Hellen Keller Quote

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it." - Helen Keller

Dreams and Nightmares-Jonas Salk

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams" - Jonas Salk

Love Comes To.........

"Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before." - Anonymous

Success,Courage and Determinaton!

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be" - George Sheehan

All The Great Things.....

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Winston Churchill

Every Adversity Has the Seed

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. - W. Clement Stone

Lay a Firm Foundation

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. - David Brink

Robert Collier Quote

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. - Robert Collier

Failure is Success

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes

Goals and Purpose

"There is more to success than reaching goals. People have accumulated vast fortunes only to live their final years unfulfilled and spiritually poor. Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living — an authentic joy that pulls us toward the next episode of our life's purpose." - Steve Brunkhorst

Creative and Rich – The Artist's Attitude Towards Wealth

Creative and Rich – The Artist's Attitude Towards Wealth
By Tania French

Are you creative but lacking in wealth? Your inborn talent can only blossom into its greatest potential when you are rich enough to finance all your needs. Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless you are rich.

Every sane person wants to be fulfilled and prosperous.

I can attest to that. My life as a classical composer was not bringing in much money. My music was being performed around the world, and I had commissions, but most of the fees only covered a life of poverty. So I chose to make a change.

However, in order to make that change, I took a hard look at my views on money. Sure enough, I was conditioned to expect little in monetary rewards for my creative work. Whether you are a writer, painter, dancer, musician, or composer, society expects you to be a “poor artist”.

Well, I have learned that what I expect does happen!

Your thoughts about your life become your future. Let me repeat that. Your thoughts about your life become your future!

In order to undo and cast off these deeply conditioned thoughts, I stopped them in their tracks when they reared their ugly heads. Instead I learned how focus like a laser-beam on the life I wanted. With joyous concentration I could smell, see, feel, hear and taste the life I wanted.

Soon enough, things began to shift. The first shift confirmed an idea, a yearning, I had had for a long time.

Now, I am writing classical/new age/world music for a much broader audience. My heart and mind are supremely focused on creating an uplifting listening experience for all ages. As a result, my life has changed – I am creating the life of my dreams.

You are the creator of your life. You can choose between a life of worry and sadness or a life of joy and abundance. Only you can make that change.

Worrying about how to pay this month’s bills takes precious energy away from your creative life. Joy is never present in a stressful environment. When your energy is drained by worry and stress, your creative life suffers.

Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. You naturally want to become all that you are capable of becoming. This desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature. We cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

Show the world your gifts and, in return, you will draw riches to yourself. Your creative energy is money just waiting to flow back to you. Apply yourself, and you will be fulfilled and prosperous. The very best thing you can do for the world is to make the most of yourself!

For your common-sense guide to living a fulfilled and wealthy life, http://www.prosperousartist.com/ click here. Tania French is a composer who has enjoyed performances and radio broadcasts of her music worldwide. Articles about her music have been published in major European and American newspapers and magazines. Her latest CD “Renewal” (released in December, 2005) will feature a rejuvenating fusion of new age, classical, and world songs. © 2005 Tania French. All Rights Reserved.

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The Path-William Shakespeare

"The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger." - William Shakespeare

Life

"Life is a long lesson in humility." - Sir James Matthew Barrie

Opportunities

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

Jim Rohn-Build

"Whatever good things we build end up building us." - Jim Rohn

The Power of Decision

"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins

Theodore Roosevelt Quote

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." - Theodore Roosevelt

Your Biggest Adventure!

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

Believe!

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." - Charles F. Kettering

Patrick Overton Quote

"When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly" - Patrick Overton

Howard Thurman Quote

"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls." - Howard Thurman

Inducing Conciousness in Others

Inducing Conciousness in Others
By Steve Taubman

Over the last few years, I’ve clocked some serious hours on my meditation cushion. Sometimes, serenity evades me despite my best efforts. But at other times, I get a glimpse of liberation. I’ve come to understand that that state is present and available whenever I’m able to interrupt the constant stream of thought that imprisons me in my self image. Interestingly, although I didn’t choose these professions with that in mind, I’ve spent the last several years working as a hypnotist and magician; careers which are designed to do just that; to interrupt the stream of thought and bring about a transient experience of liberation. As I think about it, I believe that the pursuit of enlightenment is often accompanied by the desire to guide others there as well.

We all have the capacity to deliver at least one of the experiences that induce enlightenment. Perhaps you can tell a joke or a funny story and make someone laugh. Or maybe you can create a soothing physical environment in which people can relax into their essence. You might fill your house with beautiful music, pleasing visual stimuli, and live plants to induce a shift into harmonization with nature.

Even if you possess none of the skills I’ve described, however, you still have one thing which can stimulate liberation in others, and that is presence. Merely attending to another person creates an environment for spontaneous growth and healing.
Suppose you were to make a commitment to giving your undivided attention to everyone you encounter, to empty your mind of all thoughts and be so completely present that the other person had nothing with which he or she had to compete.

Have you noticed that it’s very easy to tell when someone is really listening to you? Attending to you? Have you noticed how quickly you become aware when someone with whom you’re speaking becomes distracted or preoccupied? Have you also noticed that it’s very difficult to talk to someone who’s not listening? I don’t mean that it’s difficult to get them to hear you. I mean it’s actually difficult to construct your own thoughts.

Communication is an organic process. It requires a giver and a receiver. Absent of a receiver, the giver is incapable of doing his or her job. The system backs up, not just to the mouth of the giver, but all the way back to the brain. The mechanism for thought-creation freezes and the giver loses the ability to think clearly. Once that ability is suspended, the giver becomes edgy, confused, and blocked. You’ve no doubt experienced this state and have wondered why you felt that way. I call this the inability to show up. We must be witnessed if we are to show up. We talk into someone’s listening. Our essential message, the clarity of our expression, and the recognition of our own truth require a receiver or they can’t become manifest. The enfolded remains enfolded. We cease to be creative. We become depressed, isolated, and insecure.

That is what we do to others when we fail them as listeners. We wound their souls and cast them into suffering. Don’t think for a moment that you can get away with providing inadequate attention, that it goes unnoticed or that its effects are unfelt. If you know it when you’re not being received, you can be sure that others know when you’re giving less than your full attention.

Conversely, when we resolve to give others our undivided attention, they can show up. They can touch their own essence. They can discover their own inner resources. They can become who they’re truly meant to be. And as they unfold, we get the benefit of seeing who they really are. We get to discover bridges between us and them that we never knew existed. Not only do we end their isolation, we end our own as well. Life is more fun when we take the time to make real connections.

The act of connecting is a deliberate one. We must decide to become and remain present. We can’t wait for the circumstance or our mind to make that decision for us. If we do, we’ll be distracted by the constant stream of thoughts in our head which are completely unrelated to the interaction at hand, as well as by the mental chatter evoked by the interaction. Judgments, evaluations, questions, and uncomfortable emotions are all likely to surface as we stand face to face with another, and, within a very short period of time, left unchecked, our mind will create a movie screen of images between us and the other person. It’s only our commitment to presence that prevents us from withdrawing our focus of attention. We must do our very best to direct attention back to the present moment and to the person or group with whom we’re interacting. In doing so, we’re giving a gift that won’t go unnoticed.

As we become clearer channels of presence, we provide an environment in which those around us can touch something profound within themselves. As they do, they can become liberated from their own mental limitations and from the suffering those limitations create. It’s remarkably gratifying to know that just being present can, and often does, bring about incredible growth!

Dr. Steve Taubman is a hypnotist and physician, and the author of UnHypnosis: How to Wake Up, Start Over, and Create the Life You’re Meant to Live. His writings and teachings are meant to guide people in the use of tools of transformation, and to bring esoteric spiritual principles down to earth so people can use them to improve their lives. You can learn more about UnHypnosis by visiting http://www.unhypnosis.com