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Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

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The Wheel of Transformation: Karlfried Graf Durckheim's method of spiritual awakening - Nottingham, Theodore J.

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Durckheim's method begins and ends with the individual on his or her
unique path. He offers no theory, no cosmology, no religious
philosophy.
Stage 1-- all that is contrary to essential being must be relinquished.

step 1: the practice of critical watchfulness

step 2: the letting go of all that stands in the way of new becoming

Stage 2-- that which has been relinquished must be dissolved in transcendent Being which absorbs and recreates us.

step 3: union with transcendent Being

step 4: new becoming in accordance with the inner image which has arisen from transcendent Being

Stage 3-- the newly formed core must be recognized and personal responsibility taken for its growth.

step 5: practising this new form on a daily basis through critical watchfulness which leads us back to step one of the process
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- For Durckheim, higher consciousness --which he names transcendent or
  divine Being-- seeks to manifest itself through our bodily presence.
  This life-force actively seeks to become conscious of itself through
  our awakening to our essential nature.
- This work on oneself is not centered on self for the sake of self.
  Durckheim has a much wider panorama in view. Our efforts are meant to
  prepare us to reach a state where life in the service of transcendent
  Being becomes second nature. In discovering our own essential self, we
  participate in the manifestation of what can only be described as
  divine, the source of mercy, compassion, and conscious love.
- But Durckheim is
  especially insistent on the body as a key to breaking through to a
  greater consciousness. "Whenever a wrong posture has become deeply
  ingrained it blocks the redeeming, renewing and preserving forces that
  arise from the depths of Being." (2)
- Durckheim tells us that "the
  purpose of correct practice is not to bring man to a state of
  tranquility but to keep him in a condition of constant watchfulness and
  prevent him from coming to a standstill on the Way."
- To be released from our
  misconceptions and buffers is not merely a mental effort but requires
  dissolving the physical knots and distorted postures which express
  these attitudes. Clenched jaws, cramped stomachs, raised shoulders all
  keep us outside of the realm of essence which is the only threshold to
  our true becoming.

29 Oct 08

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine

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So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised,

Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

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I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
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- Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
- Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
- for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive,

31 Aug 08

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Symptoms of Inner Peace

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19 Jun 08

Neuro-linguistic programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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You need only three things to be an absolutely exquisite communicator. We have found that there are three major patterns in the behavior of every therapeutic wizard we've talked to — and executives, and salespeople. The first one is to know what outcome you want. The second is that you need flexibility in your behavior. You need to be able to generate lots and lots of different behaviors to find out what responses you get. The third is you need to have enough sensory experience to notice when you get the responses that you want [...] (Bandler and Grinder, 1979)
Choice is better than no choice. An idea from cybernetics that holds the most flexible element in a system will have the most influence or choice in that system

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The Human Potential Movement (HPM) arose out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and formed around the concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in most people. The movement took as its premise the belief that through the development of "human potential", humans can experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity, and fulfillment. As a corollary, those who begin to unleash this assumed potential often find themselves directing their actions within society towards assisting others to release their potential. Adherents believe that the net effect of individuals cultivating their potential will bring about positive social change at large.

07 Jan 08

5 Powerful Reasons to Make Reflection a Daily Habit, and How to Do It | Zen Habits

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27 Dec 07

Manifesting Intentions Without Resistance

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Manifesting Intentions

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13 Dec 07

Making Money Consciously

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How important is money? How much is enough? Is money a distraction from one’s spiritual path? Is it a necessary evil? Is it unfair that some people have more money than others? Is poverty more noble than wealth? Is it possible to become an enlightened millionaire?
Is money a positive resource or a consciousness-lowering distraction?
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- Given the way our society currently functions, if you have a lot of money, you have a lot of solutions.
- I think Earl Nightingale said it best:
  
  Nothing can take the place of money in the area in which money works.
- Conflicting beliefs about money
  
  For most of my life, I’ve been stuck with incongruent attitudes towards money.
- On the other hand, we might watch a classic holiday movie like It’s a Wonderful Life that tells us we need to keep money in perspective and that relationships are far more important.
- According to United Nations World Magazine, the Church has several billion dollars in gold alone, and when you consider their massive worldwide real estate holdings, their artwork collection, and their tax exempt status, the amount of wealth controlled by the Catholic Church is staggering.
- What is money?
  
  Money is a social resource – the primary social resource. Money has no inherent value of its own, but we assign it value through social agreement.
- if you still want to take advantage of social resources, you’ll need to create your own social contracts on a case-by-case basis. This could include barter or other forms of exchange, or it could involve leveraging relationships to meet your social needs.
- While the monetary system is far from perfect, it’s more efficient than the alternatives. By assigning a monetary value to our social exchanges and by making it easy to transfer money from one person to another, social trades are performed with relative ease. Buying groceries, going to work, using electricity, or connecting to the Internet are all examples of social trades, and by social consensus, all of these are reducible to money.
- So money is essentially social credit. It’s an IOU from society, enabling you to extract a certain amount of social value whenever you want. The more money you have, the more society owes you, and the more value you can extract.
- How to earn money
  
  Let’s consider what it means to earn money. Since money is a social resource, earning money means acquiring more of that social resource. When you spend money, you convert money to value. But when you earn money, you convert value to money.
- The greater your ability to personally deliver a high social value, the greater your earnings potential. The difference between making $10/hour vs. $100/hour is that the latter work has much greater social value. This difference isn’t anyone’s “fault” — the difference is due to the social consensus about the value of certain work. Note the difference between absolute value and social value.
- If you think about it, there are two basic ways to earn money:
  
  Make a social contribution, and receive payment commensurate with the social value of your contribution.
  Take advantage of market inefficiencies to extract money without contributing any value.
- If you find yourself stuck at a certain level of income and unable to go any higher, an underlying moocher mindset is probably the culprit. This is the mindset that leads you to ask, “How can I get more money?” instead of, “How can I contribute more value?” It’s also the mindset that says it’s a bad idea to earn more money, since your gain is someone else’s pain.
- The contributor mindset
  
  Now let’s consider the contributor mindset. This mindset recognizes that the best way to make money is to provide fair value in exchange. Create genuine social value, and receive payment commensurate with that value.
- If you want to earn income as a contributor, you must contribute social value, not personal value.
- Here’s the key point: your income depends on the social value of your work, not the personal value.
- The saying “Find a need and fill it” certainly rings true, assuming we’re referring to a social need or desire.
- Another name for the contributor mindset is the abundance mindset. This mindset says that wealth can be created from ideas and action. Your gain is a reflection of the social gain you’ve contributed. If you want to earn a high income, you must contribute a lot of social value. The more social value you create, the more money you can earn. This is a win-win mindset because you’re putting value into the system for the benefit of others.
- The only real limit on your income is how much social value you can create. If you want to earn more money, then develop your skills and talents to facilitate the creation of lots of social value. The best way to increase your income is to figure out how to deliver more social value. Focus on giving, and the getting will largely take care of itself. The systems to reward social service are already in place, so all you need to do is plug your service into the existing marketplace.
- Let your inspiration come from the desire to provide even more social value.
- Money makes you more of who you already are, so if you’re already a contributor, more money can allow you to expand your contribution.
- Making money consciously
  
  Contributing social value is the primary strategy for making money consciously, but by itself it’s still not enough. The problem with social value is that your personal values won’t perfectly align with the social consensus.
- When you attempt to provide social value without achieving congruence with your personal values, your motivation will be very weak.
- Alternatively, when you attempt to satisfy your personal values without providing any real social value, you get the starving artist syndrome. You may be inspired by work that totally fulfills you, but it won’t pay the bills.
- The solution is to find an area of overlap between your personal values and social values, and work within that area of overlap. This will allow you to do what you love and create something that others value as well. Don’t force yourself to choose between your integrity and your income — choose both!
- Congruent contribution
  
  Two simple realizations can help you achieve a congruent mindset about money and push beyond limiting financial beliefs. First, you must consciously adopt the contributor mindset and abandon the moocher mindset. And secondly, you must find a way to contribute social value while achieving alignment with your personal values. Once you’ve internalized those two mindsets, you’ll be in a position to generate abundant income while serving the greater good.
- If you want to generate income without lowering your consciousness, you have to get your limiting beliefs out of your way. Holding yourself back from earning more money doesn’t serve anyone. Limiting your income only limits your contribution. The conscious reason to earn more money is that you can put those social credits to good use. Use them to expand your service to others. If you’re living an honorable life, then it’s a good thing for you to receive more money. You’ll be a good custodian for it. The more money that flows through your life, the more resources you can invest into your life purpose.

27 Nov 07

How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes

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How do you discover your real purpose in life?
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How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.
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- If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).
- At some point during the process (typically after about 50-100 answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it converging. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That’s normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.
- At some point during the process (typically after about 50-100 answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it converging. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That’s normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.
- When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you’re here, you will feel it resonate with you deeply. The words will seem to have a special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.

24 Nov 07

2 Mental Blocks to Making Money

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The essence of successful income generation is value creation. If you want to earn income, you must provide something that matters enough to someone else that they’ll pay you for it.
Mistake #1: Meditating as an attempt to generate income.
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- It’s great to be working through your inner blocks. I don’t want to suggest that kind of work isn’t important. But inner work by itself is NOT an income-generating activity. How are those actions providing value to others such that they’ll gladly pay you in exchange?
- Stop cleansing, balancing, and saging your aura, and start directing your energy into the physical reality all around you.
- A clean aura is certainly helpful, but unfortunately it won’t pay your bills.
- Mistake #2: Focusing on getting money instead of providing value
- You’re too wrapped up in your own little world of me, me, me. Where’s the value?
- Too often that shell remains hollow, containing nothing but recycled and rehashed ideas that can readily be found elsewhere. There’s no innovation or risk-taking.
- By focusing on trying to get money, you’re missing the point. The point is to provide value to others. This means serving people in a way they aren’t already being served, in a manner that aligns with your unique creative self-expression. Share what only you can share. Express what only you can express in the way that only you can express it.
- Try to look past your own needs and recognize there’s a pretty interesting world around you. Through your actions you can have an impact on it, for better or worse. Think about how you can provide something that people want or need in a way they aren’t already being served, something that will make a positive difference. Then act on it.

23 Aug 07

Self-Discipline: Acceptance

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The first of the five pillars of self-discipline is acceptance. Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.

This may sound simple and obvious, but in practice it’s extremely difficult. If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
I AM telling you this to impress you, not with me but with yourself. I want you to be impressed by what you can accomplish over the next 5-10 years if you progressively build your self-discipline. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it. The first step is to openly accept where you are right now, whether you feel good about it or not. Surrender yourself to what you have to work with — maybe it isn’t fair, but it is what it is. And you won’t get any stronger until you accept where you are right now.

Self-Discipline: Hard Work

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.

- Oprah Winfrey
My definition of hard work is that which challenges you.

And why is challenge important? Why not just do what’s easiest?

Most people will do what’s easiest and avoid hard work — and that’s precisely why you should do the opposite. The superficial opportunities of life will be attacked by hordes of people seeking what’s easy. The much tougher challenges will usually see a lot less competition and a lot more opportunity.
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- When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.
- Hard work goes hand-in-hand with acceptance. One of the things you must accept are those areas of your life that won’t succumb to anything less than hard work.
- Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it. Make it your ally instead of your enemy. It’s a potent tool to have on your side.

Self-Discipline: Persistence

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So how do you know when to press on vs. when to give up?

Is your plan still correct? If not, update the plan. Is your goal still correct? If not, update or abandon your goal. There’s no honor in clinging to a goal that no longer inspires you. Persistence is not stubbornness.
The value of persistence comes not from stubbornly clinging to the past. It comes from a vision of the future that’s so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real.
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- Can you identify a part of your life where you’ve demonstrated a pattern of long-term persistence? I think if you can identify such an area, it may provide a clue to your mission — something you can work towards where passion and self-discipline function synergistically.

12 Aug 07

Self-Discipline

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The five pillars of self-discipline are: Acceptance, Willpower, Hard Work, Industry, and Persistence. If you take the first letter of each word, you get the acronym “A WHIP”
the basic method to build self-discipline is to tackle challenges that you can successfully accomplish but which are near your limit.

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