Henry Tian's List: Personal Dev

• “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

   

  Stephen Hawking

   

  Hawking couldn’t have been more right about this. Introverts have very loud and chaotic minds. They are always immersed in their own world. Inner thoughts and monologues always engulf their minds. They think too much and speak too little.

  • That's why i need to brainstorm because i am introvert- a lot in my mind
• introverts are often perfectionists and self-critical. Despite doing their best, they are never satisfied with themselves. This causes such an extreme mental and physical exhaustion that they tend to underestimate themselves and their achievements. Being aware of their imperfections, they are constantly trying to achieve perfection, and repeated failures disappoint them
• Daydreaming is another factor which contributes to the development of depression amongst introverts. They are natural dreamers and have extremely crazy imaginations. They set high goals in life but aren’t always able to reach them, as half the time they are engrossed in deep thoughts and their inner world. Apart from this, introverts are also hypersensitive and keen observers. They take criticisms too personally and engage in frequent introspections. Their lofty expectations in life are seldom met, and this leads to utter disillusionment, which also triggers depression symptoms.
• “while introverts have no special advantage in intelligence, they do seem to process more information than others in any given situation.”

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• 1. Anger is a motivating force

• 2. Angry people are more optimistic

   

  It may sound like an odd thing to say, but angry people have something in common with happy people. That’s because both tend to be more optimistic

• 3. Anger can benefit relationships

   

  Anger is a natural reaction to being wronged by someone else and it’s a way of communicating that sense of injustice
• Oddly enough research has shown that hiding anger in intimate relationships can be detrimental
• The expression of anger, if justifiable and aimed at finding a solution rather than just venting, can actually benefit and strengthen relationships
• 4. Anger provides self-insight
• If we can notice when we get angry and why, then we can learn what to do to improve our lives. Anger can motivate self-change

• 5. Anger reduces violence

   

  Although anger often precedes physical violence, it can also be a way of reducing violence. That’s because it’s a very strong social signal that a situation needs to be resolved
• If you’re still not convinced that anger might reduce violence, imagine a world without anger where people had no method for showing how they felt about injustice
• 6. Anger as negotiation strategy
• Anger can be a legitimate way to get what you want. In one study of negotiation participants made larger concessions and fewer demands of an angry person than one who was happy
• Anger is likely to work best when it’s justified, if you appear powerful and when the other side’s options are limited

• The likely features of constructive anger are:

   
   
  • that the person who caused the anger is present,
   
  • that it is justified and proportionate to the wrongdoing,
   
  • and it is expressed as the first step in trying to solve a problem rather than just venting bad feeling.
• Used right, anger can be a handy tool. But use with caution as people find anger the most difficult of all the emotions to control

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• A paranoid person may view someone else's accidental behavior as though it is with intent or threatening
• feeling powerless and depressed, isolating oneself, and relinquishing activities are characteristics that could be associated with those exhibiting more frequent paranoia
• it is unlikely that someone with paranoia will thrive in interpersonal relationships
• those exhibiting paranoia can evolve from parental relationships and dis-trustworthy environments. These environments could include being very disciplinary, stringent, and unstable.
• Experiences likely to enhance or manifest the symptoms of paranoia include increased rates of disappointment, stress, and a hopeless state of mind
• Discrimination has also been reported as a potential predictor of paranoid delusions. Such reports that paranoia seemed to appear more in older patients that had experienced higher levels of discrimination throughout their lives
• immigrants are quite susceptible to forms of psychosis. This could be due to the aforementioned effects of discriminatory events and humiliation
• Motivation behind this characteristic may involve the need for that person to develop a better self-image and maintain self-confidence

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• Paranoia involves intense anxious or fearful feelings and thoughts often related to persecution, threat, or conspiracy
• Symptoms of paranoia and delusional disorders include intense and irrational mistrust or suspicion, which can bring on sense of fear, anger, and betrayal. Some identifiable beliefs and behaviors of individuals with symptoms of paranoia include mistrust, hypervigilence, difficulty with forgiveness, defensive attitude in response to imagined criticism, preoccupation with hidden motives, fear of being deceived or taken advantage of, inability to relax, or are argumentative
• Delusional disorder is characterized by irrational or intense belief(s) or suspicion(s) which a person believes to be true
• The most important element in treating paranoia and delusional disorder, is building a trusting and collaborative relationship to reduce the impact of irrational fearful thoughts and improving social skills. It can be difficult to treat a person with paranoia since symptoms result in increased irritability, emotionally guardedness, and possible hostility

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• Alertness

   

  Being aware of what is taking place around me so I can have the right responses

• Creativity

   

  Approaching a need, a task, or an idea from a new perspective

• Discernment

   

  Understanding the deeper reasons why things happen

• Thriftiness

   

  Allowing myself and others to spend only what is necessary

• Wisdom

   

  Making practical applications of truth in daily decisions

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• 1. The Heart and The Life
• Nothing remains unrevealed. That which is hidden is but for a time; it ripens and comes forth at last.

  • nullLuke 8:17
    For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. -- 2014-01-09
    Prov 20:5
    The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters
    But a man of understanding draws them out.
    12/3/2013 page 86 -- 2014-01-09
    
• Seed, tree, blossom, and fruit are the fourfold order of the universe. From the state of a man’s heart proceed the conditions of his life. His thoughts blossom into deeds; and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.

  • Margaret Thatcher
    Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions.
    Watch your actions, for they become habits.
    Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
    What we think, we become. 
• Man is the keeper of his heart; the watcher of his mind; the solitary guard of his citadel of life. As such, he can be diligent or negligent.
• For he will then discover that he possesses the power to rule his mind, and to fashion it in accordance with his Ideal.

  • I can fashion my mind according to the ideal, whis is : my guiding principle, and God's words.
• it is impossible for a man to fall short of liberation, enlightenment, and peace, who guards with unwearying diligence the gateway of his heart.

  • I like and want these 3 words: liberation, enlightenment, and peace.
    
    Righteousness, peace and joy.
• 2. The Nature and Power of Mind
• Temptation does not arise in the outer object, but in the lust of the mind for that object. Nor do sorrow and suffering belong by nature to the external things and happenings of life, but in an undisciplined attitude of mind toward those things and happenings.
• 3. Formation of Habit
• EVERY ESTABLISHED mental condition is an acquired habit, and it has become such by continuous repetition of thought.
• Anger and impatience are natural and easy to thousands of people, because they are constantly repeating angry and impatient thoughts and acts. And with each repetition the habit is more firmly established and more deeply rooted.
• Calmness and patience can become habitual in the same way—by first grasping through effort, a calm and patient thought, and then continuously thinking it, and living in it, until "use becomes second nature," and anger and impatience pass away forever.
• 4. Doing and Knowing
• the mind is a combination of habits which he can, by patient effort, modify to any extent, and over which he can thus gain complete ascendancy, mastery, and control
• Hourly and daily must the mind be trained to think stainless thoughts
• it is necessary to begin at the lowest and easiest steps, and proceed by natural, progressive stages to the higher and more difficult
• Practice always precedes real knowledge.

  • Candidate for Guiding principles
    
    Do first, understand latter. 
    
    Know comes after Do
    
    Do with Obedience even you don't understand why you have to do it. Real knowledge (understanding) comes after many practices with the attitude of obedience. Know comes after many do
    
    
• The schoolmaster never attempts to teach his pupils the abstract principles of mathematics at the start. He knows that such a method of teaching would be in vain, and learning impossible.
• In learning a trade, say that of a mechanic, a boy is not at first taught the principles of mechanics, but a simple tool is put in his hand and he is told how rightly to use it. He is then left to do it by effort and practice.
• In a properly governed household, the child is first taught to be obedient, and to conduct himself properly under all circumstances. The child is not even told why he must do this, but is commanded to do it. Only after he has far succeeded in doing what is right and proper, is he told why he should do it. No father would attempt to teach his child the principles of ethics before exacting from him the practice of family duty and social virtue.

  • nullnew -- 2014-01-10
    Do first, understand latter. -- 2014-01-10
    
• Virtue can only be known by doing, and the knowledge of Truth can only be arrived at by perfecting oneself in the practice of Virtue. To be complete in the practice and acquisition of Virtue is to be complete in the knowledge of Truth
• Truth can only be arrived at by daily and hourly doing the lessons of Virtue, beginning with the simplest, and passing on to the more difficult
• 5. First Steps in The Higher Life
• the first step in the discipline of the mind is the overcoming of indolence or laziness.
• Indolence consists in giving the body more ease and sleep than it requires, in procrastinating, and in shirking and neglecting those things which should receive immediate attention.
• This condition of laziness must be overcome by rousing up the body at an early hour, giving it just the amount of sleep it requires for complete recuperation, and by doing promptly and vigorously, every task, every duty, no matter how small, as it comes along.
• Nor should one attempt to do his thinking at such a time. Strong, pure, and true thinking is impossible under such circumstances.

  • No wondering I can't fokus my mind when layang in bed.
• A man should go to bed to sleep, not to think. He should get up to think and work, not to sleep.
• Such undisciplined desire can only be overcome by reducing the quantity of food eaten, and the number of meals per day, and by resorting to a simple and uninvolved diet. Regular hours should be set apart for meals, and eating at other times should be rigidly avoided. Suppers should be abolished, as they are altogether unnecessary, and promote heavy sleep and cloudiness of mind.
• When one eats for enjoyment, he is gluttonous. The heart must be purified of sensual craving and gustatory lust.
• when that which is to be done is done vigorously; when no task or duty is delayed; when early rising has become a delight;
• when one is contented with the food which is put before him, no matter how scanty and plain, and the craving for gustatory pleasure is at an end
• then the first two steps in the Higher Life are accomplished.
• The next lesson is the lesson of Virtuous Speech, in which there are five orderly steps.
• He will not say of another that which he dare not say to his face.
• either talk with a purpose or remain silent.
• having no other purpose than to raise an empty laugh
• for the passing excitement of a momentary laugh
• The virtuous will be of earnest and reverent speech
• The man who is ever on the alert to check his own words in order to soften and purify them will find the higher way and the truer life.

  • Exp: when converse with sufi.
    Before speak, I check my worlds tos often And purify

• the higher cannot be known until the lower is fulfilled. 

   Can a man make a table before he has learned how to handle a tool and drive a nail? And can a man fashion his mind in accordance with Truth before he has overcome the slavery of his body?
• As for the labor involved—does not the youth joyfully and patiently submit himself to a seven-years’ apprenticeship in order to master a craft? And does he not, day by day, carefully and faithfully carry out every detail of his master’s instructions, looking forward to the time when, perfected through obedience and practice, he shall be himself a master?
• While a man is overcoming laziness and self-indulgence, he is really cultivating and developing the virtues of abstinence, temperance, punctuality, and self-denial. He is acquiring the strength, energy, and resolve which are indispensable to the successful accomplishment of the higher tasks.
• While he is overcoming the vices of speech, he is developing the virtues of truthfulness, sincerity, reverence, kindliness, and self-control, and is gaining that mental steadiness and fixedness of purpose
• to control and purify the deeper motives of the heart.
• Duty is generally regarded as an irksome labor, a compulsory something which must be toiled through, or be in some way avoided. This way of regarding duty proceeds from a selfish condition of mind, and a wrong understanding of life.
• Duty is only irksome to him who craves some selfish enjoyment or benefit for himself.
• his wearisomeness proceeds, not from the duty itself, but from his selfish desire to escape it.
• There must be no extravagance and exaggeration of speech, but the simple truth should be stated.
• In the heart of the strongly virtuous man, no feeling of personal injury can arise. He has put away all retaliation, and has no enemies. If other men should regard themselves as his enemies, he will regard them kindly, understanding their ignorance, and making full allowance for it.
• unhappiness cannot be escaped while sin remains unconquered.
• Evil is not a power; it is ignorance and misuse of good.

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• Rise early and meditate. Begin each day with a conquered body, and a mind fortified against error and weakness. Temptation will never be overcome by unprepared fighting. The mind must be armed and arrayed in the silent hour. It must be trained to perceive, to know, to understand. Sin and temptation disappear when right understanding is developed.

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• Achiever®People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.

  • sufi
• Context®People strong in the Context theme enjoy thinking about the past. They understand the present by researching its history.
• Discipline^TMPeople strong in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is best described by the order they create.

  • sufi
• Harmony®People strong in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don't enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement.

  • sufi
• Ideation®People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
• Input®People strong in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.
• Intellection®People strong in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectual activity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.
• Learner®People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.

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• 1. The lesson of evil
• As evil is the direct outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are fully learned, ignorance passes away, and wisdom takes its place

• A man may shut himself up in a dark room, and deny that the light exists, but it is everywhere without, and darkness exists only in his own little room. 

• 2. The world a reflex of mental states

    
• Whatsoever you harbor in the inmost chambers of your heart will, sooner or later by the inevitable law of reaction, shape itself in your outward life.

  • true. So guard your heart for out of it flow the spring of life.
• Every soul attracts its own, and nothing can possibly come to it that does not belong to it
• Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without. And now I seem to hear a chorus of voices exclaim, “But do you really mean to say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds?” I do not say that, but I say this, and know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can only affect you in so far as you allow them to do so.
• You believe (and upon this little word belief hang all our sorrows and joys) that outward things have the power to make or mar your life; by so doing you submit to those outward things, confess that you are their slave, and they your unconditional master; by so doing, you invest them with a power which they do not, of themselves, possess, and you succumb
• If circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they would bless and harm all men alike, but the fact that the same circumstances will be alike good and bad to different souls proves that the good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it

• The wild flower which the casual wayfarer thoughtlessly tramples upon is, to the spiritual eye of the poet, an angelic messenger from the invisible. 

   To the many, the ocean is but a dreary expanse of water on which ships sail and are sometimes wrecked; to the soul of the musician it is a living thing, and he hears, in all its changing moods, divine harmonies.
• they attract to themselves that which they send forth, and so come in contact with people similar to themselves

• The old adage, “Birds of a feather flock together,” has a deeper significance than is generally attached to it, for in the thought-world as in the world of matter, each clings to its kind. 

   

   

   Do you wish for kindness? Be kind.
   Do you ask for truth? Be true.
   What you give of yourself you find;
   Your world is a reflex of you.
• the kingdom of God is within you.

  • My New understand ing. It is in your thought that you project to the world
• 3. The way out of undesirable conditions
• Hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, lust, covetousness, all these are fires which bum, and whoever even so much as touches them must suffer the torments of burning.
• Whereas love, gentleness, good-will, purity, are cooling airs which breathe peace upon the soul
• To be patient under all circumstances, and to accept all conditions as necessary factors in your training, is to rise superior to all painful conditions
• You say you are chained by circumstances; you cry out for better opportunities, for a wider scope, for improved physical conditions, and perhaps you inwardly curse the fate that binds you hand and foot.
• You may bring about that improved condition in your outward life which you desire, if you will unswervingly resolve to improve your inner life

• Perhaps you complain, you bewail your lot; you blame your birth, your parents, your employer, or the unjust Powers who have bestowed upon you so undeservedly poverty and hardship, and upon another affluence and ease. 
• Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy

• There is no room for a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is soul-suicide. By your very attitude of mind you are strengthening the chains which bind you, and are drawing about you the darkness by which you are enveloped, Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter. 

• Build yourself up in the faith and knowledge, and make yourself worthy of better surroundings and wider opportunities. Be sure, first of all, that you are making the best of what you have. 

   Do not delude yourself into supposing that you can step into greater advantages whilst overlooking smaller ones, for if you could, the advantage would be impermanent and you would quickly fall back again in order to learn the lesson which you had neglected. 
• As the child at school must master one standard before passing onto the next, so, before you can have that greater good which you so desire, must you faithfully employ that which you already possess.
• The parable of the talents is a beautiful story illustrative of this truth, for does it not plainly show that if we misuse, neglect, or degrade that which we possess, be it ever so mean and insignificant, even that little will be taken from us, for, by our conduct we show that we are unworthy of it.

• Perhaps you desire more time for thought and effort, and feel that your hours of labor are too hard and long. Then see to it that you are utilizing to the fullest possible extent what little spare time you have. 

   It is useless to desire more time, if you are already wasting what little you have; for you would only grow more indolent and indifferent
• It may be that you are in the employ of a tyrannous master or mistress, and you feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon this also as necessary to your training. Return your employer’s unkindness with gentleness and forgiveness

  • New understanding. 
    Exp: securing, Dynamex, siddharta2
• Do not complain that you are oppressed by the rich. Are you sure that if you gained riches you would not be an oppressor yourself?
• Shake off the delusion that you are being injured or oppressed by another, and try to realize, by a profounder comprehension of your inner life, and the laws which govern that life, that you are only really injured by what is within you. There is no practice more degrading, debasing, and soul-destroying than that of self-pity.
• The way to true riches is to enrich the soul by the acquisition of virtue.

• Here is David’s testimony:- For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked...... Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than heart could wish. -Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence... When I thought to know this it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end.” 

   The prosperity of the wicke

  • David in the bible
• The rich man who is barren of virtue is, in reality, poor, and as surely, as the waters of the river are drifting to the ocean, so surely is he, in the midst of all his riches, drifting towards poverty and misfortune; and though he die rich, yet must he return to reap the bitter fruit of all of his immorality.
• But the man who is outwardly poor, yet rich in virtue, is truly rich, and, in the midst of all his poverty he is surely traveling towards prosperity; and abounding joy and bliss await his coming
• If you would become truly and permanently prosperous, you must first become virtuous.
• It is therefore unwise to aim directly at prosperity, to make it the one object of life, to reach out greedily for it, To do this is to ultimately defeat yourself.
• You say you desire wealth, not for your own sake, but in order to do good with it, and to bless others. If this is your real motive in desiring wealth, then wealth will come to you; for you are strong and unselfish indeed if, in the midst of riches, you are willing to look upon yourself as steward and not as owner.

  • As steward, not as owner: your motive
• examine well your motive,

• If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. If you are really so unselfish as you believe yourself to be, you will show it by sacrificing yourself for others now. 

   No matter how poor you are, there is room for self-sacrifice, for did not the widow put her all into the treasury?

  • nullThere is always room to sacrifice yourself for others, no matter how poor you are. -- 2013-11-20
    When your motives is to serve others, you can see it now in your conduct even if you are in need now. Exp: widow who give all her money -- 2013-11-20
    
• The heart that truly desires to do good does not wait for money before doing it, but comes to the altar of sacrifice and, leaving there the unworthy elements of self, goes out and breathes upon neighbor and stranger, friend and enemy alike the breath of blessednes

• Money does not constitute true wealth, nor position, nor power, and to rely upon it alone is to stand upon a slippery place. 

   Your true wealth is your stock of virtue, and your true power the uses to which you put it. Rectify your heart, and you will rectify your life. Lust, hatred, anger, vanity, pride, covetousness, self-indulgence, self-seeking, obstinacy,- all these are poverty and weakness; whereas love, purity, gentleness, meekness, compassion, generosity, self-forgetfulness, and self-renunciation,- all these are wealth and power.

• Perhaps you are an employer, and you have endless trouble with those whom you employ, and when you do get good and faithful servants they quickly leave you. As a result you are beginning to lose, or have completely lost, your faith in human nature. 

   You try to remedy matters by giving better wages, and by allowing certain liberties, yet matters remain unaltered. Let me advise you. 

   The secret of all your trouble is not in your servants, it is in yourself; and if you look within, with a humble and sincere desire to discover and eradicate your error, you will, sooner or later, find the origin of all your unhappiness. 

   It may be some selfish desire, or lurking suspicion, or unkind attitude of mind which sends out its poison upon those about you, and reacts upon yourself, even though you may not show it in your manner or speech. 

   Think of your servants with kindness, consider of them that extremity of service which you yourself would not care to perform were you in their place. 

   Rare and beautiful is that humility of soul by which a servant entirely forgets himself in his master’s good; but far rarer, and beautiful with a divine beauty, is that nobility of soul by which a man, forgetting his own happiness, seeks the happiness of those who are under his authority, and who depend upon him for their bodily sustenance. 

   And such a man’s happiness is increased tenfold, nor does he need to complain of those whom he employs. Said a well known and extensive employer of labor, who never needs to dismiss an employee: “I have always had the happiest relations with my workpeople

  • Ling2, mama, papa- the Toko. Mini.  Vs southwest owner. That's why I don't want to be a successor to Toko mini. Th slavery of humanity through harsh labor.

• Do you say that you are lonely and unloved, and have “not a friend in the world”? Then, I pray you, for the sake of your own happiness, blame nobody but yourself. 

   Be friendly towards others, and friends will soon flock round you. Make yourself pure and lovable, and you will be loved by all.

  • Exp: lonely, no friends
• Be it the poverty which galls (and remember that the poverty upon which I have been dilating is that poverty which is a source of misery, and not that voluntary poverty which is the glory of emancipated souls), or the riches which burden, or the many misfortunes, griefs, and annoyances which form the dark background in the web of life, you may overcome them by overcoming the selfish elements within which give them life
• he who has conquered self has conquered the universe.

• 4. The silent power of thought: controlling and directing one’s forces

    
• The most powerful forces in the universe are the silent forces; and in accordance with the intensity of its power does a force become beneficent when rightly directed, and destructive when wrongly employed.

  • the silent forces of your thought either positive which construct, or negative which lead to destruction. 
• All the wisdom possible to man on this material earth is to be found only in complete self-mastery
• always related outward events to inward thought, and associated national disaster or success with the thoughts and desires that dominated the nation at the time
• The universe grew out of thought. Matter in its last analysis is found to be merely objectivized thought. All men’s accomplishments were first wrought out in thought, and then objectivized
• The author, the inventor, the architect, first builds up his work in thought, and having perfected it in all its parts as a complete and harmonious whole upon the thought-plane. he then commences to materialize it, to bring it down to the material or sense-plane

  • The word is MATERIALIZE
    From thought-plane to Sense-plane

• Where there is fear, worry, anxiety, doubt, trouble, chagrin, or disappointment, there is ignorance and lack of faith. 

   All these conditions of mind are the direct outcome of selfishness, and are based upon an inherent belief in the power and supremacy of evil; they therefore constitute practical atheism; and to live in, and become subject to, these negative and soul-destroying conditions of mind is the only real atheism.

  • Wow. New perspective Of atheis.
    Worth, doubt, anxiety are ing oranye Of Faith and they are constitue practical atheism.
    So if I admit I am in constant worry, doubt and anxiety which means I lack faith (to God), it means I am atheis
• To fear or to worry is as sinful as to curse, for how can one fear or worry if he intrinsically believes in the Eternal justice, the Omnipotent Good, the Boundless Love? To fear, to worry, to doubt, is to deny, to dis-believe

  • To fear and to worry is to deny and disbelief God who I proclaim govern my existence.
    
    
    
    This is strong sentence. As i never thought that i deny my faith to God by simply being fear and worry. So it means i deny (commit sin) God every time i worry and sin.
    
    
    
    Pst Jack Graham- Prestonwood church-, KCBI Dec 19, 2013
    
    Evil can smell Fear and Doubt in us.
    
    Fear and Doubt are Sin. I never thought about this conclusion seriously. I commit sin when I let Fear and doubt prevail.
• It is from such states of mind that all weakness and failure proceed, for they represent the annulling and disintegrating of the positive thought-forces which would otherwise speed to their object with power, and bring about their own beneficent results.

  • Wow, it clicked to me now.
    So far until i came to this age, Fear and worry sabotaged many chances of success. 
    I thought to fear and worry are part of human inherent character. But now, i see it differently, they are sin and curse. The word curse is probably appropriate to describe negative consequences of Fear and Worry. When I am fearful and worry, I curse myself from possibilities for success in whatever matters I am engaging at that time.
    Therefore as I want to be successful,I can't curse myself by entertaining the thought of fear and worry. They must leave my thought.
• cease to be a slave, and to become a master

  • Slave of impulsed thought to Master of your thought.
• The intelligent practice of self-control, quickly leads to a knowledge of one’s interior thought-forces, and, later on, to the acquisition of that power by which they are rightly employed and directed.

  • No wonder Joyce Meyer keep mentioning the last fruit os spirit; Self control. 
    Self control means self mastery to take over the proprietor of your mind from evil who slave you with fear and worry.
    Only after I become master of my own thought, then i can master the affairs and outward circumstances.
    As one must able to lead oneself, then one capable to lead others. Lead here means to master one's own thoughts.

• Show me a man under whose touch everything crumbles away, and who cannot retain success even when it is placed in his hands, and I will show you a man who dwells continually in those conditions of mind which are the very negation of power. 

   To be for ever wallowing in the bogs of doubt, to be drawn continually into the quicksands of fear, or blown ceaselessly about by the winds of anxiety, is to be a slave, and to live the life of a slave, even though success and influence be for ever knocking at your door seeking for admittance. 

   Such a man, being without faith and without self-government, is incapable of the right government of his affairs, and is a slave to circumstances; in reality a slave to himself

  • nullA sure prediction of one's past and future success and failure is the degree of mastery of one's thought. -- 2013-12-14
    i was a slave without realize it.  A slave of destructive thoughts I dwelled to  -- 2013-12-14
    A slave is incapable to design his own future, he is at the mercy of his master, which in this case is the enemy of my soul -- 2013-12-14
    I asked for opportunities in life, which now I realize it is at the door seeking for admittance but It could not enter the door which was shut governed by my adversary who control my thought with worry, anxiety, fear and douubt. -- 2013-12-14
    Dwelling in Condition of Fear and worry minds  that made everything i touched crumbles away or I couldn't retain success.- i understand now why i always return to "zero" game, not won neither lost. -- 2013-12-15
    
• Whatever your position in life may be, before you can hope to enter into any measure of success, usefulness, and power, you must learn how to focus your thought-forces by cultivating calmness and repose
• when anxiety steps in, correct judgment passes out.
• clear vision and perfect judgment which belong only to a calm and untroubled mind
• Be guided absolutely and entirely by the vision of calmness, and not by the shadows of anxiety. The hour of calmness is the hour of illumination and correct judgment.

• The difference between a savior and a sinner is this, that the one has a perfect control of all the forces within him; the other is dominated and controlled by them. 
• There is absolutely no other way to true power and abiding peace, but by self-control, self-government, self-purification

  • of the mind: to subdue the worry, doubt, fear and anxiety which are the antithesis of faith.
• You must daily practice the habit of putting your mind at rest, “going into the silence,” as it is commonly called. This is a method of replacing a troubled thought with one of peace, a thought of weakness with one of strength.

  • nullPut your mind at rest- Sharon Rabb advised me, as i concurred. -- 2013-12-14
    2014 I will put my mind at rest more often from morning until sleep -- 2013-12-17
    
• Until you succeed in doing this you cannot hope to direct your mental forces upon the problems and pursuits of life with any appreciable measure of success.
• It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel

  • the distraction, petty things, the wondering minds
• As you succeed in gaining mastery over your impulses and thoughts you will begin to feel, growing up within you, a new and silent power, and a settled feeling of composure and strength will remain with you
• strong people will be drawn toward you, influence will be put into your hands, and in accordance with your altered thought-world will outward events shape themselves.

  • nullthe result of mastering your thought is calmness, peace, joy, orderly, pose, confidence which at the end attract strong people. Your influence will rise among others, you start to lead. -- 2013-12-14
    Very. Weary excited: strong friends will replace weal friends. Once I strengthen my mind, master my mind, new strong friends will come. As I search for inner circle. -- 2013-12-17
    

• 5. The secret of health, success and power

    

  • Very encouraging. It is a law.
• in the near future, the fact that all disease has its origin in the mind will become common knowledge
• Disease comes to those who attract it, to those whose minds and bodies are receptive to it, and flees from those whose strong, pure, and positive thought-sphere generates healing and life-giving currents
• If you are given to anger, worry, jealousy, greed, or any other inharmonious state of mind, and expect perfect physical health, you are expecting the impossible, for you are continually sowing the seeds of disease in your mind

  • Wow
• To become anxious or excited, or to worry over needless details is to invite a breakdown
• the man who can work with a steady and calm persistency, freed from all anxiety and worry, and with his mind utterly oblivious to all but the work he has in hand, will not only accomplish far more than the man who is always hurried and anxious, but he will retain his health, a boon which the other quickly forfeits.

  • I worked hurrily and anxiously.
• True health and true success go together, for they are inseparably intertwined in the thought-realm
• Order your thoughts and you will order your life
• “If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this, ... but if ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.”

• You will not need to become anxious about results, but will work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. 
• Your success, your failure, your influence, your whole life you carry about with you, for your dominant trends of thought are the determining factors in your destiny

  • Your dominant thought is a reliable forecaster for your destiny, either success or failure.
• Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. Let nothing draw you aside ; remember that the doubleminded man is unstable in all his ways
• This, then, is the secret of health, -a pure heart and a well-ordered mind ; this is the secret of success, -an unfaltering faith, and a wisely-directed purpose; and to rein in, with unfaltering will, the dark steed of desire, this is the secret of power.

• 6. The secret of abounding happiness

    
• that all, except those who have entered the way of wisdom, believe that happiness is only to be obtained by the gratification of desire.

  • Wrong Philosophy teach us to pursue our passions and reach our desires to the fullness even with the expenses of others. To accumulate and to mark another record may you get,but emptiness and unhappy will you end.
• that is the cause of all the misery in the world.

  • The cause of misery is to gratify our desires for foods, shelters, possessions, records, fames and reputations. The pursuit of impermanents that will pass away eventually.
• Happiness is that inward state of perfect satisfaction which is joy and peace, and from which all desire is eliminated.

  • Happiness is righteousness, joy and peace, where all self-desires are elliminated
• The satisfaction which results from gratified desire is brief and illusionary, and is always followed by an increased demand for gratification.
• Desire is as insatiable as the ocean, and clamors louder and louder as its demands are attended to.
• Desire is the region of hell, and all torments are centered there.
• The giving up of desire is the realization of heaven, and all delights await the pilgrim there,
• Heaven and hell are inward states.

  • Heaven and hell are about mastery over self and its desires. Henry Tian
• he who has mastered his appetite

  • He who master his sensuous (five senses) desire
• Truly, “He that seeketh his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall find it.”
• How is it possible to find real happiness by centering ourselves in those things which, by their very nature, must pass away? Abiding and real happiness can only be found by centering ourselves in that which is permanent.
• Men and women are rushing hither and thither in the blind search for happiness, and cannot find it; nor ever will until they recognize that happiness is already within them and round about them, filling the universe, and that they, in their selfish searching are shutting themselves out from it.

  • The search for happiness is by living to gratify his desires along with his sensuousness.

• I followed happiness to make her mine,
   Past towering oak and swinging ivy vine.
   She fled, I chased, o’er slanting hill and dale,
   O’er fields and meadows, in the purpling vale;
   Pursuing rapidly o’er dashing stream.
   I scaled the dizzy cliffs where eagles scream;
   I traversed swiftly every land and M.
   But always happiness eluded me. 

   Exhausted, fainting, I pursued no more,
   But sank to rest upon a barren shore.
   One came and asked for food, and one for alms
   I placed the bread and gold in bony palms.
   One came for sympathy, and one for rest;
   I shared with every needy one my best;
   When, Io! sweet Happiness, with form divine,
   Stood by me, whispering softly, ‘I am thine’.

  • By burleigh
• “Taking the first step with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.”

  • Margaret Thatcher quote
• It is not beyond, it is here. It is realized only by the unselfish.

  • Love doesn't insist his own right.
• As you rise above the sordid self; as you break, one after another, the chains that bind you, will you realize the joy of giving, as distinguished from the misery of grasping - giving of your substance; giving of your intellect; giving of the love and light that is growing within you.

  • Master over your desires means rise about self
• Lose yourself in the welfare of others; forget yourself in all that you do; this is the secret of abounding happiness.

  • Forget your self interests with the interest of others
• 7. The realization of prosperity
• He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
• self-seeking is self-destruction.
• Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man, grasping all, loses everything.
• Do not allow the word “competition” to shake your faith in the supremacy of righteousness.

  • New. 
• Never let go of integrity, generosity, and love, for these, coupled with energy, will lift you into the truly prosperous state.

• Do not believe the world when it tells you that you must always attend to “number one” first, and to others afterwards. To do this is not to think of others at all, but only of one’s own comforts. 

   To those who practice this the day will come when they will be deserted by all, and when they cry out in their loneliness and anguish there will be no one to hear and help them. To consider one’s self before all others is to cramp and warp and hinder every noble and divine impulse.

  • Competition to be number One will end up in loneliness and anguish.
• Those who have wandered from the highway of righteousness guard themselves against competition; those who always pursue the right need not to trouble about such defense.
• There are men today who, by the power of integrity and faith, have defied all competition, and who, without swerving in the least from their methods, when competed with, have risen steadily into prosperity, whilst those who tried to undermine them have fallen back defeated.

  • Be the best in your own methods and your own standards. Guard against competitive "evil" spirit. For competition cause you sway from your own best and your own methods. It makes you copy others and your motives of doing is to lead them and put you as number 1. 
    
    Integrity and faith on your own course. That's all you need in life. Your standard of excellence is God's standard of excellence for you, and everybody is given different standard of excellent by his creator. Run your own race, Guard against competition. Then, you will harbor in life of satisfaction, joy and peace, knowing that you have done your very best, a faithful and fervent servants.
• Self shall depart, and Truth shall take its place
   The Changeless One, the Indivisible
   Shall take up His abode in me, and cleanse
• 1. The power of meditation
• Meditation is the intense dwelling, in thought, upon an idea or theme, with the object of thoroughly comprehending it, and whatsoever you constantly meditate upon you will not only come to understand, but will grow more and more into its likeness, for it will become incorporated into your very being, will become, in fact, your very self

  • i will grow into its likeness, into my very being.
    the likeness of God, or likeness of Evil.
    Likeness of God is the fruit of spirit: love, patience, self-controlled, gentleness, compassion.

• Tell me what that is upon which you most frequently and intensely think, that to which, in your silent hours, your soul most naturally turns, and I will tell you to what place of pain or peace you are traveling, and whether you are growing into the likeness of the divine or the bestial. 
• Mere petitionary prayer without meditation is a body without a soul, and is powerless
• He who would secure any worldly advantage must be willing to work vigorously for it, and he would be foolish indeed who, waiting with folded hands, expected it to come to him for the mere asking. Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

  • By Raising early in the morning, meditate (relationship with you and God) to find the truth about you and God. Those who seek, find
• At the outset, meditation must be distinguished from idle reverie. There is nothing dreamy and unpractical about it. It is a process of searching and uncompromising thought which allows nothing to remain but the simple and naked truth.
• Select some portion of the day in which to meditate, and keep that period sacred to your purpose. The best time is the very early morning when the spirit of repose is upon everything. All natural conditions will then be in your favor; the passions, after the long bodily fast of the night, will be subdued, the excitements and worries of the previous day will have died away, and the mind, strong and yet restful, will be receptive to spiritual instruction
• who is beginning to shake off the darkness of ignorance in which the world is enveloped, rises before the stars have ceased their vigil, and, grappling with the darkness within his soul, strives, by holy aspiration, to perceive the light of Truth while the unawakened world dreams on

  • Methaphor: in the darkness of early morning, the light of truth shines to the darkness of your heart. 
• No saint, no holy man, no teacher of Truth ever lived who did not rise early in the morning
• You will begin to question your motives, thoughts, and acts, comparing them with your ideal, and endeavoring to look upon them with a calm and impartial eye.
• If you are given to hatred or anger you will meditate upon gentleness and forgiveness
• The direct outcome of your meditations will be a calm, spiritual strength which will be your stay and resting-place in the struggle of life
• The use of meditation is the acquirement of a knowledge of eternal principles, and the power which results from meditation is the ability to rest upon and trust those principles

  • Agree. As i receive guiding principles during morning quiet times. These Guiding principles guides me as i chart the course of life. These principles anchor firmly in my soul 
• 2. The two masters, self and truth
• the lovers of Truth worship Truth with the sacrifice of self, and ceaselessly guard themselves against worldliness and self-seeking

• Self is the denial of Truth. Truth is the denial of self. As you let self die, you will be reborn in Truth. As you cling to self, Truth will be hidden from you. 
• The light of day is not hidden except to the blind, and the Light of Truth is not hidden except to those who are blinded by self

  • Methaphor
• You cannot perceive the beauty of Truth while you are looking out through the eyes of self. If you are vain, you will color everything with your own vanities. If lustful, your heart and mind will be so clouded with the smoke and flames of passion, that everything will appear distorted through them. If proud and opinionative, you will see nothing in the whole universe except the magnitude and importance of your own opinions.
• There is one quality which pre-eminently distinguishes the man of Truth from the man of self, and that is humility
• to regard one’s own opinions as of no value, this indeed is true humility.
• He who is immersed in self regards his own opinions as Truth, and the opinions of other men as error. But that humble Truth-lover who has learned to distinguish between opinion and Truth, regards all men with the eye of charity, and does not seek to defend his opinions against theirs, but sacrifices those opinions that he may love the more, that he may manifest the spirit of Truth, for Truth in its very nature is ineffable and can only be lived. He who has most of charity has most of Truth.

  • nullDefending the Truth: actually the truth is I am defending my own opinions as Truth and my own interest.- WOW. what a revelation.
    To sacrifice the truth in order to love more. -- 2013-10-25
    Because the truth is ineffable (incapable of being expressed, or described in words), and can only be lived- Another WOW revelation -- 2013-10-25
    
• Men engage in heated controversies, and foolishly imagine they are defending the Truth, when in reality they are merely defending their own petty interests and perishable opinions
• Truth, being unchangeable and eternal, is independent of your opinion and of mine. We may enter into it, or we may stay outside; but both our defense and our attack are superfluous
• Men, enslaved by self, passionate, proud, and condemnatory, believe their particular creed or religion to be the Truth, and all other religions to be error; and they proselytize with passionate ardor. There is but one religion, the religion of Truth. There is but one error, the error of self. Truth is not a formal belief; it is an unselfish, holy, and aspiring heart
• he who has Truth is at peace with all, and cherishes all with thoughts of love.
• You may easily know whether you are a child of Truth or a worshiper of self, if you will silently examine your mind, heart, and conduct
• Are you passionate, self-willed, ever seeking to gain your own ends, self-indulgent, and self-centered; or are you gentle, mild, unselfish, quit of every form of self-indulgence, and are ever ready to give up your own? If the former, self is your master; if the latter, Truth is the object of your affection
• Do you strive for riches? Do you fight, with passion, for your party? Do you lust for power and leadership? Are you given to ostentation and self-praise? Or have you given up the love of riches? Have you relinquished all strife? Are you content to take the lowest place, and to be passed by unnoticed? And have you ceased to talk about yourself and to regard yourself with self-complacent pride? If the former, even though you may imagine you worship God, the god of your heart is self. If the latter, even though you may withhold your lips from worship, you are dwelling with the Most High.
• Having nothing to attack, nothing to defend, nothing to conceal, and no interests to guard, he is at peace.
• sorrow and self are inseparable.
• If you suffer disappointment
• it is because you are clinging to self
• If you are wounded on account of what has been done to you or said of you, it is because you are walking in the painful way of self
• All suffering is of self. All suffering ends in Truth. When you have entered into and realized Truth, you will no longer suffer disappointment, remorse, and regret, and sorrow will flee from you.

  • New. 
    All sufferings, sorrows, disappointment is of Self, because i am clinging to self.
• Return good for evil, love for hatred, gentleness for ill-treatment, and remain silent when attacked
• 3. The acquirement of spiritual power
• To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless
• The pleasure-seekers, the lovers of excitement, the hunters after novelty, and the victims of impulse and hysterical emotion
• The man that is governed by self, and not by a principle, changes his front when his selfish comforts

  • My quotes principle- at the back of my journal
• Your conscience is at least your own, and to follow it is to be a man; to follow the conscience of another is to be a slave.

  • Conscience here means principle
• Search for a rock, a principle, and having found it cling to it; get it under your feet and stand erect upon it, until at last, immovably fixed upon it

  • Find your own principle quotes. Stick to it be steadfast, immovable. It is your own principle. You belief in them, because it has gone through the test of fire.
• 4. The realization of selfless love
• when you are growing patient and calm, when your petulances, tempers, and irritabilities are passing away from you, and the more powerful lusts and prejudices cease to dominate and enslave you, then you will know that the divine is awakening within you, that you are drawing near to the eternal Heart, that you are not far from that selfless Love, the possession of which is peace and immortality

  • Until I become patience and calm, then I know I am closer to selfless love.
• Divine Love is distinguished from human loves in this supremely important particular, it is free from partiality. Human loves cling to a particular object to the exclusion of all else, and when that object is removed, great and deep is the resultant suffering to the one who loves
• Nevertheless, human loves are absolutely necessary as steps toward the Divine, and no soul is prepared to partake of Divine Love until it has become capable of the deepest and most intense human love. It is only by passing through human loves and human sufferings that Divine Love is reached and realized.
• Only that Love that seeks no personal gratification or reward, that does not make distinctions, and that leaves behind no heartaches, can be called divine
• Are you saved from your temper, your irritability, your vanity, your personal dislikes, your judgment and condemnation of others?
• Where hatred, dislike, and condemnation are, selfless Love does not abide. It resides only in the heart that has ceased from all condemnation

  • Me
• he whose heart is centered in the supreme Love does not so brand and classify men; does not seek to convert men to his own views, not to convince them of the superiority of his methods

• He who strives for the attainment of divine Love is ever seeking to overcome the spirit of condemnation, for where there is pure spiritual knowledge, condemnation cannot exist, and only in the heart that has become incapable of condemnation is Love perfected and fully realized. 
• So living, without seeking to convert, you will convince; without arguing, you will teach; not cherishing ambition, the wise will find you out; and without striving to gain men’s opinions, you will subdue their hearts. For Love is all-conquering, all-powerful; and the thoughts, and deeds, and words of Love can never perish.

  • Without seeking to convert, you will convince
• Truth is very simple. It says, "Give up self," "Come unto Me" (away from all that defiles) "and I will give you rest."

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• 4. The Uses of Temptation

  • V.Good
• If a man goes out to conquer an enemy, knowing nothing of his enemy’s strength, tactics, or place of ambush, he will not only ignominiously fail,
• This necessitates continual meditation, ceaseless watchfulness, and constant and rigid introspection
• This is the holy warfare of the saints
• two delusions: first, that all temptations come from without; and second, that they are tempted because of their goodness
• truths are: first, that all temptation comes from within; and second, that a man is tempted because of the evil that is within him
• The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire

  • beware of my desire for:
    - gaby's top school
    - tennis, piano and art's excellence
• A man is tempted because there are within him certain desires or states of mind which he has come to regard as unholy
• These desires may lie asleep for a long time, and the man may think that he has got rid of them, when suddenly, on the presentation of an outward object, the sleeping desire wakes up and thirsts of immediate gratification; and this is the state of temptation.
• The good in a man is never tempted. Goodness destroys temptation. It is the evil in a man that is aroused and tempted. The measure of a man’s temptations is the exact register of his own unholiness
• The honest man cannot be tempted to steal
• the man of purified appetites cannot be tempted to gluttony and drunkenness, though the viands and wines be the most luscious;

  • my eating salads for lunches 5 days a week. since early september 2013
• whose mind is calm in the strength of inward virtue, can never be tempted to anger, irritability or revenge

  • i am still irritated, and angry easily of nagging from winston, and sufi coming late home and working on saturday or at home. it reveal the truth about my present character which are not calm and loving
• Temptation shows a man just where he is sinful and ignorant
• Ye who are tempted know, then, that ye are tempted of yourselves. “For every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts,” says the Apostle Jame
• Establishing yourself, day by day, more and more firmly in that inward Divinity

  • Meditate God's word all the time, to purify your mind. by doing so, gradually your belief will change, which ultimately will reflect itself in your conducts. 
• 6. Discrimination
• by continuously comparing and analysing the ideas and opinions of others. But discrimination is something more and greater than criticism; it is a spiritual quality from which the cruelty and egotism which so frequently accompany criticism are eliminated, and by virtue of which a man sees things as they are, and not as he would like them to be
• Discrimination, being a spiritual quality, can only be developed by spiritual methods, namely, by questioning, examining, and analysing one’s own ideas, opinions, and conduct. The critical, fault finding faculty must be withdrawn
• A man must be prepared to question his every opinion, his every thought, and his every line of conduct, and rigorously and logically test them; only in this way can the discrimination which destroys confusion will be developed.
• The man who says, “I am right!” and who refuses to question his position in order to discover whether he is right, will continue to follow the line of his passions and prejudices, and will not acquire discrimination
• A man must be true to himself, fearless with himself, before he can perceive the Pure Principles of Truth, before he can receive the all-revealing Light of Truth
• 7. Belief, the Basis of Action
• Belief and conduct are, therefore inseparable, for the one determines the other.
• Every man acts, thinks, lives in exact accordance with the belief which is rooted in his innermost being
• it is absolutely impossible for anyone to believe in two opposing conditions at the same time
• The man who believes in justice
• does not grow cynical and pessimistic over the inequalities of life, and remains calm and untroubled through all trials and difficulties. It is impossible for him to act otherwise, for he believes that justice reigns, and that, therefore, all that is called injustice is fleeting and illusory

  • I understand now for the first time
• he who believes in love, in its stability and power, practises it under all circumstances, never deviates from it, and bestows it alike upon enemies as upon friends
• The believer in peac
• There is much talk about, “belief in Jesus,” but what does belief in Jesus mean?
• The supreme test of belief in Jesus is this: Do I keep his commandments?
• belief lies at the root of all human conduct. Every thought, every act, every habit, is the direct outcome of a certain fixed belief, and one’s conduct alters only as one’s belief are modified
• 8. The Belief that Saves
• Head, or intellectual belief, is not fundamental and causative, but it is superficial and consequent, and that it has no power in the moulding of a man’s character
• theological belief is not an influential factor in a man’s life
• heart-belief
• The good Samaritan may or may not have had any theological beliefs nor was it necessary that he should have; but in his heart he believed in mercy, and acted accordingly
• The tree is known by its fruits.

  • Test what one believe by one's fruit. For heart-belief is always reflected in one's conduct, regardless what one's theological/head belief is.
• 9. Thought and Action

  • Very Good
• As the fruit to the tree and the water to the spring, so is action to thought. It does not come into manifestation suddenly and without a cause. It is the result of a long and silent growth; the end of a hidden process which has long been gathering force
• The falling was merely the end, the outworking, the finished result of what commenced in the mind probably years before. The man had allowed a wrong thought to enter his mind; and a second and a third time he had welcomed it, and allowed it to nestle in his heart
• There is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed,

  • Luke 8:17
    For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open
• and every thought that is harboured in the mind must, by virtue of the impelling force which is inherent in the universe, at last blossom into act good or bad according to its nature. The divine Teacher and the sensualist are both the product of their own thoughts, and have become what they are as the result of the seeds of thought which they have implanted, are allowed to fall, into the garden of the heart, and have afterwards watered, tended, and cultivated.
• Let no man think he can, overcome sin and temptation by wrestling with opportunity; he can only overcome them by purifying his thoughts; and if he will, day by day, in the silence of his soul, and in the performance of his duties, strenuously overcome all erroneous inclinatio

  • now i understand the importance to meditate (purify) my thoughts everyday with the word of God. Day and night like breathing. That's the root to turn our conduct which eventually will manifest in the fruit of our tree (thought).
• Guard well your thoughts, reader, for what you really are in your secret thoughts today, be it good or evil, you will, sooner or later, become in actual dee

  • PSALM 19:14May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer
• He who unwearingly guards the portals of his mind against the intrusion of sinful thoughts, and occupies himself with loving thoughts, with pure, strong, and beautiful thoughts, will, when the season of their ripening comes, bring forth the fruits of gentle and holy deeds, and no temptation that can come against him shall find him unarmed or unprepared.
• 10. Your Mental Attitude
• Nothing is fated, everything is formed
• As you think, you travel; as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you
• 11. Sowing and Reaping
• Go into the fields and country lanes in the spring-time, and you will see farmers and gardeners busy sowing seeds in the newly prepared soil. If you were to ask any one of those gardeners or farmers what kind of produce he expected from the seed he was sowing, he would doubtless regard you as foolish, and would tell you that he does not “expect” at all, that it is a matter of common knowledge that his produce will be of the kind which he is sowing

  • Earl Nightingale copied this message from James Allen, Exact phrases.
• Thoughts, words, and acts are seeds sown, and, by the inviolable law of things, they produce after their kind
• Then there is another side to this seed sowing. The farmer must scatter all his seed upon the land, and then leave it to the elements. Were he to covetously hoard his seed, he would lose both it and his produce, for his seed would perish
• It perishes when he sows it, but in perishing it brings forth a great abundance.
• So in life, we get by giving; we grow rich by scattering. The man who says he is in possession of knowledge which he cannot give out because the world is incapable of receiving it, either does not possess such knowledge, or, if he does, will soon be deprived of it - if he is not already so deprived
• To hoard is to lose; to exclusively retain is to be dispossessed
• Even the man who would increase his material wealth must be willing to part with (invest) what little capital he has, and then wait for the increase. So long as he retains his hold on his precious money, he will not only remain poor, but will be growing poorer everyday

  • i remember robert kiyosaki's teaching.
    the key words are: To part with, Retain/Hoard.
    i must be willing to Part With what i have in order to increase what i have.
    I can't Hoard/Retain with expectation to Receive.
• Men are asking God to give them peace and purity, and righteousness and blessedness, but are not obtaining these things; and why not? Because they are not practising them, not sowing them
• 15. Self-Discipline
• A man does not live until he begins to discipline himself; he merely exists. Like an animal he gratifies his desires and pursues his inclinations just where they may lead him
• He does not intelligently reflect upon life, and lives in a series of sensations, longings,

  • i didn't have regular reflective quite time. i didn't have have relationship with myself and with God as i do now in quite time. in today's life, to success we need individualized program. To get that program, we need to know ourself, really know our gifts, strengths, weaknesses, desires, and purpose in life. pursuing Self discipline is worthless and only temporary unless we know ourself.
• he may draw to himself a more or less large share of the outer necessities and comforts of life, he never achieves any real success nor accomplishes any real good

  • After i know myself and able to govern my inward , I able to live just following necessities and comfort of life to life a life greater that these.
• Before a man accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind

  • what a truth. Once my mind is in order, once i can govern my own mind (somewhere in 2011), success starts knocking on the door. Relocated back to Dallas, the new sufi, Winston was born.
    Parenting: Gaby and Winston must learn to govern their inside. it is the prerequisites for their progress in life.
• With the practice of self-discipline a man begins to live, for he then commences to rise above the inward confusion and to adjust his conduct to a steadfast centre within himself. He ceases to follow where inclination leads him, reins in the steed of his desires, and lives in accordance with the dictates of reason and wisdom. Hitherto his life has been without purpose or meaning, but now he begins to consciously mould his own destiny; he is “clothed and in his right mind.”

  • nulli start rise above inward confusion and cease to follow the inclination. i then choose actions that lead to life of meaning and importance. Because i have purpose in life and directing it to fulfillment to that purpose. -- 2013-09-26
    He cease to follow where inclination lead him -- 2013-10-09
    
• he resists temptation and guards himself against all those tendencies to selfish gratifications which are so easy and natural, and which have formerly dominated him

  • i was
• It is a process of living from within outward, instead of, as formerly, from without inward.
• As a man practises self-control he approximates more and more to this inward reality, and is less and less swayed by passion and grief, pleasure and pain, and lives a steadfast and virtuous life, manifesting manly strength and fortitude.
• Without self-discipline a man drifts lower and lower, approximating more and more nearly to the beast,
• By self-discipline a man rises higher and higher, approximating more and more nearly to the divine,
• 16. Resolution
• Without it no substantial work can be accomplished.
• for a life without resolution is a life without aims, and a life without aims is a drifting and unstable thing

• Half-hearted and premature resolution is no resolution at all, and is shattered at the first difficulty. 
• A man should be slow to form a resolution. He should searchingly examine his position and take into consideration every circumstance and difficulty connected with his decision, and should be fully prepared to meet them.
• Hasty resolutions are futile
• Immediately the resolution to walk a higher path is made, temptation and trial begin
• let him first mature his purpose by earnest thought and self-examination, and having arrived at a final conclusion, let him frame his resolution, and having done so let him not swerve from it, let him remain true to his decision under all circumstances, and he cannot fail to achieve his good purpose
• every obstacle must at last give way before a matured and unshaken resolution
• 17. The Glorious Conquest
• A man cannot keep his passions and have Truth as well.

  • New for me
• The tree bleeds while undergoing the process, and the gardener knows that it must not be taxed too severely. The heart also bleeds when it refuses to return passion for passion, when it ceases to defend and justify itself

  • I remember a pruner said that the tree usually doesn't like be cut on the top, or it will die.
• all his pain actually arises in his own weaknesses, and not in the wrong attitudes of others toward him, these latter being merely the means by which his sins are brought to the surface and revealed to him
• so learns to love those who thus unconsciously reveal to him his sins and shortcomings.

  • The other party unconsciousl brought up the 'sin' that is in me when I am offended. I must release him from offend me. Because, it just reveal the truth- the sin/weaknesses in me.
• the wrong thought which lay behind the wrong act is cast from the mind immediately it appears
• thus to understand the inception, growth, and outworking of sin

  • The importance to cast out wrong thought at its inception. Henry: mAster this skill and your conduct will be right.
• from its inception as a seed in the mind to its ripened outgrowth as act and consequence
• To be contented does not mean to forego effort; it means to free effort from anxiety; it does not mean to be satisfied with sin and ignorance and folly
• to rest happily in duty done, work accomplished
• he will find that true contentment which is the outcome of honest effort and true living.

• There are three things with which a man should not be content: 

   1. With his opinions.
   2. With his character.
   3. With his spiritual condition. 
• The truly contented man works energetically and faithfully, and accepts all results with an untroubled spirit, trusting, at first, that all is well, but afterwards, with the growth of enlightenment, knowing that results exactly correspond with efforts
• 19. The Temple of Brotherhood

• There are four chief tendencies in the human mind which are destructive of Brotherhood, and which bar the way to its comprehension, namely: 

   
   
  • Pride
   
  • Self-love
   
  • Hatred
   
  • Condemnation
• From the spirit of condemnation
• cannot see the good.
• 20. Pleasant Pastures of Peace
• For thousands of years the sages have taught, both by precept and example, that evil is only overcome by good, yet still that lesson for the majority, remains unlearned
• Men are still engaged in resenting, condemning, and fighting the evil in their own fellow-men, thereby increasing the delusion in their own hearts, and adding to the world’s sum of misery and suffering
• When they find out that their own resentment must be eradicated, and love put in its place, evil will perish for lack of sustenance.
• Dislike, resentment, and condemnation are all forms of hatred, and evil cannot cease until these are taken out of the heart

  • New. All these 3 comes from hatred
• For it is only pride and self that can be injured and wounded by the actions and attitudes of others; and he who takes pride and self out of his heart can never think the thought, “I have been injured by another” or “I have been wronged by another.”
• He in whose heart the flames of resentment burn, cannot know Peace nor understand Truth; he who will banish resentment from his heart, will know and understand.

  • nullNow I understand why I haven't achieve permanent peace. -- 2013-10-22
    All because of hatred and prejudice are still within me. -- 2013-10-22
    
• The pure man maintains his tenderness of his heart toward those who ignorantly imagine they can do him harm. The wrong attitude of others toward him does not trouble him; his heart is at rest in Compassion and Love

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• • the drive/motivation is the Challenges, not the money.
    They "why" from inside, not external rewards
• Finding Intrinsic, Lasting Motivation to Succeed by Denis Waitley
• For the high achiever, it's natural to seek out challenging goals because he or  she has an inner, intrinsic drive to succeed
• High achievers are looking not to receive, but to contribute, to give
• Since the accomplishment of a difficult task means more to the high achiever  than any external motivation, it means that motivation will remain strong  throughout his or her career

• Suppose you choose a particular career because of the money. What happens  when there's more money in doing something else? You're likely to abandon one  path as soon as another possibility opens up, and eventually you'll find  yourself wondering what you're really doing… maybe even who you really are.
• Since there is no inner drive to stay on any particular path, the journey will  be arduous, and motivation will tend to weaken whenever the external reward  seems remote or out of sight
• This is especially true with individuals who want a home business with high  rewards and minimal risk.

• This week, find your unique "why" and pursue it with passion!
• Lessons from My Father by Denis Waitley
• When I woke up in the morning I could choose to see a fresh new world through my  own eyes -- if I kept my light bright. In other words, if I woke up happy, the  world was happy. If I woke up not feeling well, the world was not as well off.
• Denis, everything depends on how you want to look at what happens in life. It  doesn't make any difference what is going on 'out there' -- What makes a  difference is how you take it."
• My dad taught me that ugliness or beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Want and  abundance are in the eye of the beholder. Being mediocre or being the best  depends on the eye of the beholder
• People's opinions of me isn't what is important, it's the way I handle their  opinions and actions that makes the difference.
• Words to Forget:
  - I can't
  - I'll try
  - I have to
  - Should have  
  - If only
  - Problem
  - Difficult
  - Stressed
  - I, me, my
  -  Yes, but
  - Hate
• This week, I challenge you to remove this list of words from both your mental  and verbal vocabulary

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• Your success depends on how well you think. You are not paid to collect,  sort, store or retrieve information, although you do these things every day. You  are paid to interpret that information and create and implement new ideas. Ask  yourself:

• 1) What can I offer that “they” aren't offering? Where’s the niche that  hasn’t been developed? How can I add value to the service or products I promote?  

   

  2) Where is the market inefficiency? What would make this process more  convenient? How can I do this less expensively?

   

  3) What would people pay for that isn’t available now? Which consumer groups  and Internet communities are the most likely prospects who want what I provide?  What trends will change my and their assumptions about the quality of life?

   

  Breakthrough ideas often occur when you are calmly searching for  opportunities. They rarely occur when you are anxious and frustrated. Close your  eyes and dream this week! Spend some quality time this week thinking about a  breakthrough idea you can apply to your professional life
• Our true rewards in life will depend on the quality and amount of contribution  we make
• “As we sow, we reap.” Life is an unfailing boomerang. What we throw out will  come back full circle.
• freedom of choice. There are two primary choices in our lives: to accept  conditions as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them
• To attain emotional security, each of us must learn to develop two critical  capabilities: the ability to live with uncertainty, and the ability to delay  immediate gratification in favor of long-range goals
• Losers engage in pleasurable activities, with no purpose or result in mind.  Losers try to escape from their fears and drudgery with activities that are  tension-relieving
• They learn from their past mistakes, rather than reinforce or repeat them.
• They spend time taking action in the present, rather than fearing what might  happen in the future
• The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon others for your own  security.
• The world needs role models, instead of critics
• Others know when you have their best interests at heart
• You know you’re a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I’m with  you.”
• Real power comes by empowering others!
• “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark
• We cannot teach our children self-esteem. We can only help them discover it  within themselves by adding positive marks and strokes on their slates
• A Sense of Belonging
• The first leg of self-esteem is a sense of belonging
• Our instinct for belonging—for being wanted, accepted, enjoyed, and loved by  close ones—is extremely powerful
• They want to belong, even if it’s wrong
• make your home a place where your children want to bring their friends, rather  than a place they want to leave as soon as possible

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• Integrity: The Real Bottom Line by Denis Waitley
• They believed you were either honest or you weren't. There was nothing in  between, no such thing as partial honesty
• They move through most of their years convinced that the externals are what  count, and are thus doomed to live shallow lives
• . Men and women who rely on their looks or status to feel good about themselves  inevitably do everything they can to enhance the impression they make -- and do  correspondingly little to develop their inner value and personal growth. The  paradox is that the people who try hardest to impress are often the least  impressive. Devotion to image is often for the money it can reap. Puffing to  appear powerful is an attempt to hide insecurity.
• As you reflect on your past and anticipate the future, understand that virtually  nothing you have experienced has been wasted. It all blends together into wisdom  and knowledge, and creates your own unique brand of cultural diversity.

  • With neutral mind (not hating the failure, or bragging the success), what wisdom and knowledge do i accumulated in the past
• A job is something you do for money. A career is something you do because you  have an inner calling to do it. You want to do it. You love doing it. You're  excited when you do it. And you'd do it even if you were paid nothing beyond  food and the basics. You'd do it because it's your life

  • Henry: WOWWW
• You'll always do well, what you love most

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• Your Own Magnificent Obsession
• The success of your efforts depends not so much on the efforts themselves, but  rather on your motive for doing them.

  • Wow. Motive drives efforts, not the other way around
• the key to their successes was that they were motivated more by an inner  magnificent obsession, a passion, than by any thought of profit or identity
• it must have been a labor of love for someone to be able to have envisioned such  perfection and brought it forth with just a chisel and a shapeless piece of  stone
• Human greatness can't be externally motivated. It must be compelled from within.

  • Wow. notice if i need to be motivated to do it, don't do it.
    Notice, things I do voluntarily because I enjoy it, I strive to be the best and to find out more about it.
    Once you identify it, you would be in the top 1% of the most successful people.
• A magnificent obsession is the way you want to live, not just the things you  want to own

  • it is the life style I want to live.
    Ask myself, what kind of life sytle I want?
    what kind of activities I want to do every single day?
    Who do you want to work with and you want to be around?
• Ask yourself this question: "If it weren’t for money, time and personal  responsibilities, what would I really love to do with my life?"
• the people who know how to control the new technologies will acquire power
• Increase your reading by 100 percent. Decrease your television watching, and  that of any children in your family by 50 percent

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