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The point of this discussion of self/not-self boundaries is that there are not just one but many levels of identity available to an individual. These levels of identity are not theoretical postulates but observable realities—you can verify them in and for yourself.
Go looking for "self" and you will discover it is not there and the truth is, there are no boundaries.
Exceptional patients do indeed want to be educated and made “doctors” of their own cases. One of the most important roles they demand of their physicians is that of a teacher.
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope. Hope is not statistical. It is physiological!
The brain-disease model overlooks 4 fundamental truths:
(1) Our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another.
(2) Language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences
(3) We have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching
(4) We can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive.
You start by listening to the thoughts, then you believe the thoughts, and then you believe the thoughts are you. It is important that you directly experience that you are primarily the awareness that hears all voices and thoughts.
Local awareness is one of awake awareness’s four modes of expression, along with spacious awareness, awake awareness embodied, and open-hearted awareness. Local awareness is a vehicle that is already here and can take us home.
You must become a pupil again, a beginner; conquer the last and steepest stretch of the way, undergo new transformations. If you survive its perils, then is your destiny fulfilled: face to face you behold the unbroken Truth, the Truth beyond all truths, the formless Origin of origins, the Void which is the All, is absorbed into it and from it you emerge reborn.
A critical part of rapid cognition is known as thin-slicing. “Thin-slicing” refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience. We actually can find out much of what we need to know just by focusing on the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.
What the populace once learned to believe without reasons,
who could refute it to them by means of reasons?
For fear — that is man's original and fundamental feeling; through fear everything is explained, original sin and original virtue.
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.
Inherently dysfunctional the cost of it appearing to work is very high.
When you care about how you feel, you maintain an energy of receptivity.
How do I want to feel today? Who do I want to be today? What do I want to receive today? What do I want to give today?
An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning. When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, your brain constructs instances of emotion.
Before a person can grow beautiful roses in his garden, that person must grow beautiful roses in his mind. Before an architect can design an exquisite building, he must have an exquisite building in his mind. Before an artist can produce an attractive painting, the artist must mentally see such a painting.
For an event to occur in the world of matter your office, your store, your factory — it must happen first in the pictures of your mind.
Looking in the mirror is the hardest thing in the world. No one wants to admit that they are the cause of their own misery — no one. It’s just too painful. It’s much easier to go about life innocent of our own contribution.
Checking in on our sneaky ego is the key.
Construct an image of humans as entities who consist of more than physical nerves, muscles, and bones. We are multidimensional beings of energy and light, whose physical body is but a single component of a larger dynamic system.
Put another way, humans are mind/body/ spirit complexes which exist in continuous dynamic equilibrium with higher energy dimensions of reality.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Dismissing addictions as “bad habits” or “self-destructive behaviour” comfortably hides their functionality in the life of the addict.
The first question is not “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?”
Human history through the ages, between the power of domination and destruction, mastery and ownership, AND the nonviolent power of co-creation, co-operation, coevolution.
The power of violence and destruction comes from separation from nature and from each other.
Our nonviolent power comes from interconnectedness and oneness. This is why seed by seed, farmer by farmer, plate by plate, we are sowing an alternative based on intelligence and science, responsibility and awareness, care and compassion.
In the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others, and those who proudly call themselves ‘indistractable’.
You can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it is distracting you from. Planning ahead is the only way to know the difference between traction and distraction.
Dramatic Instincts that Distort our Perspective:
GAP instinct, Negativity instinct, The Straight Line instinct, Fear instinct, Size instinct, Generalization instinct, Destiny instinct, Single Perspective instinct, Blame instinct, Urgency instinct.
The world cannot be understood without numbers, nor through numbers alone. How does this “global illusion” work?
The brain evolved to optimize access to safety (brainstem), connection (limbic system), and social status, or what we might refer to as dignity or respect (cerebral cortex).
Whereas conceptual self-awareness takes you anywhere in time, embodied self-awareness takes you to this moment in time. Because sensation can only be experienced in the present moment, embodied self-awareness brings you home to the only moment you ever have for sure, which is right now.
Synchronicity consists of two factors:
a) An unconscious image comes into consciousness either directly (i.e., literally) or indirectly (symbolized or suggested) in the form of a dream, idea, or premonition
b) An objective situation coincides with this content.
The one is as puzzling as the other.
A spirit molecule also leads us to spiritual realms. These worlds usually are invisible to us and our instruments and are not accessible using our normal state of consciousness.
Keep in mind that a spirit molecule is not spiritual in and of itself. It is a tool, or a vehicle.
Do not wish for speedy results. Do not look at trivial advantages.
If you wish for speedy results, they will not be far-reaching; and if you regard trivial advantages you will not successfully deal with important affairs.
“Superior men,” said the Master, “are modest in their words, profuse in their deeds.”
People do not need guidance, they need awakening.
WHAT IS OUR BASIC PROBLEM?
I think most of us are easily satisfied with explanations, and we do not seem able to go beyond mere words and directly experience something original for ourselves. We are always repeating like gramophone records, merely following some authority who promises a certain result.
If you really see the beauty of this, that the observer is the observed, that the two are not separate, then you can observe the totality of consciousness without analysis. Then you see the whole content of it instantly.
The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, “I can do whatever I want today.” The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays.
Find true peace of mind through contemplation, not medication. It is the dialogue, the exchange of ideas itself, that is therapeutic. Distinguish between meaning and purpose, to help you reclaim them both in your own life.
Problem
Emotion
Analysis
Contemplation
Equilibrium.
The grand metaphysical systems upon the faith stating that the good man is the opposite of the evil man is false, rather it is just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.
Men with a still natural nature, barbarians in every terrible sense of the word, men of prey, still in possession of unbroken strength of will and desire for power, threw themselves upon weaker, more moral, more peaceful races.
Money is neutral—it’s paper. It’s just a medium of exchange—nothing more, nothing less. It doesn’t possess some evil power that can change who you are. It’s not magical. It’s not going to change your core being. It won’t change who you are—and if it does, there’s something seriously wrong with you. Money simply amplifies more of what you are. If you’re a jerk, more money will just make you a bigger jerk. If you’re a nice person, more money will make you a nicer person.
CREATE A HOLY SMOKES MOMENT.
I call it the “emotionally charged event” — or what some refer to as the wow moment — the “holy smokes moment.” It’s the one moment in a presentation when you drive your point home, your listener’s jaw drops, and she says to herself, “Holy smokes, I get it now!”
You cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game: having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences, good or bad.
By simply being aware, all that is false and neurotic within you will drop and your eyes will open to the divinity surrounding you. What you are aware of, you control. What you are unaware of controls you. You are always a slave to what you’re not aware of. When you’re aware of it, you’re free from it. It’s there, but you’re not affected by it. You’re not controlled by it; you’re not enslaved by it. That’s the difference.
What is needed is not learning but unlearning, not talent but courage.
We, as human beings, think that we’re thinking. Not true. Most of the time, we’re remembering.
We’re reliving memories. We’re running familiar patterns and loops in our head. For happiness, for procrastination, for sadness. Fears, hopes, dreams, desires. We have loops for everything.
1. Mental loop
2. A meditation
3. Mirror
4. One question
To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.”
Exchange! The perpetual innovation machine that drives the modern economy owes its existence not mainly to science (which is its beneficiary more than its benefactor); nor to money (which is not always a limiting factor); nor to patents (which often get in the way); nor to government (which is bad at innovation). It is not a top-down process at all. It is the ever-increasing exchange of ideas that causes the ever-increasing rate of innovation in the modern world.
Often fear stands between man and perfect self-expression. Stage-fright has hampered many a genius. This may be overcome by the spoken word, or treatment. The individual then loses all self-consciousness, and feels simply that he/she is a channel for Infinite Intelligence to express Itself through.
You dread the depths; it should horrify you, since the way of what is to come leads through it. You must endure the temptation of fear and doubt, and at the same time acknowledge to the bone that your fear is justified and your doubt is reasonable. How otherwise could it be a true temptation and a true overcoming?
The single most important factor in determining successful aging is the personality trait of Conscientiousness. Adopting new lifestyle choices is difficult. But if you remember WHY the lifestyle change is important, you’re more likely to stay with it, even when your motivation flags a little bit.
Not only is there evidence of psychedelic beer and wine at the heart of the Greek and Christian Mysteries, but also evidence of their suppression by the religious authorities.
Some prefer reading about God. Others prefer experiencing God. If you’re in the latter camp, the only way to experience God is to die before you die.
Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Science is the most we know so far about the problems confronting us. It is precisely its openness, the fact that it constantly calls current knowledge into question, which guarantees that the answers it offers are the best so far available: if you find better answers, these new answers become science.
You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So, enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.
Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.
Will our distant descendants know about us or will they think that they are the “first intelligent civilization on Earth” just as we proudly imagine ourselves to be, in our ignorance?
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
We must remind ourselves again that history as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting—because it is exceptional.
The very fact that we don’t know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power. If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt — above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it’s the victim who’s doing something wrong.
The words of our everyday language directly influence the way our brain “wires” itself when it comes to how we think, and even what we are capable of thinking about. A single word has the power to influence the expression of genes that regulate physical and emotional stress.
Man is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker buoys and trail signs of stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there’s a story, it’s all right.
RULE 1: Pick the right pond
RULE 2: Cooperate First
RULE 3: Being selfless isn't saintly, it's silly
RULE 4: Work hard and make sure it gets noticed
RULE 5: Think long term and make others think long term
RULE 6: FORGIVE
Self-compassion beats self-esteem. Success does not lead to happiness as often as happiness leads to success.
Had Joseph P. Kennedy not been the patriarch of America’s first family, his story would be worth telling. That he was, only adds to its drama and historical significance. His primary goal, as a younger man, was to make so much money that his children would not have to make any and could devote their lives to public service.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
Real self-knowledge consists in knowing the following things:
What art thou in thyself, and from whence hast thou come? Whither art thou going, and for what purpose hast thou come to tarry here awhile, and in what does thy real happiness and misery consist?
Plan to start your business in “listen” mode — you’ll find out where your customers are by asking, not by talking.
The three stages before Predictable Success (Early Struggle, Fun and Whitewater) are growth stages. The stages after Predictable Success (Treadmill, The Big Rut and Death Rattle) are decline stages.
Results, not effort, is the name of the game. "WHO" creates results, "HOW" creates problems. Move out of the transactional relationships into TRANSFORMATIONAL ones. You can know what you’re committed to by your results, not by what you say your commitments are. Who do you want to be a hero to?
Who can help YOU do this?
When the war breaks out - run. Preserving life is the top priority. Nothing is more important. Don’t listen to anyone who says anything differently. You get one life only. Death is nothing. Death doesn’t hurt. Enjoy, that is the essence.
We can tentatively define a superintelligence as any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest. Speed superintelligence, Collective superintelligence, Quality superintelligence. We look at artificial intelligence, whole brain emulation, biological cognition, and human–machine interfaces, as well as networks and organizations.
This should be developed only for the benefit of all of humanity and in the service of widely shared ethical ideals.
The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare is that there is nothing so stable in a race as the inherited groundwork of its thoughts.
When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall.
“How do I make someone respect me?”
“You can’t.”
Respect is not something that can be forced or demanded. It’s a gift. If someone wants to give it to you, they will. And if they don’t, they won’t. That’s it.
Yes, your words are your most powerful weapon. But when it comes to commanding respect, sometimes it’s best to hold your silence and simply show the world who you are through what you do.
You first learn to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learn to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have to learn to make gold work for you.
Last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself. Thereby shalt thou acquire confidence in thy self to achieve thy carefully considered desires.
Improbable things happen a lot. Aristotle, as usual, was here first: despite lacking any formal notion of probability, he was able to understand that it is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable.
Logic forms a narrow channel through which intuition flows with vastly augmented force.
The language became more politically correct, but the globalizing goals of cultural uniformity, economic compliance, and homogenized identities remained the same.
Kinship-Mind Story-Mind Dreaming-Mind Ancestor-Mind Pattern-Mind
Respect, Connect, Reflect, Direct.
The reason why you are unhappy is because you are focusing on what you do not have rather than on what you have right now.
What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. Almost every negative emotion you experience is the direct outcome of an attachment.
You must choose between your attachment and happiness. You cannot have both.
Decarbonization is a word that describes the problem, not the goal. Addressing, slowing, or arresting emissions is necessary, but insufficient.
Drawdown describes the reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. There are two means by which to achieve it. Decrease emissions AND Sequester Carbon.
Keep in mind is that the distortion of statistical data and its manipulation to an end are not always the work of professional statisticians. What comes full of virtue from the statistician’s desk may find itself twisted, exaggerated, oversimplified, and distorted-through-selection by salesman, public-relations expert, journalist, or advertising copywriter.
WHO says so?
HOW does he/she know?
WHAT's missing?
Did someone change SUBJECT?
Does it make SENSE?
Dopamine isn’t the pleasure molecule, after all. It’s the anticipation molecule. To enjoy the things we have, as opposed to the things that are only possible, our brains must transition from future-oriented dopamine to present-oriented chemicals, a collection of neurotransmitters we call the Here and Now molecules, or the H&Ns.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. —E. B. White
What is respected by some people may not be respected by others. It is possible to respect one person and not respect another, but it is not possible to revere one person without revering every person.
Authentic Empowerment — the alignment of the personality with the soul
It must strike anyone as a topsy-turvy method to start the cure of natural diseases by the production of artificial; and the principle of vicarious suffering can surely only hold good ethically by voluntary self-sacrifice.
There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. They sell us WHAT they do, but we buy WHY they do it.
When WHY, HOW, and WHAT are in balance, authenticity is achieved and the buyer feels fulfilled. When they are out of balance, stress or uncertainty exists. When that happens, the decisions we make will also be out of balance. Without WHY, the buyer is easily motivated by aspiration or fear.
5 LifeForces are:
NUTRITION
HYDRATION
OXYGENATION
ALKALIZATION
DETOXIFICATION
The key thing to remember, each one you get right works to support the other four. The opposite is also true: if we fail to maintain one of the life forces, it drags down the others, setting off a cascade of failures that can be seriously damaging over time.
Our mental, emotional, and spiritual health is both created and treated by the culture we live in. Ours is dominated by the medical paradigm which, in its diagnostic handling of mental health issues, teaches us to grow up afraid of any “abnormal” experiences.
There is a problem with a default medical model, a tendency to reductionism and an over-eagerness to reach for the prescription pad.
For the children, time moves too slowly already. They rush from moment to moment, anxious for birthdays and new years, barely able to wait for the rest of their lives. The elderly desperately wish to halt time, but are much too slow and fatigued to entrap any bird. For the elderly, time darts by much too quickly.
Understanding why we’ve limited ourselves liberates a new energy in us, which we can draw on to propel us to new heights of abundance, love, and creativity. Once you understand that you’re where time comes from, you have the power to make as much of it as you want.
Friendship and loyalty had trumped self-interest. This is exactly the dilemma that most of us face every day: Do we help our friends or help ourselves? And what are the consequences? Will we look dumb if we help others? Will we look mean if we do not? Is it possible to be nice and survive? And how can we possibly make these decisions when we have many friends in a dancing pattern of shifting alliances and interests?
You are not a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met. You need to have a community. You need to have meaningful values, not the junk values you’ve been pumped full of all your life. You need to have meaningful work. You need the natural world. You need to feel you are respected. You need a secure future. You need to release any shame you might feel for having been mistreated.
You are not suffering from a chemical imbalance in your brain. You are suffering from a social and spiritual imbalance in how we live.
For fifty thousand years, our ancestors organized their daily schedules around their inner clocks.
4 Chronotypes:
Dolphins
Lions
Bears
Wolves
In the world of success, things aren’t equal. A small amount of causes creates most of the results. Just the right input creates most of the output. Selected effort creates almost all of the rewards. Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That’s it. That’s all the discipline you need.
You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel your emotions. You are not your body; you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears.
You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.
We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.
The three levels of telling the truth are: revealing the facts; honestly expressing current feelings and thoughts; and, finally, exposing the fiction you have devised to represent yourself and your history.
1. observations
2. feelings
3. needs
4. requests
We can replace language that implies lack of choice with language that acknowledges choice. We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
“Phenomenological Reporting” STER:
Selflessness,
Timelessness,
Effortlessness,
Richness
Norepinephrine and dopamine typically underpin “romantic love,” endorphins and oxytocin link mother to child and friend to friend, anandamide and serotonin deepen feelings of trust, openness, and intimacy. Flowing through groups at once, you get tighter bonds and heightened cooperation.
This isn’t a comic book or sci-fi movie; this is your LIFE! Changing your brain is something you’re doing every day. Now it’s time to direct the process deliberately in a way that improves your life.
This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behavior is useless. But knowledge that changes behavior quickly loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
If you run a company, you will experience overwhelming psychological pressure to be overly positive. Stand up to the pressure, face your fear, and tell it like it is.
We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Keeping your career in permanent beta forces you to acknowledge that you have bugs, that there’s new development to do on yourself, that you will need to adapt and evolve.
The mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
Could the universe literally be teeming with consciousness flickering in and out, overlapping, combining, separating, flowing, in ways we can’t quite imagine—depending on the laws of physics in a way we don’t yet understand?
"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."
We overcome the lower laws, by applying still higher ones and in this way only. Use Law against Laws!
The best conditions for thinking, if you really stop and notice, are not tense. They are gentle. They are quiet. They are unrushed. They are stimulating but not competitive. They are encouraging. They are paradoxically both rigorous and nimble.
You align with the highest outcome and let yourself be guided to the right actions at the right time. And sometimes with a specific problem, the correct route is simply to wait. You’ll know when a door opens. If you trust that all needs will be answered, you’ll never have to convince anyone, change their mind, or prove your worth.
Energy follows thought. Fighting for peace is like making love for virginity. Peace is attained when we are at peace in consciousness. Saying, “I don’t know” only breeds “not knowing.” Choosing to know brings knowing.
The warrior knows that peace does not come from control but from relinquishing control. Inner peace does not come by accident, nor by desire. Inner peace is a journey toward self-mastery. The war to end all wars is the battle for the human heart.
Stop thinking in terms of a year; instead focus on shorter time frames. Accountability, commitment, and greatness in the moment are the foundation.
1. Vision 2. Planning 3. Process Control 4. Measurement 5. Time Use make you great!
The primary system of communication in the body is not chemical reaction, but quantum frequency and subatomic energetic charge. There’s a physical component to the joy that people experience when helping others, which psychologists refer to as a “helper’s high.”
"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten." Buddha
Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies – all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
There are truths that religious institutions preserve, and which in turn empower those institutions. When religions are sifted for those truths, a different, cleaner side appears. They become the world’s wisdom traditions. They begin to look like data banks that house the winnowed wisdom of the human race.
This is a fundamental truth about any sort of practice: If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve.
The brain, like the body, changes most quickly in that sweet spot where it is pushed outside, but not too far outside, its comfort zone.
Sometimes the unpleasant feelings become neutral, or pleasant, though that isn’t the point. You’re not trying to change anything. Mindfulness itself is a subtle energy with transformative power. Awareness is an energy that transforms anything it comes in contact with.
People are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore. Separating truth from fiction takes time, information literacy, and an open mind, all of which seem in short supply in a distracted, polarized culture. We love to share instantly and that makes us easy to manipulate.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
There are three layers of behavior change: a change in your OUTCOMES, a change in your PROCESSES, or a change in your IDENTITY.
All habits proceed through four stages in the same order: CUE, CRAVING, RESPONSE, and REWARD.
Awareness comes before desire.
Body is a highly intelligent electro-biochemical system, strongly influenced by its internal electrical environment. Countless electrical charges regulate countless biochemical reactions, enzymatic transformations, protein formation, and pH (acid/alkaline) balance. Earth’s surface electric potential serves as the body’s stabilizing reference point or ground.
Awaken within you the ability to contribute to your own healing process. The point of power is always in the present moment. NO ONE thinks in your mind but you.
There are really just two mental patterns that contribute to dis-ease: fear and anger.
The attainment of a woman’s wish, required not closeness but a measure of distance. Females have been scripted to maximize their investment by being choosy, by securing a male likely to have good genes and be a good long-term provider to her and her offspring. Parental investment theory.
Human desires are the steam which makes the social machine work. Only by understanding them can the propagandist control that vast, loose-jointed mechanism which is modern society.
The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.
An immediate, assured source of pleasure is never willingly given up for a larger but uncertain remote satisfaction. Irresponsible people, always seeking to gain happiness without assuming responsibility, find only brief periods of joy, but not the deep-seated satisfaction which accompanies responsible behavior.
Wealth consciousness is a state of mind, a sense, not of believing, but really knowing that what we need is available to us. There is power in knowledge, desire, and spirit. And this power within you is the key to creating affluence.
A remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.
Acquire the habitude of 13 virtues. Don't distract your attention by attempting the whole at once, but one of them at a time. Master one, then proceed to another, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, arranged them with that in mind.
Masculinity changes. That’s the whole idea. It’s almost impossible even to discuss it with other adults. For a society that constantly claims we shouldn’t make any distinctions between men and women, we sure spend an awful lot of time defining exactly what those differences are.
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves. It is a tormenting tension and it must be borne, but the choice is clear.
“Ignorance is not knowing anything and being attracted to the good. Innocence is knowing everything, and still being attracted to the good.”
It requires a clear vision and a change in energy — that is, a new state of being — that is sustained for a long enough period of time and executed with a strong enough will that it causes others to raise their own energy and become inspired to do the same.
Behavioral issues simply can’t be resolved with a one-size-fits-all approach that we apply to every circumstance or environment or child.
What is your definition of discipline anyway, and why do we immediately tie it to punishment, rather than an opportunity to learn and grow?
Believe, the only way a person ever truly changes anything about self is by own decision, and that everyone has the ability to change anything they want to about their personality. There is no limit to what you can release and what you can acquire. Also believe the only true influence you have on anyone else is by your own life, how you act, what you do.
When something needs to be said, I’ll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet. A life without love is of no account. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.
1. Have the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expect of me
2. Don't work so hard
3. Have the courage to express my feelings
4. Stay in touch with my friends
5. Let myself be happier
Golden Ray is the 12th Ray of Creation. It is the highest frequency of God’s Light on the Earth Plane and is, what is known as Christ Consciousness and the experience of Oneness with the Creator.
"They thought bullets would silence us, but they failed. Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
STAGES OF CHANGE
Stage 1: Pre-contemplation
Stage 2: Contemplation
Stage 3: Preparation
Stage 4: Action
Stage 5: Ongoing Maintenance
Stage 6: Relapse or Termination
“It ain’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble. It’s what we know that ain’t so that gives us trouble.”
Master the use of ANECDOTES
What is now proved was once only imagined.
You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
In order to truly care for someone unconditionally, I have to feel that way toward myself. I can’t give away what I don’t have.
Selfishness comes from lack of self-love.
My way. Your way.
The Right Way.
He said. She said.
Blindness.
Truth.
Transcendence.
It is not certainty, but freedom from certainty that empowered people to make judgments about right and wrong: knowing that they could never be more than provisionally right, but able to act nonetheless.
The universe isn’t the four-dimensional construction we humans are used to perceiving and living in. Humans function in a world of height, depth, width, and time. That’s all we know. But that’s not all there is, not by a long shot.
Oxygen. A person breathes in nearly 2 pounds of oxygen a day, to live. Who produces oxygen?
Your Soul is the oldest, wisest, and always-loving part of yourself, and your Soul has access to incredible knowledge. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
MARK TWAIN
The “I” has never been and never will be born, only the body. The true, divine self is perfection itself, so a development in it is not possible. Only the body must develop in order to be able to manifest higher and higher vibrations and higher and higher frequencies of the self.
“As you think, so are you” does not mean “as you tell people what you think,” or “as you would wish the world to believe you think.” It means your innermost thoughts; that place where no one but you know.
You don’t have to add time to your day to learn new habits; you just have to replace the old habits. When you focus on the outcome rather than the obstacle, your life will never be the same.
Negotiating does not mean browbeating or grinding someone down. It simply means playing the emotional game that human society is set up for. In this world, you get what you ask for; you just have to ask correctly.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished; If you are alive, it isn’t.
Remember, you don’t tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
If you let outside pressures determine how you feel and what you do, you have just abdicated your job as CEO of your own life.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal?
The most that any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something—an object or ourselves—and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force.
The fight-or-flight response, a.k.a. the adrenaline rush, cocktails adrenaline, cortisol (the stress hormone), and norepinephrine.The brain switches to reactive survival autopilot. Options are limited to three: fight, flee, or freeze. FLOW is the opposite: a creative problem-solving state, options wide open.
Your customer should be the hero of the story, not your brand. Help defeat a villain by solving external, internal and philosophical problems. Create reciprocity. Position yourself as the guide.
We move information from our head, to our heart, through our hands.
Armored leadership vs.
Daring Leadership
Listen with the same passion with which you want to be heard.
The enemy for both sexes is not the other sex but infantile grandiosity and the splitting of the Self that results from it.
Demeter - the mother Persephone - the daughter
Hera - the wife
Aphrodite - the lover
Artemis - the sister and competitor
Athena - the strategist Hestia - the hearth keeper
1. Whiteness your judgment without judgment
2. Honor the wound
3. Put love on the altar
4. See for the first time
5. Cut the cords
6. Bring your shadows to light
Human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a REASON to become happy.
Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ENSUE.
COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY
COGNITIVE SELF-CONTROL "We need to let ourselves fail and discover ways to learn from these failures which will lead us to fear failure less."
If you want to experience the Field, you have to experience moving your attention even if it’s for just 5 minutes a day to start.
“If you were a human sperm, there is no prize for coming second.” What is best for one partner is very often not best for the other.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
PARENT:
Play, Authenticity, Reframing, Empathy, NO ultimatums, Togetherness.
“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.”
How much time do I have left here? How many more breaths are meant for me? What makes my life meaningful enough to go on living?
If there is less fascination and satisfaction with the explosion and release of your energy, then there is more likelihood of transmuting it.
Learn from your friends, learn from your enemies!
LISTEN to your GUT.
THINK BIG. BE FLEXIBLE.
Show up with ENERGY and ENTHUSIASM. Stand up TALL. ACT!
1. Setup 2. Crisis 3. Pursuit
4. Conflict 5. Climax
6. The Aftermath
Your GOAL is to elicit emotions
1% PROGRESS +
daily application (CONSISTENCY) +
persistence (FOCUS) +
time (ENDURANCE) = SUCCESS
"Maximum growth happens at the intersection of support and challenge."
Care/Harm
Fairness/Cheating Loyalty/Betrayal
Authority/Subversion
Sanctity/Degradation
“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.”
We continuously add information to our genetic code. Do it consciously!
“If our mind is sick, we are sick. Focus on the individual, not the disease.”
Break free from the emotions that you have memorized - which have become your personality.
To Change Your Life, Change Your Beliefs about the Nature of Reality.
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
Authentic happiness is far more than just fixing what's wrong. It is about identifying, cultivating and amplifying ones most fundamental strengths and virtues, using these traits to the fullest every day at work, love, play and parenting.
1. Dopamine VOLTAGE
2. Acetylcholine SPEED
3. GABA RHYTHM
4. Serotonin SYNCHRONY
Know your nature. Balance.
The more you believe that you are in control of your life, your actions and your future the happier and more successful you will be. Hesitation is the kiss of death. 5,4,3,2,1 GO!
"To love both the invisible God, Repository of all Virtues, and visible man, apparently possessed of none, is often baffling. Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds-the stalwart kinship of selfish motive."
"It is not objects and events, but the interpretations we place on them that are the problem. Our duty is therefore to exercise stringent control over faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error."
1. Instruction
2. Practice
3. Surrender
4. Intentionality
5. Edge
To learn is to change and change is inevitable!
"Don't believe anything I, or anyone else tells you about something as individual as nutrition, diet and health. Instead, do your diligence. Be responsible."
Are you a bit fucked? Could you not be fucked? Are you, on your own, going to un-fuck yourself?
"This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud"
"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day - Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death"
"Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people-they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress."
Pass from the competitive to the creative mind! Creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth! Always give use value in excess of the cash value received.
Increase LIFE!
BE in the PRESENT. NEVER give up! Fear-LESS.
“I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
Responsibility actually means YOUR ability to RESPOND.
"In rage, you become one with the group, out of rage, you become one with the Universe" Decide to go IN and explore.
How nutritious is the food you eat? KNOW your FOOD.
"I am not asking you to diet. I am asking you to change your fundamental beliefs about food."
PRESENT Moment Awareness
Intention and Attention
Self-referral vs. Object-referral
Acceptance - Responsibility - Defenselessness
By infusing leadership into everything you do and each thing you touch, you can live remarkably.
Be more
H-elpful
U-nderstanding
M-indful
A-musing
N-urturing.
Power actually energizes, it gives forth, supplies and supports. It gives life and energy. Force on the other hand has to be justified, constantly consumes and it also has an insatiable appetite. Power attracts and force repels.
Commit - Share - Motivate - Communicate - Appreciate - Celebrate - Listen - Exceed
Control your expenses better than the competition and don't be afraid to go the opposite direction from everyone else.
"The greatest secret of a powerful memory is to bring information to life with your endless imagination." Concentration, Creation of Imagery, Connection of Concepts, Continuous use
"Our interpretation of reality changes our experience of that reality." Is my interpretation from a base of gratitude or ego? Common sense is NOT common action. ACT!
"If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking"
R.B. Fuller
Let yourself fall in love with your creativity. Love always overtakes fear. Look at it with fresh eyes of a passionate lover. Sneak off and have a secret affair with your most creative self.
Falling in love is not by choice, staying in love IS. Keep the love tank full, by choice.
1. Words of Affirmation 2. Quality Time 3. Receiving Gifts 4. Acts of Service 5. Physical Touch
"When you become you, Zen becomes Zen. When you are you, you see things as they are and you become one with your surroundings"
1. Right Practice 2. Right Attitude 3. Right Understanding
"When you become too focused on what is going on around you, you lose touch with whats going on deep inside you." Is your dark side controlling you, or are you controlling your dark side? Trust yourself. Decide. Be relentless!
"Correlation does not equal causation." Where is your knowledge coming from? What do you eat? How is it working our for you? Listen to your intuition, LOVE your body, it is your home, it is a temple!
Make the "Gatekeeper" one of your "I AMs". Through relaxation, allowing manifestation - I can BE what I WILL to be
1. Seek Clarity 2. Generate Energy 3. Raise Necessity 4. Increase Productivity 5. Develop Influence 6. Demonstrate Courage
"RELEASE tension - Introduce INTENTION"
"If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life."
Things I CAN control: Thoughts I think, Images I visualize and Actions I take!
"Compare yourself to who YOU were yesterday, not to who someone else is today"
Set your house in order first! Be precise in your speech, words are spells.
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”
Choose: 1. Fast, Intuitive, Emotional or
2. Slow, Deliberate, Thinking
Choose: 1. Fast, Intuitive, Emotional or
2. Slow, Deliberate, Thinking
Its never the answer, it is always the question! Ask different questions. Daily routine and repetition create your reality, create you life. What is your daily routine and how is it serving you?
"If you can hold it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand!" NOTHING is impossible. Awareness, Want, Decision, Commitment, Accountability, Focus, Discipline, Visioning
“Commitment gives you freedom because you're no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous.” Decide where you want to place your concerns!
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition! If you believe you WILL see. "You cannot stop the human mind from working."
"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change" Follow your heart, FIND your higher purpose.
SIMPLICITY is the key.
Slow down and just BE. Powerful conversations, create powerful relationships.
Slow down and just BE. Powerful conversations, create powerful relationships.
You have the power of CHOICE. No one can manage time, there is no time but NOW. We can only manage activities we perform HERE and NOW. Create habits that make you GREAT!
If you are worried about a moment in the past, or a moment from the future that might never come, what happens to the moment you are in? The only time we should ever be even considering is NOW.
“I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.”
Take care of your mind, it all starts there. Multiple Sources of income start with the correct mindset.
Take care of your mind, it all starts there. Multiple Sources of income start with the correct mindset.
Be Impeccable With Your Words Don't Take Anything Personally Don't Make Assumptions Always Do Your Best React and lose control, Respond and be FREE
“First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don’t.”
Be AWARE, what the eyes see the mind believes. Close your eyes and tell your mind what you want it to see.
Be AWARE, what the eyes see the mind believes. Close your eyes and tell your mind what you want it to see.
It is this book that changed my life completely and keeps on changing my clients lives every day. This is a gold mine of coaching strategies.
“There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive?”
It is always all about the perspective.
It is always all about the perspective.
Relax. Observe. Listen. You do have a choice to simply BE and not engage. It is what it is, accept it. Harvest the good. Forgive the rest.
“In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.”
Exercise your mind. BELIEVE in yourself!
Exercise your mind. BELIEVE in yourself!
“You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”
What they think of you is none of your business. What do you think of you?
What they think of you is none of your business. What do you think of you?
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
Appreciation and Gratitude
Appreciation and Gratitude
“In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.”
Take a good, long, look in the mirror. Who are you? Who do you want to be? Wake up, take responsibility and take charge of your life! BE the best you can be!
Take a good, long, look in the mirror. Who are you? Who do you want to be? Wake up, take responsibility and take charge of your life! BE the best you can be!
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.” BE it, DO it, HAVE it.
“The most influential leaders are those who know how to arrange group conditions to allow the principle of social proof to work maximally in their favor.”
"Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your mind."
Be the gardener of your mind
Ask, Allow, Receive. All you have to do is make sure you know how you FEEL in the present moment.
How I walked my life into financial freedom
and independence from physical location.
How Can You Walk Your Life Into Financial Freedom
And Independence From Physical Location?
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Exceptional patients do indeed want to be educated and made “doctors” of their own cases. One of the most important roles they demand of their physicians is that of a teacher.
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope. Hope is not statistical. It is physiological!
The point of this discussion of self/not-self boundaries is that there are not just one but many levels of identity available to an individual. These levels of identity are not theoretical postulates but observable realities—you can verify them in and for yourself.
Go looking for "self" and you will discover it is not there and the truth is, there are no boundaries.
A critical part of rapid cognition is known as thin-slicing. “Thin-slicing” refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience. We actually can find out much of what we need to know just by focusing on the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.
You must become a pupil again, a beginner; conquer the last and steepest stretch of the way, undergo new transformations. If you survive its perils, then is your destiny fulfilled: face to face you behold the unbroken Truth, the Truth beyond all truths, the formless Origin of origins, the Void which is the All, is absorbed into it and from it you emerge reborn.
You start by listening to the thoughts, then you believe the thoughts, and then you believe the thoughts are you. It is important that you directly experience that you are primarily the awareness that hears all voices and thoughts.
Local awareness is one of awake awareness’s four modes of expression, along with spacious awareness, awake awareness embodied, and open-hearted awareness. Local awareness is a vehicle that is already here and can take us home.
The brain-disease model overlooks 4 fundamental truths:
(1) Our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another.
(2) Language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences
(3) We have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching
(4) We can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive.
An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning. When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, your brain constructs instances of emotion.
When you care about how you feel, you maintain an energy of receptivity.
How do I want to feel today? Who do I want to be today? What do I want to receive today? What do I want to give today?
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.
Inherently dysfunctional the cost of it appearing to work is very high.
What the populace once learned to believe without reasons, who could refute it to them by means of reasons?
For fear — that is man's original and fundamental feeling; through fear everything is explained, original sin and original virtue.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Dismissing addictions as “bad habits” or “self-destructive behaviour” comfortably hides their functionality in the life of the addict.
The first question is not “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?”
Construct an image of humans as entities who consist of more than physical nerves, muscles, and bones. We are multidimensional beings of energy and light, whose physical body is but a single component of a larger dynamic system.
Put another way, humans are mind/body/ spirit complexes which exist in continuous dynamic equilibrium with higher energy dimensions of reality.
Looking in the mirror is the hardest thing in the world. No one wants to admit that they are the cause of their own misery — no one. It’s just too painful. It’s much easier to go about life innocent of our own contribution.
Checking in on our sneaky ego is the key.
Before a person can grow beautiful roses in his garden, that person must grow beautiful roses in his mind. Before an architect can design an exquisite building, he must have an exquisite building in his mind. Before an artist can produce an attractive painting, the artist must mentally see such a painting.
For an event to occur in the world of matter your office, your store, your factory — it must happen first in the pictures of your mind.
The brain evolved to optimize access to safety (brainstem), connection (limbic system), and social status, or what we might refer to as dignity or respect (cerebral cortex).
Whereas conceptual self-awareness takes you anywhere in time, embodied self-awareness takes you to this moment in time. Because sensation can only be experienced in the present moment, embodied self-awareness brings you home to the only moment you ever have for sure, which is right now.
Dramatic Instincts that Distort our Perspective:
GAP instinct, Negativity instinct, The Straight Line instinct, Fear instinct, Size instinct, Generalization instinct, Destiny instinct, Single Perspective instinct, Blame instinct, Urgency instinct.
The world cannot be understood without numbers, nor through numbers alone. How does this “global illusion” work?
In the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others, and those who proudly call themselves ‘indistractable’.
You can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it is distracting you from. Planning ahead is the only way to know the difference between traction and distraction.
Human history through the ages, between the power of domination and destruction, mastery and ownership, AND the nonviolent power of co-creation, co-operation, coevolution.
The power of violence and destruction comes from separation from nature and from each other.
Our nonviolent power comes from interconnectedness and oneness. This is why seed by seed, farmer by farmer, plate by plate, we are sowing an alternative based on intelligence and science, responsibility and awareness, care and compassion.
People do not need guidance, they need awakening.
WHAT IS OUR BASIC PROBLEM?
I think most of us are easily satisfied with explanations, and we do not seem able to go beyond mere words and directly experience something original for ourselves. We are always repeating like gramophone records, merely following some authority who promises a certain result.
Do not wish for speedy results. Do not look at trivial advantages.
If you wish for speedy results, they will not be far-reaching; and if you regard trivial advantages you will not successfully deal with important affairs.
“Superior men,” said the Master, “are modest in their words, profuse in their deeds.”
A spirit molecule also leads us to spiritual realms. These worlds usually are invisible to us and our instruments and are not accessible using our normal state of consciousness.
Keep in mind that a spirit molecule is not spiritual in and of itself. It is a tool, or a vehicle.
Synchronicity consists of two factors:
a) An unconscious image comes into consciousness either directly (i.e., literally) or indirectly (symbolized or suggested) in the form of a dream, idea, or premonition
b) An objective situation coincides with this content.
The one is as puzzling as the other.
The grand metaphysical systems upon the faith stating that the good man is the opposite of the evil man is false, rather it is just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.
Men with a still natural nature, barbarians in every terrible sense of the word, men of prey, still in possession of unbroken strength of will and desire for power, threw themselves upon weaker, more moral, more peaceful races.
Find true peace of mind through contemplation, not medication. It is the dialogue, the exchange of ideas itself, that is therapeutic. Distinguish between meaning and purpose, to help you reclaim them both in your own life.
Problem
Emotion
Analysis
Contemplation
Equilibrium.
The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, “I can do whatever I want today.” The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays.
If you really see the beauty of this, that the observer is the observed, that the two are not separate, then you can observe the totality of consciousness without analysis. Then you see the whole content of it instantly.
By simply being aware, all that is false and neurotic within you will drop and your eyes will open to the divinity surrounding you. What you are aware of, you control. What you are unaware of controls you. You are always a slave to what you’re not aware of. When you’re aware of it, you’re free from it. It’s there, but you’re not affected by it. You’re not controlled by it; you’re not enslaved by it. That’s the difference.
What is needed is not learning but unlearning, not talent but courage.
You cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game: having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences, good or bad.
CREATE A HOLY SMOKES MOMENT.
I call it the “emotionally charged event” — or what some refer to as the wow moment — the “holy smokes moment.” It’s the one moment in a presentation when you drive your point home, your listener’s jaw drops, and she says to herself, “Holy smokes, I get it now!”
Money is neutral—it’s paper. It’s just a medium of exchange—nothing more, nothing less. It doesn’t possess some evil power that can change who you are. It’s not magical. It’s not going to change your core being. It won’t change who you are—and if it does, there’s something seriously wrong with you. Money simply amplifies more of what you are. If you’re a jerk, more money will just make you a bigger jerk. If you’re a nice person, more money will make you a nicer person.
Often fear stands between man and perfect self-expression. Stage-fright has hampered many a genius. This may be overcome by the spoken word, or treatment. The individual then loses all self-consciousness, and feels simply that he/she is a channel for Infinite Intelligence to express Itself through.
Exchange! The perpetual innovation machine that drives the modern economy owes its existence not mainly to science (which is its beneficiary more than its benefactor); nor to money (which is not always a limiting factor); nor to patents (which often get in the way); nor to government (which is bad at innovation). It is not a top-down process at all. It is the ever-increasing exchange of ideas that causes the ever-increasing rate of innovation in the modern world.
To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.”
We, as human beings, think that we’re thinking. Not true. Most of the time, we’re remembering.
We’re reliving memories. We’re running familiar patterns and loops in our head. For happiness, for procrastination, for sadness. Fears, hopes, dreams, desires. We have loops for everything.
1. Mental loop
2. A meditation
3. Mirror
4. One question
Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Science is the most we know so far about the problems confronting us. It is precisely its openness, the fact that it constantly calls current knowledge into question, which guarantees that the answers it offers are the best so far available: if you find better answers, these new answers become science.
Not only is there evidence of psychedelic beer and wine at the heart of the Greek and Christian Mysteries, but also evidence of their suppression by the religious authorities.
Some prefer reading about God. Others prefer experiencing God. If you’re in the latter camp, the only way to experience God is to die before you die.
The single most important factor in determining successful aging is the personality trait of Conscientiousness. Adopting new lifestyle choices is difficult. But if you remember WHY the lifestyle change is important, you’re more likely to stay with it, even when your motivation flags a little bit.
You dread the depths; it should horrify you, since the way of what is to come leads through it. You must endure the temptation of fear and doubt, and at the same time acknowledge to the bone that your fear is justified and your doubt is reasonable. How otherwise could it be a true temptation and a true overcoming?
The very fact that we don’t know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power. If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt — above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it’s the victim who’s doing something wrong.
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
We must remind ourselves again that history as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting—because it is exceptional.
Will our distant descendants know about us or will they think that they are the “first intelligent civilization on Earth” just as we proudly imagine ourselves to be, in our ignorance?
You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.
Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.
Had Joseph P. Kennedy not been the patriarch of America’s first family, his story would be worth telling. That he was, only adds to its drama and historical significance. His primary goal, as a younger man, was to make so much money that his children would not have to make any and could devote their lives to public service.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
RULE 1: Pick the right pond
RULE 2: Cooperate First
RULE 3: Being selfless isn't saintly, it's silly
RULE 4: Work hard and make sure it gets noticed
RULE 5: Think long term and make others think long term
RULE 6: FORGIVE
Self-compassion beats self-esteem. Success does not lead to happiness as often as happiness leads to success.
Man is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker buoys and trail signs of stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there’s a story, it’s all right.
The words of our everyday language directly influence the way our brain “wires” itself when it comes to how we think, and even what we are capable of thinking about. A single word has the power to influence the expression of genes that regulate physical and emotional stress.
When the war breaks out - run. Preserving life is the top priority. Nothing is more important. Don’t listen to anyone who says anything differently. You get one life only. Death is nothing. Death doesn’t hurt. Enjoy, that is the essence.
Results, not effort, is the name of the game. "WHO" creates results, "HOW" creates problems. Move out of the transactional relationships into TRANSFORMATIONAL ones.
You can know what you’re committed to by your results, not by what you say your commitments are.
Who do you want to be a hero to?
Who can help YOU do this?
Plan to start your business in “listen” mode — you’ll find out where your customers are by asking, not by talking.
The three stages before Predictable Success (Early Struggle, Fun and Whitewater) are growth stages. The stages after Predictable Success (Treadmill, The Big Rut and Death Rattle) are decline stages.
Real self-knowledge consists in knowing the following things:
What art thou in thyself, and from whence hast thou come? Whither art thou going, and for what purpose hast thou come to tarry here awhile, and in what does thy real happiness and misery consist?
You first learn to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learn to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have to learn to make gold work for you.
Last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself. Thereby shalt thou acquire confidence in thy self to achieve thy carefully considered desires.
“How do I make someone respect me?”
“You can’t.”
Respect is not something that can be forced or demanded. It’s a gift. If someone wants to give it to you, they will. And if they don’t, they won’t. That’s it.
Yes, your words are your most powerful weapon. But when it comes to commanding respect, sometimes it’s best to hold your silence and simply show the world who you are through what you do.
The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare is that there is nothing so stable in a race as the inherited groundwork of its thoughts.
When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall.
We can tentatively define a superintelligence as any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest. Speed superintelligence, Collective superintelligence, Quality superintelligence. We look at artificial intelligence, whole brain emulation, biological cognition, and human–machine interfaces, as well as networks and organizations.
This should be developed only for the benefit of all of humanity and in the service of widely shared ethical ideals.
Decarbonization is a word that describes the problem, not the goal. Addressing, slowing, or arresting emissions is necessary, but insufficient.
Drawdown describes the reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. There are two means by which to achieve it. Decrease emissions AND Sequester Carbon.
The reason why you are unhappy is because you are focusing on what you do not have rather than on what you have right now.
What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. Almost every negative emotion you experience is the direct outcome of an attachment.
You must choose between your attachment and happiness. You cannot have both.
The language became more politically correct, but the globalizing goals of cultural uniformity, economic compliance, and homogenized identities remained the same.
Kinship-Mind Story-Mind Dreaming-Mind Ancestor-Mind Pattern-Mind
Respect, Connect, Reflect, Direct.
Improbable things happen a lot. Aristotle, as usual, was here first: despite lacking any formal notion of probability, he was able to understand that it is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable.
Logic forms a narrow channel through which intuition flows with vastly augmented force.
It must strike anyone as a topsy-turvy method to start the cure of natural diseases by the production of artificial; and the principle of vicarious suffering can surely only hold good ethically by voluntary self-sacrifice.
There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
What is respected by some people may not be respected by others. It is possible to respect one person and not respect another, but it is not possible to revere one person without revering every person.
Authentic Empowerment — the alignment of the personality with the soul
Dopamine isn’t the pleasure molecule, after all. It’s the anticipation molecule. To enjoy the things we have, as opposed to the things that are only possible, our brains must transition from future-oriented dopamine to present-oriented chemicals, a collection of neurotransmitters we call the Here and Now molecules, or the H&Ns.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. —E. B. White
Keep in mind is that the distortion of statistical data and its manipulation to an end are not always the work of professional statisticians. What comes full of virtue from the statistician’s desk may find itself twisted, exaggerated, oversimplified, and distorted-through-selection by salesman, public-relations expert, journalist, or advertising copywriter.
WHO says so? HOW does he/she know?
WHAT's missing? Did someone change SUBJECT?
Does it make SENSE?
For the children, time moves too slowly already. They rush from moment to moment, anxious for birthdays and new years, barely able to wait for the rest of their lives. The elderly desperately wish to halt time, but are much too slow and fatigued to entrap any bird. For the elderly, time darts by much too quickly.
Our mental, emotional, and spiritual health is both created and treated by the culture we live in. Ours is dominated by the medical paradigm which, in its diagnostic handling of mental health issues, teaches us to grow up afraid of any “abnormal” experiences.
There is a problem with a default medical model, a tendency to reductionism and an over-eagerness to reach for the prescription pad.
5 LifeForces are:
NUTRITION, HYDRATION, OXYGENATION,
ALKALIZATION, DETOXIFICATION
The key thing to remember, each one you get right works to support the other four. The opposite is also true: if we fail to maintain one of the life forces, it drags down the others, setting off a cascade of failures that can be seriously damaging over time.
People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. They sell us WHAT they do, but we buy WHY they do it.
When WHY, HOW, and WHAT are in balance, authenticity is achieved and the buyer feels fulfilled. When they are out of balance, stress or uncertainty exists. When that happens, the decisions we make will also be out of balance. Without WHY, the buyer is easily motivated by aspiration or fear.
For fifty thousand years, our ancestors organized their daily schedules around their inner clocks.
4 Chronotypes:
Dolphins
Lions
Bears
Wolves
Friendship and loyalty had trumped self-interest. This is exactly the dilemma that most of us face every day: Do we help our friends or help ourselves? And what are the consequences? Will we look dumb if we help others? Will we look mean if we do not? Is it possible to be nice and survive? And how can we possibly make these decisions when we have many friends in a dancing pattern of shifting alliances and interests?
Understanding why we’ve limited ourselves liberates a new energy in us, which we can draw on to propel us to new heights of abundance, love, and creativity. Once you understand that you’re where time comes from, you have the power to make as much of it as you want.
1. observations
2. feelings
3. needs
4. requests
We can replace language that implies lack of choice with language that acknowledges choice. We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.
The three levels of telling the truth are: revealing the facts; honestly expressing current feelings and thoughts; and, finally, exposing the fiction you have devised to represent yourself and your history.
You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel your emotions. You are not your body; you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears.
You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.
In the world of success, things aren’t equal. A small amount of causes creates most of the results. Just the right input creates most of the output. Selected effort creates almost all of the rewards. Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That’s it. That’s all the discipline you need.
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
If you run a company, you will experience overwhelming psychological pressure to be overly positive. Stand up to the pressure, face your fear, and tell it like it is.
This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behavior is useless. But knowledge that changes behavior quickly loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.
This isn’t a comic book or sci-fi movie; this is your LIFE! Changing your brain is something you’re doing every day. Now it’s time to direct the process deliberately in a way that improves your life.
“Phenomenological Reporting” STER:
Selflessness, Timelessness, Effortlessness, Richness.
Norepinephrine and dopamine typically underpin “romantic love,” endorphins and oxytocin link mother to child and friend to friend, anandamide and serotonin deepen feelings of trust, openness, and intimacy. Flowing through groups at once, you get tighter bonds and heightened cooperation.
"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."
We overcome the lower laws, by applying still higher ones and in this way only. Use Law against Laws!
Could the universe literally be teeming with consciousness flickering in and out, overlapping, combining, separating, flowing, in ways we can’t quite imagine—depending on the laws of physics in a way we don’t yet understand?
The mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Keeping your career in permanent beta forces you to acknowledge that you have bugs, that there’s new development to do on yourself, that you will need to adapt and evolve.
The warrior knows that peace does not come from control but from relinquishing control. Inner peace does not come by accident, nor by desire. Inner peace is a journey toward self-mastery. The war to end all wars is the battle for the human heart.
Energy follows thought. Fighting for peace is like making love for virginity. Peace is attained when we are at peace in consciousness. Saying, “I don’t know” only breeds “not knowing.” Choosing to know brings knowing.
You align with the highest outcome and let yourself be guided to the right actions at the right time. And sometimes with a specific problem, the correct route is simply to wait. You’ll know when a door opens. If you trust that all needs will be answered, you’ll never have to convince anyone, change their mind, or prove your worth.
The best conditions for thinking, if you really stop and notice, are not tense. They are gentle. They are quiet. They are unrushed. They are stimulating but not competitive. They are encouraging. They are paradoxically both rigorous and nimble.
We avoid negative emotions not because we’re too dumb to know better, but for four basic—and very intuitive—reasons:
1. They are unpleasant.
2. They represent getting stuck in a rut.
3. They are associated with a loss of personal control.
4. They are perceived (correctly!) as having social costs.
The primary system of communication in the body is not chemical reaction, but quantum frequency and subatomic energetic charge. There’s a physical component to the joy that people experience when helping others, which psychologists refer to as a “helper’s high.”
Stop thinking in terms of a year; instead focus on shorter time frames.
Accountability, commitment, and greatness in the moment are the foundation.
1. Vision 2. Planning 3. Process Control 4. Measurement 5. Time Use make you great!
When you tilt toward the good, you’re not denying or resisting the bad. You’re simply acknowledging,