaver and the storyliver, storysinger, storypainter and the storygiver.

Tell your story of now. Speak it with love. Weave it with hope. Sing it with light. Paint it with joy. Storyboard the future and watch it emerge better than you can now imagine. Unleash the past from its shackles. The past wants to be free of its own heavy burdens.

Tell the story of you-now. Us-now. We-now. Let 'them' rest.

'Their' story/time/day/way is over.

Ours is just beginning.....

Make it a good one.

~CAW~

Remember Your Source

Rev Dr Michael B Beckwith...

Dear [Spiritual Family],

Today, I invite you to remember your source, as I share with you some words from one of my recent sermons at Agape International Spiritual Center:... See More

"When the proverbial river is rising, when you are at your wit's end, when you don't know what to do, when the solution is not readily at hand, when the answers seem to be at a distance, when confusion seems to be occupying your awareness...

...you are called to remember your source.

God, the Universe, is your source of all happiness, all your joy, all wisdom, and all your prosperity. God is the source of every good and perfect thing, and you are called to tap into the source when you are temporarily hypnotized into thinking that something outside of you holds the answer.

There's not some condition that needs to change for you to be happy, and no one else is holding the key to your happiness. Remember the source of all creation, emanating from the very center of your being.

Through your conscious prayer, spiritual study, meditation and sacred service, you awaken to how the good you hope for, desire, and most want is already IN you. You must only remember your source.

And your source is God.
God consciousness.

Remember your faith that is 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen'. You must go within and practice activating your faith, so that when the river is rising you will not forget the source of all creation.

You are not a victim of circumstance!
You are empowered, inspired, and one with God at your source!”

Peace and Richest Blessings,

Michael Bernard Beckwith
Founder, Agape International Spiritual Center

That's Why He Can Stop Your Elephant -Sri Swami Satchidananda

That's Why He Can Stop Your Elephant -

Once upon a time there lived king who had a nice elephant. The attendant of the elephant used to take it to the river every day for a bath. One day as the attendant was bringing the elephant back to the palace, a little boy came walking up to the elephant. He took its trunk in his hands, saying, "Stop! Look at the way you are walking. The elephant stopped. "Walk gently, carefully," he told the elephant. He let go of the trunk, and the elephant started walking again. The next day as the elephant passed the same spot, the boy came running and stopped the elephant to reprimand it again. This happened several days in a row.

The attendant couldn't believe what was happening. He told the king, who sent his minister to check on the boy. In a few days, the minister came to report to the king. "Sir, I observed the boy. He lives with his grandmother. He's just a playful little boy. He seems ordinary, but he has absolutely no fear. That's why he can stop your elephant.

I can't believe it," said the king. "What do you mean?"

Sir, a mind without fear and worry can do anything."

The king wanted the minister to prove his point. The only way to do so was to make the boy worry about something. The minister approached the boy's grandmother. After hearing from her that the boy was allowed to do anything he wanted, the minister asked, "Has he ever asked for anything and been refused?"

No. I have given him everything that he wanted. He is just a happy-go-lucky boy."

Is he afraid of anything?"

Nothing at all."

The minister had to prove his theory to the king, so he said, "All right. When he comes home today give him the usual food, but add less than the usual amount of salt. If the boy asks about it, tell him that you don't have enough money to buy salt, so you had to be sparing with what you have left."

The grandmother said, "If the king wants me to do that, I shall do it." That evening when the boy came home, she serve his supper right away. After a few bites, the boy said, "Grandma, what is this? It's not tasty today." The grandmother repeated what the minister had told her, and the boy said, "Okay, Grandmother, I will get you some salt." He ran to the shop and asked the shopkeeper to give him a little salt. The shopkeeper explained that he couldn't give him salt without receiving money in exchange. "Where can I get some money?" the boy asked.

You have to go and work for it."

I don't know how to work."

Then you can't get any salt."

The boy was a little depressed. He went home. "Grandma, I don't know what to do. He wants me to go and work and get money so I can get some salt. I don't know how to work."

All right, sweetheart," said the grandmother, "it doesn't matter. Go to sleep. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

The boy went to bed, but he couldn't sleep all night. In the morning, the elephant came as usual, and as usual, the boy went to stop the elephant, but he couldn't do it. The elephant pushed him aside and walked off. All the young fellow had in mind was, "I couldn't get a little salt for my food." That one small worry had taken away all his strength.

Om Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Interview with Barack Obama

Will's Wisdom

Rise Up - Parachute Club

PARACHUTE CLUB RISE UP LYRICS

Send "Rise Up" Ringtone to your Cell

(Rise up rise up)
Oh rise and show your power
(Rise up rise up)
Were dancing into the sun
(Rise up rise up)
It s time for celebration
(Rise up rise up)
Spirits time has come

We want lovin we want laughter again
We want heartbeat
We want madness to end
We want dancin
We wanna run in the streets
We want freedom to live in this peace
We want power
We want to make it ok
Want to be singin at the end of the day
Children to breathe a new life
We want freedom to love who we please

*Chorus
(Rise up rise up)
Oh rise and show your power
(Rise up rise up)
Everybody dance into the sun
(Rise up rise up)
It s time for celebration
(Rise up rise up)
The spirits time has come

Talkin bout the right time to be workin for peace
Wantin all the tension in the world to ease
This tightrope s gotta learn how to bend
We re makin new plans
Gonna start it again

(Repeat chorus)
Rise up now

It s time, it s time, it s time

(Rise up rise up)
Oh rise and show your power
(Rise up rise up)
But dance into the sun
(Rise up rise up)
It s time for a celebration
(Rise up rise up)
Everbody s time has come
Spirits time has come
Spirits time has come

(Rise up rise up)
Oh rise and show your power
(Rise up rise up)
All dance into the sun
(Rise up rise up)
It s time for a celebration
(Rise up rise up)
Everbody s time has come
Spirits time has come
Spirits time has come
(Rise up rise up)
Oh rise and show your power...

Bruce Lee : Like Water

The Buddah says...

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions be...cause they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
~Buddha

Change & Change (Faye Hanson)

“Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though its different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything it still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and always will be inevitable, but everything is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you just might find yourself on the other side of the coin. Things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.” -Author unknown

"Five Major Pieces To the Life Puzzle"

Mr Jim Rohn's "Five Major Pieces To the Life Puzzle"

*Philosophy - how you think
*Attitude - how you feel
*Action - what you do
*Results - measure often to see if you are making progress
*Lifestyle - the kind of life you can make for yourself out of the first four pieces

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The Best Day Of My Life

The Best Day of My Life

Today, when I awoke, I suddenly realized
that this is the best day of my life, ever!
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There were times when I wondered if I would
make it to today; but I did!
And because I did I'm going to celebrate!

Today, I'm going to celebrate what an
unbelievable life I have had so far:
the accomplishments, the many blessings,
and, yes, even the hardships
because they have served to make me stronger.

I will go through this day
with my head held high, and a happy heart.
I will marvel at God's seemingly
simple gifts: the morning dew, the sun,
the clouds, the trees, the flowers,
the birds. Today, none of these miraculous
creations will escape my notice.

Today, I will share my excitement for life
with other people. I'll make
someone smile. I'll go out of my way to
perform an unexpected act of
kindness for someone I don't even know.

Today, I'll give a sincere
compliment to someone who seems down.
I'll tell a child how special he is,
and I'll tell someone I love just how deeply
I care for them and how much
they means to me.

Today is the day I quit worrying about
what I don't have and start being
grateful for all the wonderful things
God has already given me. I'll
remember that to worry is just a
waste of time because my faith in God and
his Divine Plan ensures everything will be just fine.

And tonight, before I
go to bed, I'll go outside and raise my
eyes to the heavens. I will stand
in awe at the beauty of the stars and the moon,
and I will praise God for
these magnificent treasures.

As the day ends and I lay my head down
on my pillow, I will thank the
Almighty for the best day of my life.
And I will sleep the sleep of a
contented child, excited with expectation
because I know tomorrow is going
to be the best day of my life, ever!

By Gregory M. Lousig-Nont, Ph.D.

The Paradox Of Our Time

The Paradox Of Our Time

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space; we've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We write more, but learn less; we plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals; we have more food, but less appeasement; we build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology has brought this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to make a difference, or to just hit "Skip Ahead"...

Where is your attention??? Scarcity or Abundance

Continuing to tell stories of shortage only continues to contradict your desire for abundance, and you cannot have it both ways: You cannot focus upon

unwanted and receive

wanted. You cannot focus upon stories about money that make you feel uncomfortable and allow into your experience what makes you feel comfortable. A different story will bring different results:

My thoughts are the basis for the attraction of all things that I consider to be good, which includes enough money, and health, for my comfort and joy.--- Abraham

The Genius of RICHARD BACH