Search for Wisdom & Enlightenment:
Humanity's Wisdom Versus Natural Intuition
Find the joy in your life and follow it.
Is it really possible to change your life and mental habits by changing your thoughts or are you one fixed essence and that's it?
Is all the wisdom in the Universe simply about knowing who you are in your free spirit which comes from whatever created you?
I believe you have one essence, nature or soul and that's it. You are who you are. The strongest and happiest you can ever be is to follow it as opposed to following the artificial values of the world or being a consumer-spectator not doing much of anything.
Read the wisdom created by our alleged wise people in this book then compare it to my wisdom in A Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment.
This book is my summary of at least 300 books I've scanned over the years in the philosophy section at the library (#100-199), mostly the self-help books which are between #155 to #158 plus there is a website where I can download almost any book for free so I typed in the category "Self-Improvement" then downloaded about 25 books which are also summarized here.
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They say self-help/ self-improvement/ motivational speaking/ life coaching is a ten billion dollar a year industry in the United States. I say it's all a fraud but I reserve this argument for another book I've written.
This book is about other people's knowledge, wisdom, psychology and philosophy about life that I found, summarized and tried not to judge too harshly. I want you to see what's out there then think about what's real and what's capitalist marketing hype.
A Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment is about me looking for the answers to my life by studying the knowledge the world had to offer then realizing that old-time philosophers have no scope of the world I live in and every self-help type book written after 1970 is about slick marketing and hype with a gimmick to try to make money, not one with the real solid answers on how to live a greater life day after day.
If you read my book A Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment, you know that the only thing I believe in is that I have a pure inherent standard inside of me which I honor or stay close to by releasing most of the natural energy in my soul everyday.
After that, there's a ten billion dollar self-help industry in the United States every year. That's an awful lot of money that people spend trying to find enlightenment when the most enlightenment you can possibly get in life is in the previous paragraph.
There's nothing more complicated about life than releasing your natural energy everyday. Everything you do beyond this is either cultural indoctrination or following somebody else's bull.
Beware of all the psychobabble-self help-New Age diatribe advising you on how to find meaning and purpose in life. Most of it is a scam geared to suck people out of their money. I heard about one five-day workshop offered by the "Secret" people going for $10,000. That's a lot of money to pay for their delusional snake oil about the Universe giving you what you want if you have good intentions.
The only real truth in life is to make a good effort to release most of your natural energy everyday.
A lot of the people who write self-help, New Age books are not true artists in the sense that they didn't go out and pursue what they really felt come hell or highwater because they're all giving you flowery, idealistic, stupid, naïve one-liners and formulas, acting as though you just have to follow their x number of steps and you'll be enlightened and successful.
The big gimmick nowadays is that there's supposedly some New Age secret that the great people from history lived by which is to have good intentions and the Universe will give you what you want. Nobody ever told these con- artists who sell these books and tapes that everybody thinks they have the greatest intentions and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If everybody has good to great intentions, then why isn't everybody rich, beautiful, vital, happy and in a great loving relationship? Talk to anyone. Virtually all of them think they have good intentions.
What about all the starving artists? They have the greatest intentions of anyone but the Mystical Force of the Universe is not rewarding them for their efforts.
Whatever happened to creating your life through your own sweat as you live it?
Now they got these New Age phonies comin' on to do PBS pledge specials telling us that by the Law of Attraction the magical forces of the Universe are conspiring to open up worlds of beauty, love and wealth if you just believe hard enough. We used to call this wishful thinking.
It's not that simple. You had better live in the real world before you go off indulging some phony New Age delusions you got somewhere.
If you want the truth, read my book A Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment. Discover what you love to do. Figure out a way to earn a living from it then do it everyday because the prize or the life calling of any individual is to constantly release their inspired natural energy.
I would never tell anyone to blindly follow their dreams or their soul no matter what because except for a few flaky flukes who make it, it's very painful to try to earn a living as an inspired, visionary artist/ guru simply because the world doesn't give a damn unless you got a super fantastic ideas or you can get some big record label or a New Age publisher to back you and hype you up to the mainstream audience.
The biggest lie goin' around nowadays is to follow your passion and the money will come. Tell that to the multi-millions of starving artists out there.
Be wise about everything you do. Have one foot grounded in practical reality. Don't read some flowery book then give up your day job. Financial security is always the most basic bottom line.
You can find hundreds of self-help, New Age books at #133 (New Age), #158 (psychobabble), #291 (religious inspiration) and #299 (religious inspiration) at the library. Try BF500-800 for the Library of Congress system.
I feel I'm an enlightened man because I follow my own standard in life away from everything I was ever brainwashed by.
My central thesis is that you have a true nature that you're born with. If you live to honor it by releasing your natural energy all the time, you feel good. If you're not aware that you have a pure true nature and follow the artificial values of the world, you are betraying who you were naturally born to be. This unused energy builds up inside of you causing misery and depression. This is the unsung tragedy of life that afflicts many people in modern Western Society.
I went through trials and tribulations, like wondering why being in a monogamous relationship with a beautiful, nice woman didn't quell my sex drive which is the same sex drive every normal man secretly has. I concluded that men are not born to be monogamous because their sex drives are so high by nature.
I asked myself why should I work a regular job if I believe I have good ideas that can earn me a living.
I made the big leap when I realized society is screwed, not me. The greatest way I can possibly live my life is to follow my true nature in all its facets even if it goes against all the traditions of happiness and success I was brought up to believe in like pursue a regular career, get a mortgage, get married, have kids, be a mild-mannered, pacified guy who drinks beer, watches sports on TV and plays video games.
I took the journey to discover who I was born to be free and clear.
Most people think they take that journey but picking a major in college is not really freedom or taking any risk to discover who you really are because you are still living in that box of mainstream, Establishment society, playing by their rules, not yours.
College is still a pacified, spoonfed place where you learn canned knowledge in a neat package but never learn anything about examining your own life freely away from society's knowledge. They should teach self-analysis in college.
The bottom line is to pay your own way. It takes guts to believe in yourself enough to say you're gonna explore your life until you figure out a good way to earn a living close to your natural interests as opposed to conforming to some generic job within society. The world is hard. Inspired, original people have to convince conventional people their ideas, products and services are good in order to be successful which usually means a lot of rejection, at least at first but many artists and inventors push on no matter what.
If you take on a safe career in any field but feel like you were born to do something else, like there is some unique unused energy inside of you wanting to get out but you don't know exactly what it is, you'll have a gnawing feeling of emptiness like you missed something or are currently missing out on something until you live by your true nature.
I quit teaching and lived like a pauper in order to have the free time to do whatever I wanted to do within my budget. Over time, I gravitated to the few things I really, really liked to do.
I discovered that I have a natural standard already inside of me on how to live my life. It was there when I was born. I was already doing those things at the age of five then I got brainwashed by the world and followed its ideas of happiness and success until I was about 28 when I realized I have two main inspired interests which is what I dedicate my life to:
Physical activities
Creative-intellectual pursuits
All of society's self-help, psychobabble, New Age, social science and tele-evangelist knowledge fails for me because I discovered I am who I am the way I was born.
The highest you can go in life is to honor your purity as a human being which is your true nature.
You do this by releasing most of the untapped natural energy that is inside of you every morning when you wake up to match the intuitive standard you should feel within yourself of who your God-Creator made you to be. That's it. Anything less is betraying yourself.
Following the artificial values of the world doesn't count because releasing that energy does not enhance the natural power in your free spirit. If anything, it saps it.
Firstly, I release my natural energy in order to earn a living on my own terms.
Secondly, I release this energy because it makes me feel good all the time. I earn my self-respect and create a feeling of euphoria within myself. Nothing out in the world that I could buy, see as a spectator or earn comes close to this feeling of running with my life as vital and pure as I can be.
When I release some of my natural energy, I start to feel myself building up to a state of euphoria as I expend more energy.
My spirits go on high. I feel like a thoroughbred racehorse in full stride in my particular area of life. You free yourself from the generic mundanity of the human condition and soar into that zone of transcendence for awhile, that intense purging of your purity as an individual with joy and love for the process.
This is what artists, dancers, musicians, singers, athletes, inventors and creative people do. They free themselves from a regular flatline life and reach heights of spiritual-esthetic ecstasy by releasing this natural store of energy from their free spirits.
I go through periods of high-intensity exertion throughout the day. It sets up a euphoria in my spirit that I ride like a surfer rides a wave.
Even on slow, rest days, I still go at it at a good pace to release some of that energy inside of me. I have to. I cannot betray myself by letting it sit inside of me unused.
If you figure out how to live by this natural code of life already inside of you, life becomes pretty simple. There are only a few things you're interested in.
I can't feel lonely because by making the pact that I would honor who I was born to be, I made a pact with the Creator-God of the Universe that I would make Him proud of His creation, me so that's my obligation to my life, become the person God made me to be. I'm never alone. I'm always connected to the divine force inside of me.
A great life exists within the human spirit not within material possessions, being entertained or even relationships.
That's the highest wisdom you can get anywhere about human life. Honor the blueprint or seed your Creator-God put inside of you by facing the journey with openness, toughness, tenacity and a strong desire to release your untapped natural potential as your only lifeforce which is what you decide to dedicate most of your life to therefore spend most of your time on.
You're able to see what the artificial values of the world are and what your true nature is.
The more you betray yourself by following the artificial values of the world and leaving the natural energy inside of you unused, the worse you feel. Quite often, people don't know that this is what is causing their feelings of restlessness and emptiness.
Analyze your life. Follow your natural sense of inspiration, what excites you in your free spirit until you figure out what your true nature is then release all that energy to feel the highest euphoria and inspiration any human being can possibly experience. I say you should live like this. Do it everyday. You can't get tired of doing what you were born to do. Michelango sculpted stone until he died at 92.
In conclusion, the only righteous way to live a great life is to set your free spirit soaring on high everyday through what you love to do.
Even if you're not aware of it, your true nature is always talking to you, telling you what's stupid and what's good. All these steps and stages most self-help books tell you to follow are unnatural and stilted. They go against your true nature so your inner voice is telling you that this is stupid, this is not the natural, intuitive way for you to get ahead in life. Most people abandon everything they read in any self-help book within a week at the most.
Everything you need is in your free spirit/ true nature. You have to have the guts to go there and figure it out rather than let it sit inside of you unused while you follow the rules and conventions of the world. It would be a horrible life to die with your natural potential power still inside of you unused.
Chapter 1. Basic Inspiration for Life
The Great Ideas About Life According to Book Publishers
These are the great ideas according to the self-help bestsellers of all time.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
A Course in Miracles is about love and forgiveness.
A person is what he thinks about all day long.
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson is about miracles happening when we resolve to depend fully on God and decide to love ourselves.
Accomplishments are less important than the efforts to achieve enlightenment and mastery.
According to Joseph Campbell, The Power of the Myth, mythical characters act as archetypes for our identities. Archetypes are different types of human spirits.
Achievement happens because you sweat for it.
Al-Ghazali was a philosopher in medieval Persia who said self-knowledge comes from knowledge of God.
All the self-help people say accept responsibility.
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Pascal
Anyone can become angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way-this is not easy.
Aristotle
Anything is possible if you have the gall to try.
Appeal to the noble motives.
Appreciate the rich experience of life despite problems.
Appreciate the tiny details of life.
Are we gluttons or pursuers of truth, love and beauty?
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is an old classic self-help book.
As a man thinketh, he lives.
As we spread love, we naturally feel good.
Avoid needless sacrifice and pursue what you want without guilt.
Bare your soul to yourself.
Be a good listener.
Be graceful when you're feeling bad.
Failure is a learning experience for optimists. Keep going no matter what. Pessimism can destroy you.
Be grateful for what you do have and you will find that it increases.
Be a healer.
Be strong. Serve God.
Be your own person.
Be a lovely human being.
Be aware of other possibilities.
Be open to new knowledge and other viewpoints.
Be responsible for all the results and situations in your life.
Be proactive. You always have the freedom to choose your reaction to problems and disasters.
Ben Franklin's Ideas
Temperance
Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation.
Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.
Order. Let all your Things have their Places. Let each Part of your Business have its Time.
Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Frugality. Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, Waste nothing.
Industry. Lose no Time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions. Sincerity. Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly.
Justice. Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.
Moderation. Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Cleanliness. Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation.
Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.
Chastity. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; never to Dullness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Bless with love.
Bliss is an activity, work, or passion with the power to fascinate endlessly.
Break your mind out of ordinary life.
Break free of limiting thoughts.
But he who, with strong body serving mind, Gives up his power to worthy work, Not seeking gain, Arjuna! Such an one Is honourable. Do thine alloted task!
Bhagavad Gita
Change the world.
Character is power, more than knowledge is power.
Chin-ning Chu, Thick Face, Black Heart (1994) promotes a warrior philosophy.
Circumstances do not make us, they reveal us.
Compassion builds relationships. See things from other people's shoes.
Connect with your nature. Think of your favorite animal. Imitate what you think are its qualities.
Constant self-improvement makes an individual rise.
Control your emotional life through altering your beliefs.
Control your impulses. Know your negative emotions and control them. Use your emotions don't let them rule you.
When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, we improve drastically.
Cooperation, work, friendship, love and marriage are important.
Cultivate depth and sacredness in everyday life.
Dale Carnegie says act interested in people.
Denial is not admitting the truth to yourself.
Depression is feeling defeated, defective, deserted and deprived.
Detach from outcome, the pay-off at the end. Do it anyway for its own sake.
Dharma is your purpose in life. Dharma is purposeful action from the soul.
Difficulty offers the opportunity to learn something.
Discover what you really want, what your purpose is.
Do what you love and appreciate your life as a wonderful journey.
Do what you like.
Do what you love, do what works.
Don't worry about problems because it amplifies them.
Don't waste time on worthless things like hair color and video games.
Don't dwell on your problems. Think about possibilities.
Don't rely on some mysterious power in the Universe that will give you what you want just because you asked for it.
Don't get caught up in pettiness; appreciate your life.
Don't blame circumstances for your plight. You lool like a crybaby. Shut up and do something.
Don't interrupt others or finish their sentences
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Emotional intelligence is important, to be able to feel people emotionally.
Enlightenment is not about the ego, but involves the identification of a goal where you can make a big difference.
Eric Berne's Games People Play (1964) says a that we all have life scripts that determine our actions. The good news is that we can change them.
Even in the most terrible circumstances, people still have the freedom to choose how they see their circumstances and create learning out of them.
Every day in every way I am becoming better and better.
Emile Coué, Self-Mastery through Conscious Autosuggestion (1922)
Express both your masculine and feminine traits.
Express your free mind.
Feel that you are beneath no-one.
Find a vision.
Find worth and meaning despite your circumstances.
Flow around obstacles, don't confront them. Don't struggle to succeed. Wait for the right moment.
Tao Te Ching
Focus on your strengths. Ignore your weaknesses.
Focus on your task in the present.
Forge your own destiny, create something of value, dare to think for yourself.
Free yourself from fear and worry over
results. Do it anyway.
Freedom is melting into one's real nature.
Fulfill your potential.
Gain self-knowledge.
Genius only happens when we become pure instruments for divine expression.
Get rid of any delusions you might have.
Get smart about the world.
Get through difficult periods by staying close to your true nature.
Give honest and sincere appreciation.
Good intentions don't guarantee success in the capitalist world.
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.
Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism
Happiness is a byproduct of forgetting yourself in some activity that uses your creativity and power.
Happiness is not possible in the mind only. It needs action and motion. You have to have the satisfaction of blowing off steam. In sex you blow off energy. In life you do the same.
Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1984) said you can't control some things like illness and accidents.
Hate is conquered by love.
Have low expectations of your friends. Do not depend on other people for your happiness.
He who can be alone and rest alone and is never weary of his great work, he can live in joy, when master of himself, by the edge of the forest of desires.
Buddhist quote
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Neitzsche
Here I stand-I can do no other; this is me, this is what I'm about. Our primary duty is not ultimately to our family, to our job, to our country, but only that which calls us to do or to be.
Martin Luther
History is full of people who achieved amazing things by will and persistence.
How can you appreciate your life?
How do you express the wildness and primalism inside of you?
How can you feel alive?
I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
If you are not feeling any fear or challenge, your life is dull.
If we offer our life to God, He will reveal to us precisely what will best suit our talents and temperament and the way in which we can help the world the most.
If you follow your bliss, they say the gods of the Universe open doors for you.
If you are loving and diligent, you may do whatever you want.
St. Augustine.
If you want to make friends, be good and kind.
If you are wrong, admit it.
If you love too much and expect too much from your spouse, you lose yourself.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
If you are willing to express your uniqueness, you will discover a way to earn a living with it.
If 90 percent of what we worry about never happens, why worry?
Imagination, ambition and will create success.
Imagine your future the way you want it.
In psychoanalysis the patient is generally made to feel like a loser.
In Buddhism, there are four factors of happiness; wealth, worldly satisfaction, spirituality and enlightenment
Individuals create all the great things for humanity.
Instead of condemning people, try to understand them. Try to figure out why they do what they do.
Is there more to you than what you are right now?
Is the prime motivating force a search for meaning?
Is it good to long for a special person to make things right or should you be happy alone?
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
James Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind.
Karma is the effects of what you do.
Karma is cause and effect.
Keep it in perspective.
Life is many trials and tribulations.
Know your dark side.
Know yourself, be ready to manage change and have a plan for your life that does not depend on anyone else but you.
Know how to draw the best out of others.
Know your boundaries.
Know how to make people happy.
Leo Buscaglia, Love (1972), preached love.
Let your friends do most of the talking.
Let the power of your God flow through you. Do His bidding.
Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
Life is tough and serious.
Life is what happens when we are busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Life is full of illusions that prevent us from connecting with our essences.
Life tends to be the thoughts and images you have about it, good or bad.
Live in the present moment.
Look for what you have in common with others.
Look at present reality accurately while dreaming.
Love yourself. Don't feel guilty. Feel mentally free and physically healthy.
Love heals and creates progress.
Love of learning and a desire to improve are the foundation for success.
Love what you do.
Make sense of life's changes.
Make a difference. Transform yourself.
Martin Seligman says you can learn optimism.
Maslow's characteristics of the self-actualized person are:
Clear perception of reality including a heightened ability to detect falseness and be a good judge of character
Acceptance of things as they are
Spontaneity
Problem-centeredness focus on questions or challenges outside themselves-a sense of mission or purpose-resulting in an absence of pettiness, introspection and ego games
Solitude seeking
Autonomy
Peak or mystical experiences
Humility and respect
Ethics
Sense of humor
Creativity
Resistance to enculturation
Imperfections
Values
Maslow's hierarchy of needs and self-actualization is:
the physiological-air, food and water
the psychological-safety, love, self-esteem
self-actualization
Media and technology can take us away from our individuality.
Meditation helps you get over fear, anxiety, greed and hate.
Mental illness comes from a person's unwillingness to face reality and make commitments.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
Mindfulness is choice and control in everyday life.
Minor things make it easy to lose sight of the big picture.
Mistakes are learning experiences.
Most depression is detachment from your true nature.
Nature is worth saving for its own sake.
Negative thoughts have a snowball effect.
Never criticize, condemn, or complain.
No matter what happens to you, you always have freedom of mind.
No one is going to do it for you. It is all up to you.
No matter how adverse the situation, we have the power to consciously decide what we will think.
No matter what the circumstances, his book says, we can be free.
Viktor Frankl
Norman Vincent Peale championed the power of positive thinking.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Sir Walter Scott
Overcome anger by non-anger.
Overcome evil by good.
Patience, ordering of the mind and absorption in the task at hand are the key elements of success.
Pay attention to your dreams and thoughts.
People go looking for life but it exists wherever you are.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around a lake.
Wallace Stevens
Picture who you want to be then do it.
Pierre Teilhard believed that when humankind began living in the state of reflectiveness, we evolved to a super lives.
Pleasure is sensual but lacks meaning. Happiness is about you having a purpose in life.
Ponder your life then act.
Positive thinking is too Pollyanna.
Program in new thoughts, actions and feelings and you get a new life according to neuro-linguistic programming. Everyone has internal voices. Turn them into great encouragers instead of saboteurs.
Protect what is rightfully yours.
Put suffering to good use. When you suffer, keep being productive. Eventually suffering loses its miserable edge and you can move on.
Quality of life depends on appreciating it.
Question your actions and existence.
Read non-fiction books and your life will be enriched and improved.
Real success is making money by helping people not ripping them off.
Reasoning gives us meaning.
Rely on yourself. Pursue your goals.
Replace fear with faith, forgiveness and understanding that you are what you think.
Respect the other person's opinions.
Return to love.
Sales come from a love of people.
See outside the box, focus on the present moment.
See the beauty of people.
Seek peace inside yourself, do work that feels natural.
Seize the day and live the life you've imagined.
Determine exactly what you want to achieve and write it down. Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
Self-sufficiency and positive thinking are good.
Serve other people or at least don't hurt them.
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade
State of mind, meaningful work, good health, sex, love and friends are all parts of happiness.
Stephen Covey says it's cool to be a highly effective person.
Stoics have full responsibility for their actions, independence of mind and pursue the greater good over their own.
Stop criticizing yourself.
Strive to create a community of humanity.
Success and happiness happen when you have a vision you're working for.
Success depends on your value to others.
Success in evil does not lead anywhere, whereas all attempts at good take us higher.
Suffering has a meaning. Learn from it.
Susan Jeffers says feel the fear and do it anyway.
Take personal responsibility. Get a goal and stick with it.
Talent is fine but you have to work hard with it.
Teach yourself to control your emotions.
The social self is not the real you.
The Bhagavad-Gita shows the path to reason, our greatest asset. The Bhagavad-Gita draws attention to the three constituents of nature;
Tamas (darkness), Rajas (fire) and Sattva (light). Tamas is apathy, Rajas is greed, Sattva is noble intentions and peace in your actions. Unless you are doing the work you love, you are darkening your soul.
The Gita teaches that you can achieve a state where you don't need any external compliments or rewards to make you feel good.
The enlightened person is the same in success or failure, it's all about being true to yourself regardless of outcome.
The power of love is strong.
The examined life is worth living.
The power of thought change your thoughts, changes your life.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James (1842-1910)
The ability to handle people well is more valuable than anything else in business.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.
Montaigne
The individual is the unit through which the world develops.
The more we love doing something the better we will be at it.
The inability to forgive causes illness.
The world has endless opportunities for achieving what we want.
The brain can consciously create the desired image of yourself which will help you attain it.
The key to leadership is enthusiasm, curiosity and continual learning.
The biggest pitfall is impatience, creating stress, dissatisfaction and fear.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
The hero's journey is to go out into the world, get beat up by it then say to yourself fuck them all, I'm gonna do my own thing from now on.
The purpose of life is the fulfillment of our potential.
The person who seeks to know God attains self-knowledge.
There are really no transitions for enlightened people. It's just you and your true nature. For what it's worth, a change is a process of disorganization, death and renewal.
There is unlived potential within you.
Think your emotions through. Learn to control anger and lust.
Those who appreciate stillness know what's possible.
Thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22:28
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.
Psalm 23
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8
What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.
Mark 11.24
Thoughts create anger so thoughts can get rid of it. If you are angry, it is because you have chosen to be. Control your negative emotional reactions. Simply don't care what other people say or do to you unless they're right in your face.
Tomorrow could be better than today.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
Treat people as a gift. Try to be kind rather than right.
Trust intuition.
Try to understand other people. You need empathy to develop relationships in business and in life.
Try to see life from the other guy's point of view.
Use your natural wisdom to make intuitive decisions.
Value your employees.
Virtue cannot be genuine when it sets itself apart from evil.
Oscar Wilde
Walk the trail of uniqueness.
Virtue has worth for its own sake.
We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
We have no one else to blame except ourselves.
We attract not only what we love, but also what we fear. If you spend time thinking about it, you will attract it.
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Mark Twain
Welcome your problems. Use them to learn and get stronger.
What does being a free individual mean to you?
What I am I have made myself: I say this without vanity and in pure simplicity of heart.
Sir Humphry Davy
What good shall I do today?
What good have I done today?
What is the ultimate worth of material things?
Whatever your body tells you to do is the right thing. Find your internal compass.
When someone disapproves of you, laugh at them. If your boss does it, act like you're humbly accepting his criticism then he will be pleased and it will be done.
When you have a problem, solve it immediately.
Where's your beauty and freedom?
Would you sell your soul for comfort in conformity?
You are what you think and do.
You are the master of your thoughts, the creator of your life.
You need only one focus which is your true nature, not the glitter of the world.
You are not defined by factors such as class, ethnicity or monetary worth.
You can never please everyone.
You can be materialistic or spirirtual but not both.
You can get everything you want if you help others to get what they want.
You can become the hero of your own life or you can be a snivelling conformist, doing what other people want.
You have free will.
You're a success if you try.
You're not born a clean slate. Your true nature unfolds based on what's available in your environment. What you can be, you must be.
Your security is in your ability to help others.
Your ego is you out in the world. Your soul is the pure you.
Your thoughts create your emotions. Think happy thoughts not sad thoughts.
Your self-image is the result of what you think about yourself; hero or zero.
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