You want the perfect partner, you are waiting to find that perfect person and not willing to settle for less. Or, you give in to accept flaws that you know are big problems because you are tired of being alone. Both are big mistakes and lead to...
A Personal Invitation from David Samuel. There comes a time in many people's lives when they begin asking questions such as: What's the point of life? Why do I feel as though I don't truly belong here? Am I more than what I appear to be? We rea...
The difference between being conscious and having a conscience is what separates the few from the many who are just animals even if they appear to be humans. Every animal is conscious, meaning, they are aware of their existence, they are interac...
It may not be possible to directly “find” God—or whatever you consider the original source of all things—because something truly infinite is beyond the capacity of the human mind to fully comprehend or experience. Short of a miracle, our intellect...
When your mind is taken by anything from what you are doing, when it drifts off or your attention is distracted to something else, the first thing you need to understand in being able to master your mind is: what is your mind going to, and then, w...
People will never change if they think they are alright. This is simply logical, why put in effort to fix what is not broken. We must see and realise that it is NOT alright to accept anything and everything. To accept mediocrity and negativity neg...
What I Do. My work is to help people find peace, clarity, and freedom from unnecessary suffering. I do not do this through belief, advice, or motivation. I do it by showing you the cause of your suffering — so you can see it for yourself and re...
Around the world, every child is taught by their parents, from their earliest years, to lie. They just call it pretending.
From that came Yin and Yang or male and female or whatever you want to call the two opposing forces of positive and negative energy, not as in good and bad, but just opposing forces like on a magnet. Why and how these came to be, we will never kno...
In life, you cannot always get what you want in the way you want to get it. Sometimes, to get what you want, you have to do what it takes to get it the way it needs to be done.
The difference between a teacher and student is not that the teacher has read books or taken courses and speaks eloquently about them, but because he himself has tripped and fallen along his path. The teacher has the scars just like everybody else...
Make every kiss as if it’s your first. Eat every meal as if it’s your last. Make love every time as if you are the only ones you both have ever known. These three things will make every meal more delicious and love grow always deeper.
They say you can’t, but of course you can. They say you can, but of course you can’t. They say you have no choice, but you always do. They say you have choice, but in reality you don’t. You can choose not to drink water, but you have no choice...
List every item that you will spend money on per year, or month. Some things are monthly expenses like rent or mortgage or food, other things are not every month, like flights, hotels, etc. You must get an annual cost of living, so determine each...
In over 3 decades that I have worked with thousands of people in every continent - even on a ship in Antarctica - and culture, I can say that no matter what the issues a person has, be that financial, relationship, personal, spiritual, there is on...
We can learn about ourselves by studying nature and science Water on the pavement does not get absorbed but when the sun shines on it, that water evaporates and then joins back to the air. The air has no country, land or ocean as its home, it is...
We are God imprisoned in a human body/mind/ego/personality We are made to forget and ignore the reality of what we are, which is God, totally impersonal without ego or concern, it simply is energy that makes things happen, as electricity itself d...
The human is just a farmed animal, like a cocoon waiting for the caterpillar to transform, or rather the silkworm. The silkworm makes a cocoon for it to turn into a moth but the cocoon is harvested before it matures to take the silk thread for us...
Why do good people always get hurt. The first question is, are the 'good' people sincerely good? Yes they do good things, but is it sincerely to be good and do good things for the sake of doing good? The person who donates a large amount of mon...
Where Humanity Is Headed, A Great Movie Plot, But It Is Coming With the new robot called 'Iron' from Xpeng, google 'Video of Xpeng Iron' it's so feminine, beautiful, sexy, if it were fitted with a fully functioning vagina that would satisfy a man...
What If After releasing all desires and attachments and progressing to a state of emotional freedom, then the last thread holding us back is going to be the 'what if'. 'What if' I spoke to that person, 'what if' I did that investment, 'what if' ...
There are just too many things in the world these days that are under the guise of being good for you, protecting you, helping you, etc. and they are mostly counter productive, so I just have to say what I think from an objective point of view. I...
To Sin Is Not A Sin, In ANY religion. This article was researched and written by my brother, Michael Samuel, a brilliant scholar who studied many ancient teachings and religions. I took this from our conversations because I feel it would be benef...
To be happy, we need to get something and give something. When they say, you should be happy on your own, you should not need someone else to make you happy, they ignore reality. If you are starving, it is something from outside, food, would mak...
The Original God Does Not Care, But We Should The consistency in virtually all religions and mystical teachings puts us in a position of facing a reality that we cannot deny. What we are and why we are here. I have written about this several time...
Self Or No Self Buddha said we do not have a self that is continuous or lasting, but we do have a self. That is confusing. He said that the Sankharas continue, and that is what our self is. Sankharas, karma, thoughts, feelings, fears, desires, ...
Self-Esteem The core of self-esteem is understanding the difference between hardware and software. Is it a bug in the software or the machine. When you do something wrong or stupid, remember that it is not about you, but you using the informati...
Resistance Causes Stress If you are driving and someone is pushing very close to your back, that is because you are irritating them, so they will irritate you. They want to go, they do NOT want to push you, they just want to go and you are holdi...
The reason for creation and the creation of the human being, truth or lie According to Judaeo-Christian/Muslim traditions, the Abrahamic traditions, God was a hidden treasure, and because all there was was God, God wanted to be known, so he cre...
Nietzsche, it's good to lose Nietzsche wrote much against the quest for happiness as the ultimate goal. Today we are obsessed with happiness, with being on valium for as long as possible. Some of what he writes is: The superior man "exploi...
A Meditation On What You Really Are; A Means Of Developing True Connection Everything is in your mind, meaning, it's either an imagination or by using your mind, you can focus your thoughts to understand something. Everything begins in our mind w...
As example, the Kabbalah tree of life, all the angels, all the gods, how do I know that[']{dir="rtl"}s true? Where did this information come from? Was it people who experienced it and then wrote it down? Was it information that magicall...
The Buddha advised his son Rahula: "Make (Nibbida) disgust strong in you" (Sutta Nipata, v.340). My brother Michael, a great scholar, did philological research into the Pali word for disgust: ["]{dir="rtl"}Nibbida&quo...
If you believe that "it's all good, everything is good" and that whatever is good for a person is the right thing for them to do, I challenge you to consider this. No, it is NOT 'all good'. There is definitely a good and a bad choice, a...
God Is Evil because God is One Everything comes from God Therefore everything is One, and there is no difference or separation between all things. Good and Evil are One "God has made this one opposite that one" Wisdom is a defence, ...
Finding your identity There is so much pressure and encouragement to find your personal identity. Keep your identity. Don't lose your identity but your identity is preventing you from finding your true self. Your human identity is the barrier be...
Emotional pain and suffering is very easy to eliminate because it's essentially not real. You must test this information and prove it to yourself in under one minute. You must do the proving yourself with this very simple exercise otherwise if it...
It is not possible to find God, or whatever you consider as the original source of all things, because something of that infinite nature is inconceivable for a human mind to directly experience or understand, other than by a miracle, and I persona...
As Above, So Below. We can understand the mind which is spiritual in nature, by understanding the world in scientific nature. The mind is material, as water particles are in the air. Material, but so tiny we cannot see them. We learn to effect ...
Business ethics of how a company should be run.. To do the best we can for the simple and pure sake of doing the best we can rather than just for profit. We set the standard of how business should be run, it's reason for being: To serve the cli...
Being A Cloud instead of a Mountain is only the first step in the process to enlightenment. Once being fully and truly a cloud, then the Cloud must evaporate so the cloud is no more. The spark returns to the source, because even a cloud has a per...
Attaining Enlightenment Attaining enlightenment, or any level of spiritual awakening can be a very confusing and contradictory path, which is actually very simple, if you can understand the path is not a path, the way is not a way, but you see it...
Anger, Stress, Frustration Is True Power When you get really frustrated or stressed, you can feel it building up inside you like a nuclear bomb already exploded and you just need to let that energy out, that is actual power. It is born from anger...
God, gods, Humans Un-created God, (the original Beginningless beginning) Created gods Created humans (part mortal, part immortal) Humans do not normally have self-will. This must be developed. Humans are separated from God because of their la...
In our previous article; You Control Your Destiny, and the article before that; Seven Fences That Bind And Separate Us, we spoke about the limitations and negative qualities we need to overcome in order to simply be a better person, and have a bet...
As all the organs and limbs form your body, and your body, your life, you, are a whole unit built by parts, so is Destiny a whole unit built by the parts which are the Seven Powers which also control our life. Unhealthy Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Lazi...
Written during the covid lockdown. We are going to come out of this lockdown with a high amount of poverty, unemployment, bankruptcies, financial, mental and emotional destruction. What matters now more than ever, is a loving and sincere relatio...
Everyone wants a wonderful partner, of course, who would pray to God to send them a selfish asshole or bitch. The problem is, are you actually worthy of the partner you want? I saw this article/poem about what she deserves in a man. https://www....
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This may sound cold, but I want to point out the possibilities, based on the idea that Nature is actually conscious and determined to find balance for the planet. This article proposes the concept that Nature is a conscious being of some sort, it...
There are probably going to be a lot of divorces coming from this time of being forced to stay at home, 24/7 together, unless we understand that we are all sick, mentally and emotionally, due to the situation. We must all perceive this as a perio...
Of all the concepts I have created to help people overcome feeling emotional pain stemming from manipulations by the people you love or have to deal with, this has been the most widely praised. If a plane flies into a mountain, everyone dies and ...
Is the global fear and panic justified? Is the press presenting an honest report of the situation? On March 6, CNBC news was speaking about the Coronavirus cases and briefly mentioned; ‘…there are over 100,000 cases. 65,000 have been fully cured ...
Communication is one of the most important aspects to a healthy relationship, however the ‘Silent Treatment’ is something that people do without considering the destructive results. Let’s examine what happens when one is ignored. Everyone wants ...
Let’s look at one of the biggest turnoffs or red flags when we're dating. When we say something without meaning to be rude or nasty, if everything is going great but we say something that changes the mood because the other person gets upset with ...
Reacting emotionally, even to a minor degree, being sensitive to what somebody says and getting upset because you didn't like it, or you felt insulted, has a profound effect on the other person. You may be correct that what they said was inapprop...
Telling other people what to do, even for the simplest things. The reason that some intelligent people with a lot of worldly experience or those who are highly educated are often so unpleasant to be with, is that they are ‘know it all”. They kno...
This article will continue from the previous one entitled, Becoming An Exceptional Human Being. Here, we will go into more detail about the concept of ‘evaporating the water of our personality’. Follow these instructions as if you are an alien f...
Of all the goals and aspirations in life, having achieved a great variety of extraordinary experiences myself, I have determined that there is no better goal for ones life than to become an exceptional human being. Exceptional means in all aspect...
“You remind me of this guy that I fell for (or rather felt a deep connection with) when I first got into the online dating scene..” I’ve had women tell me this, which is a quote from one woman I met on line, and have heard an almost identical com...
In our daily life, from the big goals and desires right down to the smaller things we want to have or achieve, failure is far more common than success. Why is that? The reason is, freedom to choose means that our weakest parts will win. The sayi...
When your partner is curious about something and you are being evasive, that's going to set up suspicions and doubts. It implies you may be hiding something that you've done wrong. Or, you might just like to keep some secrets or, you don't want t...
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This is a common question, and one that perplexes people throughout time. Sigmund Freud created the industry of psychotherapy to try and solve this riddle, but as we know, it is not working for everyone, or for many people at all in the process of...
When you get to know somebody and all is good, love and affection builds, a desire to be with them builds, but sometimes that fades with the chemistry and passion. Love that lasts, builds with respect and admiration for that person, for who they r...
Racism and bigotry are very common in this world unfortunately and many people have to face this sad reality. Many immigrants feel that in their new country they've lost their confidence, they feel depressed and lost. In their home country, they ...
When you go to someone for advice, be that a mentor, coach, lawyer or anyone at all, always consider the most important question before you agree to enlist them as your adviser. Why are they in their profession? You must be much more concerned w...
Destiny is like going on a hike that is a loop trail. At the start of the trail, you have to choose if you will walk the loop clockwise or counter clockwise, do you turn left or right? Your soulmate, for example of destiny, is somewhere ahead on ...
We all have morals, but of course everyones morals are different. This is not an article about right and wrong, morals and values. It is about how your mind works and what you are doing to form your own subconscious emotional reactions, i.e: crazi...
Many people have come to me with the same problem; ‘Everything seems so perfect with this new person I met, I can’t find anything wrong, so I better leave before I get hurt.’ It’s very common to not be able to figure out what that strange thing i...
First of all, we need to clarify that you cannot build positive energy because positive energy is infinite and as natural as your blood. What you can do which appears to increase the positive is to eliminate negative energy. It’s just a balance, a...
Being able to accept criticism is an excellent way to improve yourself. Normally, we will not notice our shortcomings. We have become so accustomed to some character traits which are not the best of features, that we do not realize what we do. Due...
First we must make certain assumptions that we accept as truth for the purpose of this article. You can change you opinion after you finish reading, but at least while you read, it will be beneficial. First, that we are fragmented beings and not ...
There are two ways a human can communicate, with the mind and the intellect or the heart and feelings. The mind is very dangerous because it works with opinions and assumptions. The function of interpretation is very flawed because we think we kn...
“I never learn from my mistakes.” A sad truth that this article will explain why we continually make the same mistakes again and again. We actually do learn from our mistakes, but we learn bad habits. In every event, we are accumulating knowledge...
The reason that heartbreak is so strong and hard to get over is that the pain is not caused by what you think. Because of this mistaken source, the pain is kept alive longer than is necessary since it is found, understood and resolved. The loss o...
Making a clear and definite commitment is the secret to making the Universe deliver your goals, whatever they may be. The decision to achieve your goal, making your plans, following all the instructions you have read and heard is NOT enough. A de...
Love touches and if felt in what we call our soul. There is nothing religious or mystical about it, it is a real thing. You can call it your heart, but it is more than that. Real love enchants and enlivens every cell in our body, give energy, joy ...
This article is to explore and test the concept of altering the personality through changes of habitual patterns for the purpose of attaining emotional freedom from fears and inhibitions, resulting in healthy self-esteem. This is the first articl...
September 8, 2017. Interpersonal Communication and Customer Relations at Trump International Hotel and Tower, Panama City. David will be presenting a one hour event in dealing with difficult situations in the workplace at the Trump Hotel in Panam...
Good manners are not the most common quality, yet have always been stressed as important. I would like to explore a far more valuable reason to have impeccable manners other than just to look good to others. Good manners are a show of respect to ...
Why We Justify And Dispute Some people often dispute anything that appears even slightly as a criticism or negative comment towards them. They justify and argue that it is not true, or they have excuses why this was an exception but, they never n...
Faith Is An Emotional Power That Makes A Human Into A Super Human Let us begin with making it clear that we are not speaking of faith in a religious sense, but rather as a mental force used by all humans. This article is an objective exploration ...
Create Lions Rather Than Sheep
Emotional Independence Don’t just think who you are, know who you are. Become Emotionally Independent.. The goal of personal development is personal freedom. Freedom from your emotions, moods, reactions to success or failure and most importantly...
Finding Loving Companionship 'You can't fix something until you know it's broken'. And before one can fix it, one must know why, where and how it broke in order to fix it, or determine if it needs to be discarded and acquire a replacement.. One'...
Anger can be either destructive or constructive, depending on whether it is at or for something. Anger at is destructive and serves no useful purpose. It is the emotion we express toward drivers who cut us off, for example. This type of anger robs...
Strive to have a reputation of being impeccable in everything you do.. It may sound impossible but it is a good goal and at least trying will be better than never even thinking about it..
Thinking of the past, regrets or things people did that upset you, will just keep upsetting you. Negative thoughts make the brain secrete chemicals which are destructive to the body, like acid burning away your heart or stomach.. Just remember th...
Remember this in relation to anything that you find is earth shatteringly important, and you will free yourself from so much pain and frustration and have far less arguments.. Yes, there are some things which are very important, but this ethic is...
Reflect on your actions of the day without regret or self indulgence. Merely reflect about your actions objectively.. What did I do well today?. . What did I do that I should not have done?. . What didn’t I do that I should have done?. ...
This is not a good world where the just triumph or the good get what they deserve. Accept the reality that everything is by chance and not because you did something good that you should get rewarded. Be happy when you do, but do not get disappoint...
There is really only one book one must read, and that book is placed in your heart. The right way to live is always clear if you subjugate your self-centred ego. Fixating on anything can be very narrow minded and lead to following rules without co...
The truth is that everything just happens, good and bad, just happens. You can make something good out of everything that happens if you take control and find a way by seeing it objectively. The tree will fall, its up to you where you pitch your t...
Other than the hell you live each day in regrets. Live in a way that you have nothing to regret and you will never live in hell.. Exercises. Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say. Pay attention to your words, noticing whether or not they are ...
There is only one thing, humanity. When all these differences have been released, we will have harmony on earth. Respect and be fair to others' opinions and, religions, races, nationalities, cultures or social classes, let them be who they want to...
Be objective and open minded. Although you think something is wrong, another person may see it very differently.. Allow them to have their opinion and only then do you have a right to have your own. Assume your opinion is wrong, and you may learn...
Because the only thing we all want is to be loved. Be kind to animals and people especially those less fortunate than yourself, that's the best way to lift them up; never look down on anyone; be humble.. Exercises. Show Appreciation For Everythi...
Stop and reflect if you really hate it, is it really that bad? Will it really kill you? You will find that hating something is just a learnt habitual reaction and things are never as bad as you see them to be.. Exercises. Learn From Stereotypes....
Attacking words are just a knife put on the table. You must pick it up and stab yourself for those words to hurt you otherwise they are as powerless as if spoken in an unknown language.. You give the words power and thus you have the choice to le...
Always do the best you can do at any task for the sake of simply doing the best you can rather than for acknowledgment. Do not be concerned about receiving credit or recognition for what you do.. Just do your best, then feel content with the role...
Because that means you are playing God. To make restrictions on anyone removes their free will and you would not want anyone to remove your free will. Rather, you should become resilient.. Of course this is within reason. Controlling or making re...
Nobody wants to hear you talk all the time. Be attentive to listen more, allowing other people the pleasure of speaking and hold yourself back.. Do not over talk or interrupt the person speaking. There is no need for you to add to everything anyo...
Many times someone will be talking about something that you know they are wrong and you know better. If it is directions they are giving someone and that is wrong, then speak up. But if what they are saying really is not going to change anything i...
Speak little. Be precise and concise, using words as a limited resource.. Eat little. Do not let food be your god; everything in moderation.. Sleep little. Over sleeping can make you more tired and that extra half hour a day sleeping adds up to ...
Exercise and eat well; health is greater than wealth; make time to rest your mind, body and soul; stress and pent up frustration will lead to ill health, and that is usually for something which in the long term is irrelevant.. Living healthy requ...
Art, music, a beautiful garden or a clean, well presented house or office, are all things that other people see, and if done beautifully, will make them feel good just to look at it.. Likewise, a smile is more beautiful than a frown. Your sad or ...
Do not impose your rules in someone else's home. If you are a guest, a visitor in someone's home or another country, you must follow their rules and not impose or insist on your own..
Selecting only the words to prove your point is really just your ego refusing to admit your mistakes and perpetuating your illusions about anything and everything. There is no way your mind can ever rest when it knows that it has twisted the truth...
That is clear, but be sure to do it sincerely and admit it to yourself..
This is done to raise yourself by lowering others. Rather, just do your best for the sake of doing the best that can be done. Show instead of talk..
Speaking out of vengeance just to hurt someone in some way means you have to embellish the truth and create a story that is exaggerated which you must believe yourself. Thus it perpetuates your living in illusions and self-created lies. You cannot...
Give back for everything you receive in some way. Do not wait to be asked for something in return. Just give automatically, and not just offer in hope they say, "it’s ok".. Be grateful and respect those who are kind to you; similarly, b...
One attains any quality by eliminating its opposite quality. All things have a balancing opposite in order for them to exist. Hot and cold, soft and hard, anger and love, guilt and innocence, fear and confidence all only exist because of their opp...
Do not put yourself first and selfishly think always; 'What will I get if I do this'. Rather think; 'What will be the benefit to others if I do, or do not do, this.' When all your actions only consider your personal benefit, and if you cannot see ...
If something will not be a detriment to your life, either at the moment or in the long term future, just do it immediately.. Don't let your ego prevent you from being present and simply a nice person, even if that means getting someone way below ...
You do not know everything. Be open minded and learn at all times.. Adapt rather than resist the things your partner and friends want, as well to nature and the weather.. The one who adapts survives, the one who resists gets broken.. Exercises....
Allow for everyone to be human and scared. It's not always about you or against you personally. Sometimes you just happen to be in the way, the wrong place at the wrong time.. Let life flow and flow with it, the good and the bad. Just deal with w...
Acknowledge objectively what other people think of you; if they hate you or like you or whatever their thoughts are about you.. Find the true cause of their opinion and you will know what to change in yourself.. If you examine yourself objective...
Time is the most precious of all commodities. Of all things in the universe, only time is the one thing that no matter where we look, once lost, can never be found. Ironically, time is the one thing we squander the easiest.. Exercises. Keep Your...
Each moment is a new beginning for what comes next. Hence, be careful what you say and do each moment because that will determine what comes next and, in the long term future.. Live with this awareness of the repercussions of all your words and a...
A person's true value is calculated by the degree to which they keep their word. If you say you will do something, you must do it.. In business, if you quote a price, you must honour it even if you end up losing money.. If you say you will be so...
Inspiring words and thoughts are uplifting, but only for a short time until one forgets them. It is important to have an exercise specifically related to that good thought to focus on for a week or month, to imprint the value into one's personali...
Respect is shown in many ways. It basically boils down to making someone else wait or suffer in some way just so you can have your way.. Respect other people's time. Be punctual, on time or early for appointments. Do what you have promised to do ...
This is really simple. Don’t steal, kill, lie, abuse, destroy or give even an intentional jaded remark or dirty look etc.. There is no absolution by praying to a deity or confessing your sins. That will not make the one you harmed any better off,...
First Do not ask a six year old to stop behaving like a six year old. Second Do not equate age with a proportionate amount of maturity and wisdom. Third Accept that common sense is the most rare thing to find in a human being.
I am so frustrated by the medical profession that puts eagles in a cage with tortoises and tells them they need to be like tortoises. Stop flying high and fast and get down to earth and crawl in hyper slow motion like everyone else, then you will ...
Stress is a learnt weakness, it is not natural. It is natural to be able to handle everything calmly. How can we overcome this habitual stressful reaction? We must put in effort to feel stress. It is fully self-created and self-maintained. St...
A wild animal doesn't mate well in captivity. There is no room for its spirit to roam free so it will not have the motivation to reproduce in its small cage. Then it takes viagra to deliver what nature moves it to want. Using this analogy, see ho...
Ask yourself this question; 'If you were given a choice, would you choose to have $10 million but not be entirely happy or, to be incredibly happy all the time.' Another question is; 'Would you rather fit in to society and be accepted as normal b...
So many people are confused as to why they do not get all of their goals. Sometimes they succeed at some goals but not others. This article will explain why that is. Movement is always two fold, you move towards something and away from something ...
This article is about the common frustration of facing someone who is doing something you consider very wrong, either to you or in general. When faced with a situation in which someone is cheating or hurting you, and you feel a tremendous injusti...
In the Jewish religion, there are many rules and religious restrictions. One is that on the Sabbath, you are not allowed to carry anything outside of your house, even a thread in your pocket is not allowed. This sounds very strange, as this restr...
For people who think that being spiritual means you should not care about money or material things, there is something to bear in mind if you are using the justification that Buddha and spiritual people had nothing. In fact, they were effectively ...
A New Way to Live based on Ethics. A life of simply trying each day to be a good human being based on Ethics, making you proud to be you. Goals of Ethicalism. To be master of one's own life.. To increase your motivation.. To be immune from ...
I think this world may be something like a maze and we are the rats in the maze. What we need to do is find our way out of the maze and sometimes we get a little tired of hitting dead ends and that's what puts us in a state of depression or frustr...
Nothing can happen to you in any way without you participating in some form, even if that means you chose to drive to the store and had a car accident; you were involved in some way.. Perhaps you were not paying enough attention or there was an i...
Many Americans think that America has a duty to basically police the world. This post may sound politically incorrect and many people are going to oppose my view, however i suggest you read it through and see the principle I am trying to make. Yo...
A Monologue Is One Person Talking To Themselves. A Heated Dialogue Is Two People, Talking To Themselves It is selfish to try to make someone understand what you want to say, and selfless to understand what the other person is saying, or hearing....
Choose your goal, whatever you want, then think about what do you need to have or be or change in order to get what you want. What is the step before or requirement to getting your goal, and the step before that, etc. Personally, I want to be en...
Humility practices are found in many religions and mystical traditions. This one is from the Cabalistic tradition: Empty your heart and mind of all your mundane preoccupations and then work to nullify all your negative traits, one after the oth...
At some times, perhaps many times in our life, we all feel that God or some demon is out to get us. I certainly have been thoroughly convinced of this myself very often for many decades. I have also figured out that anyone who thinks or says; ‘wh...
This article is about a very good example how an essential truth of life can be imprisoning or liberating. If you can take this article for the lesson it delivers, and take it as a principle to apply to all things in life, to be able to see everyt...
The first step in correcting a defect is that you must know the cause of the defect, its reason for existence, why it was developed. Everything exists for a reason or purpose. It does not matter if it is a useful or productive purpose in your opin...
The saying; ‘every coin has two sides’, is used as a positive encouragement but in fact enforces a negative and limited view. It ignores the key to happiness, creativity, objectivity and finding the solution to all problems and conflicts, the thir...
In the parable of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and thus being evicted from the garden, we find an interesting concept to explain why our world is so materialistic as well as how to master our mind and increase the...
The negative quality of revenge must not be underestimated for its self destructive effects and how to avoid that. Bitterness in you makes you want to stick a knife in the other person because you do not like what they did. This is obviously bad ...
Find the root cause of our personality flaws for the purpose of self-improvement and self-perfecting. One of the common flaws is lack of taking responsibility, no one wants to take responsibility for their mistakes and actions. We must think of ...
In the pursuit of personal and perpetual self-improvement let us try this analysis of the separation of 'who' you are from 'what' you are. When one is put down or negative qualities and characteristics are exposed, the normal human reaction is to...
If you want to change the way you think and live, you have to see the process of your thoughts, how you think, what makes you have certain thoughts, what is behind your thoughts and feelings, then when you find that, only then do you have the pote...
It all begins with your attitude, however attitude is not necessarily what you think it is, so please read on. You must of course believe that you have something of quality to offer, something of value that you can provide to the work or person y...
The problems of the rich are more difficult than the problems of the poor because they have already tried and found the emptiness in the solutions that the poor still hope can bring them happiness. The point is to say that although money does sol...
I am forming a MasterMind group in Penang. If anyone would like to join a small group (max 10 people) to discover what a carefully selected group of jointly focused minds can achieve is invited to inquire. We will discuss the focus of the group w...
Everything in life is a dichotomy, we live in a world of opposites; hot/cold, hard/soft, cruel/gentle, everything must have its opposite in order for it to exist, this is nature. The topic of this article is the idea of finding happiness in self-...
We all know that we like friends and companionship etc, but rarely does anyone question WHY we like or need certain things. We are, a scientifically accepted fact, an electro chemical organism. Which means we are made up physically of a bunch of ...
Why people cannot get motivated or why people cannot find anything to do is a common question. I think one reason for some people is because they actually do not want to have anything they love and enjoy to do that they can become attached to. Th...
I have written often about motivation, and having talked to many people, especially young people, who have so many ideas, but they never actually do anything. They are called ADD or lazy or not focused. I have found the ultimate reason is the att...
Sincerity and selflessness are inseparable, where there is one, there is the other, and where one is not, neither is the other. One of our students asked a very good question; 'how can I become sincere.' She knows that she does things to show gra...
Poor people think they can do what they want, but that is not true. They are limited by their poverty. Rich people can choose to do what they want. For example, poor people have to travel by public bus. Rich people can go in a car or on a jet, or...
You lose motivation when you feel hopeless because nothing is working and you think you have tried everything, or you will never meet the right partner. But this is an arrogant attitude that implies you already know everything or every one of the...
The mistake people make when going to workshops and courses is that they think they can learn something, but normally people find that they forget what they learnt very quickly. The problem is in the analogy of being a sponge to water. The water ...
This is the secret to balancing the never ending pursuit of self-improvement without having low-self esteem, self-hatred and negative emotions. Objectively speaking, the human being is quite frankly not something to be proud of. our body is very...
There is a big difference between observation and absorption of events. The concept of self observation is quite old, we have talked about it often as Gurdjieff and Ouspensky have taught, and yet as much as I teach this method of awakening, peopl...
If you have constant remembrance and express thoughts of appreciation and gratitude for everything you received, there is very little room in your heart and mind for self-pity and negative emotions because it is always filled with love and gratitu...
Devotion and commitment are the keys to happiness because that equates to submission. You submit to what you are committed and devoted to. Submission is the opposite of resistance. Submission is the opposite of dissatisfaction. As Buddha said; ...
Faith is the secret ingredient, that magic key that gives us the power to accomplish all things. Faith gives us the power to do the things we think are impossible or would kill us yet faith gives us the strength to do those things and survive and...
It is very important to remove all negative emotions, and that means also remove all negative memories, if you want a peaceful life. People rarely consider how a negative memory from long ago can effect and destroy their energy for the rest of th...
The little idiosyncrasies and things that bother you about your partner is actually a fixed opinion and ego centred way you want it done, wanting it your way. Letting those things go and accepting everyone, with their little issues, makes you a b...
Our heart must have something to love or care about, that is just part of being human. If we do not have anyone to love, we will look for someone or something, a pet or good cause, so there is something for our heart to feed on. This is the caus...
There are many spiritual schools and many people who follow their paths and try to improve themselves, but so few make any significant progress. This is the topic I would like to discuss. Having spent most my life in the pursuit of perfecting my ...
Everything is relative. Understanding each other depends on the principle of relativity. What is right or wrong, rich or poor, feeling good or bad, it is all relative. But there are other dimensions to relativity. Age, social class, country, cul...
When I was younger I wanted, as many people do, to be more spiritual, I wanted to devote my life to a spiritual path. Even while I was in business I spent about six hours a day on various practices. Meditation, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, studies of ancien...
In life, for every opinion that is completely valid, there is always an opposite opinion that is equally valid. Knowing and accepting that, we can always be free of conflict. Burping. In Asia burping is not even noticed, people burp out loud at ...
If you find you have perpetual chain of problems in your life, it may be because you need to have problems, not just because you have bad luck. Self Pity is probably the most common negative emotion that everyone has. Everyone has it to some degr...
Everything in life has a cost. The more valuable a thing, the higher the cost. The type of currency to pay for each thing differs depending on what it is you want to acquire. It could be time, money, sacrifice or effort of some sort. Determine wh...
When someone is yelling at you, for any reason, if you can see the truth that they are full of pain and problems, everyone is, then you will not take it personally and get yourself upset and stressed. It will also help you discover who you really...
Try this exercise. Notice how when someone tells you something or you see something, how quickly your mind thinks it understands it. That is the problem. We must catch that reaction, stop it and remember that we can never know the true depth of w...
We all know that we like friends and companionship etc, but rarely does anyone question WHY we like or need certain things. We are an electro chemical organism. Which means we are made up physically of a bunch of chemicals which hold an electric ...
There will always be people better, smarter, richer than you, and there will be many more poorer, sicker, lonelier and more unhappy than you. What would a staircase be if there were no steps in the middle? Strive to improve yourself and at the s...
The first step is to know what you are talking about. Not only in this question, but I mean that in every moment of life, on any subject. If you are discussing God, heaven and hell literally, but there is no way we can understand these things as ...
Most negative emotions, such as a depressing thought, internal conflict, arguments, feeling hopeless, etc. all these things are due to a lack of understanding. You may think you understand, and that is why you see a thing as hopeless or negative ...
A monologue is basically one person talking to themselves. A dialogue is often two people, talking to themselves. If you are having a disagreement to any degree, it is because you are taking the discussion or topic of what the other person is say...
Be it personal development, spiritual or even improving the material and financial aspect of your life, this article speaks to every way a person would want to be better at anything they seek. In the search for a deeper understanding of life and ...
If you want to be emotionally free, you must accept certain facts about being human. **One:**A human being needs companionship above all else, which includes physical contact. **Two:**You do not know the truth about yourself. You will imagine an...
If you look at your successes and failures, day to day, forgetting little things, not remembering where you put something, not seeing something right in front of you, little accidents, etc. those errors are not erased by anything you do well. They...
Many people speak of how we should all be happy, it is so easy, just be happy, don’t worry. Yet many people find happiness very elusive. Why is it so difficult to find happiness if it is truly our natural birthright? If it were true that it is so ...
David was interviewed on KCLau.com, the largest Malaysian financial advice website.
Probably one of the most effective things you can do to quickly and profoundly alter your being and character is to catch yourself when you take anything to be about you. When you take something personally, stop and try to see it as something tha...
Change what you are today, or what you were when you first realized that you are not as perfect as you could be, into someone better tomorrow. This is a really worthwhile point and reason for life. So many people cannot find a point to life, seei...
Steps Four to Six of The Nine Principles Of Success video series are now on line. Please visit the videos page, Beyond Success section to view them. The remainder of the series will be posted next week.
I may not be a follower of any religion, but I believe there is wisdom in many teachings, if we use our mind to find it. In this article, we will explore a real life example of how this saying leads to happiness or depression. The ‘devil’ is depr...
If we always did the best we could do, we would certainly excel and be recognized for excellent service and attitude, but we do not. There is always something that holds us back from giving fully and that can be a variety of reasons. The most pow...
I would like to apologize for not having posted any articles in a while. The Entrepreneurmonk.com web site is being redesigned and should be ready soon. The first new design, the one you would see now, is not quite right so we are working on a ne...
The illusive object of desire for everyone despite all the other desires that are expected to bring us the ultimate one is, happiness. This simple article will explain a few step by step points, very simple, yet powerful enough to change your lif...
The reason why I want to fail is the same reason I want to succeed. Satori, Enlightenment, Nirvana, different names but all the same thing, the experience of enlightenment, if even for a moment. The state of total bliss and freedom, unity with a...
I had an impacted wisdom tooth pulled many years ago. The pain continued for weeks after the operation. The dentist cut me open again and looked but could not find anything. It took him cutting me open three times until he found a small piece of ...
I had a tech support issue, and their response is typical as well as comical and the cause of a lot of frustration in our world. The tech support answer was so astounding, I realized the value in showing how a person looks when they do not read em...
Opposing Polarities May Cooperate With Each Other Or They Conflict To Varying Degrees Fluidity is the answer to all confusing statements. Fluidity is the key to wisdom. This article will discuss fluidity, its meaning and use. If to you, for exam...
To me, nothing is certain so I always think in terms of trying. I will try to work in a new profession, I will try living in a new country, I will try being in a relationship, I will try to live another day a little better than the last. The ide...
The meaning of Eastern in this article derives from a combination of the original teachings of the Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Sufism, and others as understood by me but does not mean to imply that all people in the east are this way, just the tea...
Our emotions have a powerful effect on our body, giving it all sorts of stress related illnesses. Our mind creates our emotions. What we think is happening is the beginning of our emotional responses. Emotions begin with an event that we interpre...
When anyone asks; "How are you?" I am always well. The secret to always being happy is to have nothing you want to do. This is the essence of the Buddhist teaching that all suffering is caused by desires. The more we desire, the more we ...
If you feel totally comfortable in your life, then something is wrong because it is not possible to feel perfectly and totally comfortable. The reason is simply that perfect comfort is a state that you would never leave or change and that means we...
Many people hate money because our life is controlled by it. That is valid and true, but for every negative there is a positive, and the positive side of being controlled by money is what I would like to discuss. The most important part of achiev...
Buddha is famous for the saying; “Life is suffering and desires are the cause of suffering.” I have spent my life working on eliminating desires, and of course, it is not possible for a human being to eliminate all desires. We will always have som...
I think the problem is the ego wanting to be individual. It goes back to when we are children, the ‘terrible two’s’ when a child starts to say no to everything. That is a point in our life that we develop the idea that we are separate individuals ...
***Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment,*****Buddha** There are three things which rule our lives; desires, fears of all types and, regrets for mistakes, missed opportunities and decisio...
Many people would like to be more present, awake, aware, as well as financially successful and equally importantly, have better relationships with someone who is actually ‘there’. In my years of trying to teach people how to attain these qualitie...
Not caring is an empty, dead feeling. Not being concerned is a very alive vibrant feeling that can come by keeping the awareness in the chest with no other thought, fully present. One is full and the other is empty. For this to be a full feeling,...
The concept of splitting the bill when out with your friends for a meal or coffee for example, each paying for themselves, is a terrible thing because it robs us of the joy of giving and joy of receiving. Not only the joy is lost, but there is a f...
Many people do not like change. They just don’t like it and are not sure why or cannot even begin to come up with a reason, they just don’t like change, it upsets them. In the hopes of eliminating yet one more frequently repeated negative state ...
This is a Sufi saying, that the heart is the veil to the soul. In this mystical path, our heart is where we store our feelings and opinions that have been formed in this life. It separates our lesser ego, the Nafs, from our Soul, the essence of Go...
This article is about how to increase your awareness, learning how to hold your tongue, to not say the wrong thing and, not stick your foot in your mouth. All this is achieved by removing selfish desires. You may not realize how much of your life...
Many people get the feeling that everything in life is just an empty waste of time, totally futile. So much of our time spent on empty interactions, work to make money just to pay taxes and survive, etc. is just a waste of time and effort, given t...
There are many good hearted people who just cannot seem to get ahead in life. Every time they are saving some money or moving forward, someone comes along who needs help and being soft hearted, they drain their savings to help out. Sadly the peopl...
We listen with intellect, interpreting words and identifying their meaning in the dictionary of our personal vocabulary. Deeper emotions and hidden meanings in spiritual matters must be felt, sensed in your body. Knowledge cannot always be convey...
We want to be rich so we do not have to do anything that we do not want to do, like go to work at a job we do not like or deal with the hassles of life because we cannot afford to just pay the money and be done with it. We want to live in a peace...
Have you ever been, or talked to someone who is clearly upset and when asked; “What’s wrong?” insists that nothing is wrong? The more you probe, the more they resist. There is clearly something wrong but they will not open up. You write it off as...
These nine principles are a basic outline that you can memorise and keep with you as a guide to how you have conducted your day. Review them at the end of the day to see if you have followed them and then try again tomorrow. Do what is in front...
We often confuse our emotions with what we think they are as opposed to what they really are. This misinterpretation of our feelings to the opposite will keep us limited as this process most often interprets a wise emotion or intuition as a weak e...
Is the difference between being open and closed emotionally simply being focused or preoccupied? Maybe we are just too preoccupied with the stresses and problems of life to be able to relax our mind enough and that is partially what prevents our a...
Not everyone, but many people, have a level of guilt, insecurity or self-consciousness, a general unease and discomfort around other people. This article is about the cause and thus how to release guilt and attain emotional freedom. The key is at ...
Insecurity, fear, inhibitions, lack of self-confidence and freezing up are some common plagues. Feeling great then all of a sudden feeling down, a spontaneous emotional drop in mood and energy, or any emotional swings without significant cause is ...
There is a great power in the concept of the law of attraction, which has also been expressed in terms such as ‘magnetic centre’, ‘attractive force’, ‘the power of the mind’, and many others. The danger of the modern concept of the law of attract...
Words are our main form of communication. Words have the greatest power to make us happy or sad, aggravated or elated. How can something that has no actual material reality have such a powerful effect over us emotionally and physically? Here is a ...
The most attractive is of course enlightenment, spiritual realization, self-knowledge or anything in that direction. Promise of this draws many people, and although it would be wonderful to have a large following, I will not claim to have achieved...
Many people suffer from the past of what their parents did to them, the negative events of their childhood etc. The purpose of this article is to present the reason why it is hard to release the past and end the perpetual limitations and suffering...
The beautiful eyes, the divine gift to the person who opens their heart. The clear eyes, translucent, lit from inside. Looking into those eyes is looking into infinite space without end. The beautiful light, a light that is divine, that shines b...
Apple share price dropped 10 percent today after its revenues came up short of analyst estimates and sales of its macs and iPhones were not what Wall street expected. Still, Apple sold 47.8 million iPhones, a record, and 22.9 million iPads. The co...
Many people are hindered by procrastination, and have no idea why they do it. There doesn’t seem to be any logic or reason as to the cause of putting things off, but it is almost impossible to get the simplest task done. My theory is that the pro...
Right and wrong are a matter of personal opinion, this is the definition of morals. Your morals define what is right or wrong for you. If you do things you feel are wrong, but then convince yourself it is acceptable or divert your attention from ...
The only difference between a baby and adult is the passage of time. What happens in the passage of time? The accumulation of experiences. Experiences are stored as memories. Memories keep our mind occupied with either pains, fears, regrets or, de...
Everyone knows the saying; ‘money is the root of all evil’. I believe that is only part of the truth. The whole truth is; ‘LACK of money is the root of all evil.’ If you examine all the things that make you, or anyone unhappy, how much of that co...
If I was sent here from another planet to study humans, I would be very confused by something that seems to be very common. Even the nicest people who are close friends or family, and really care, will add a negative twist to their show of gratit...
Many people are looking for a spiritual teacher, an enlightened being who can help them progress in their spiritual growth or path to enlightenment. Some jump from one teacher to another being perpetually dissatisfied, or maybe they find one teach...
We all suffer from a heart that is closed, either a little or a lot, and we spend our life trying to avoid being aware of this, but it is always there in the back of our mind. This article will take the article; “How To Find What You Really Are” a...
If you observe yourself, you will discover that all you are is an emotional feeling. It could be positive or negative, love, anger or hatred, it changes frequently, but ultimately we are nothing more than emotional feelings. Are not all your thou...
The Hymn of the Pearl is a passage from the Gnostic path that I felt is worth publishing as it fills the mind with good thoughts to contemplate. The hymn is commonly interpreted as a Gnostic view of the human condition , that we are spirits lost ...
This three minute video is a very well done transition through a collection of photos from young to old of Queen Elisabeth. Not that I have any interest in the queen, but for the sake of a wake up reminder of the passage of time that we all will ...
***“...From very young, we are taught to ask questions,*** ***so we keep asking until we find answers…”*** This is a quote from Nobel prize winner, Dan Shechtman, in response to being asked why there are such a high percentage of Jewish nobel pr...
Which path should I choose? This is a common question and one which I would like to share my 30 years of experience of study in Sufi, Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, Gnostic, Hermetica, and many others. I was born knowing there was more to life and that t...
I post articles on a few sites, one of which is http://ezinearticles.com. They give me a report of how many views each of my articles gets and the keywords that were used to find it. This has been a very interesting report. The article that was v...
I have spent a couple of months visiting my father and I have come to see some very disturbing things about not just myself, but how our personality, and thus our life, is formed and lived. As anyone who has spent enough time reflecting on their ...
For this article I will use a recent experience in New Zealand which is a very strong example. I am certain you will find other examples in any country. Although this is a very typical NZ attitude, it fits very well as an opportunity for anyones s...
Things are not often what they appear and, what they clearly are at the time, is not always what they turn out to be in the future. Often, a wonderful safe and enjoyable childhood leads to difficulties in adult life. While we grow up, our fragmen...
Being alone can be the best or the worst, it depends on if you are empty or full. To be alone and have nothing to do can be a wonderful feeling without any obligations or stresses. But if that space is empty, it soon becomes painful, so we seek a...
I have experienced too many times and have heard from so many other people about conversations that went inexplicably wrong. You may meet someone, have a conversation, even by text or email, and all of a sudden with tremendous ease and agility tha...
I saw a monument in honor of a fellow who participated in creating the first draft of the Declaration of Human Rights. He wanted to include;“You should never allow the rights of a collective society to outweigh the rights of the individual.” Tha...
With all the uproar about how the world is changing to conform with the demands of immigrant Muslim demands, I felt it was the right time to make a statement. Feel free to distribute this article as you wish. There are many examples such as creat...
The problem with a democratic system in which the government officials are elected by majority vote is that it absolutely precludes honesty and sincerity on the part of the person running for election. This is especially true during the campaign ...
The Sufi say; 'The heart is the veil to the soul'. In observing this thought for many years, it is clearly true. Our heart, that which is the centre of our feelings, has within it the scars and memories of all events, good and bad. It is the seat...
Everything in the universe works in some pattern. Everything has a logic and pattern of its own. The trick is to find the pattern of what you are studying. This could be so different than anything you can logically perceive, which makes it very d...
Self-mutilation, or other means of self-inflicted pain, physically, mentally or emotionally, are common to everyone. Everyone finds some way to inflict one form of pain or another on themselves, and we all wonder why. One young person told me tha...
The title of this article is a basic principle of Buddhist teachings. The common interpretation is that unfulfilled desires cause pain and suffering. This is very easy to understand, that desires themselves are the cause of suffering and we have t...
Life is suffering, it is filled with pain and problems. More for some than others, but the problems of life are unavoidable to everyone. Even the super rich commit suicide or get sick and die young, so we can say that there must be problems that e...
What is the right decision? What should I choose? Is black better than white? These are the type of questions that torment us daily, because both sides have good and bad effects. This article is not as much about determining how to make choices as...
Adab is the foundation stone of developing the essence of ones being such that one can grow in an opening manner to receive ever increasing wisdom using the inverted pyramid as the analogy. As the pyramid continues to grow, it gets wider and wider...
People who fight for preservation of a species, often neglect what preservation of life requires, which is in many cases, the end of another life. Humans are the only creature who can choose an alternate food source. Lions cannot become vegetaria...
Deadlines are a natural part of the universe. There is no need to get stressed and resist them. In the Kybalion, one of the Hermetic laws is; As above, so below. This is to say that within the larger, there is a smaller version of the larger. The...
Intuition is basically information about what is going to happen, which has nothing to do with what you want to happen in your life or at the moment. What blocks you from hearing the voice of perfect intuition is your ego and your desires. If you ...
Having boundaries is tantamount to not truly being open. Basically, anyone who ever says they want to set boundaries is a selfish person because those boundaries are the rules you set up on how other people have to treat and interact with you. Tha...
All things come from seeds, all plants and living beings, eggs are seeds. If every thing originates from a seed, and thoughts and emotions are things, then thoughts too, come from seeds. The proof that thoughts and emotions are real things is in...
There is no need to join a monastery or school when you have understood that being in a school is to allow you to live in a certain state of mind. The point of a school is to keep your mind focused on your awakening and so being in a school merel...
To be free of guilt and negative self attacks, we must pay our debts. Not only the monetary ones, but the ones which caused harm to someone because of your actions. When you do something or advise someone do something which causes them harm, you ...
*“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.* *If you can dream it, you can become it.”* William Arthur Ward IMAGINE combining a perfect holiday in the Caribbean with personal enrichment for Body, Mind and Spirit . IMAGINE a central point ...
Everyone knows that a coin only has two sides. But what defines a ‘side’? If the coin can stand or sit on it, then it must be a side. Heads, tails and the edge. Yes, a coin can sit on its edge, so that must be a side. To be on one of the two side...
This is an excellent exercise to attain an objective detachment to events and retain a freedom from being negatively emotionally effected. The exercise is; ***Do not say anything that will not serve a useful purpose.*** Most often, when someone...
It is not true, in my experience, that a person’s thoughts or energy can effect another person. The way they APPEAR to effect you is by your sharing the thought. You can find happiness in ending negative emotions by seeing their true source. If I...
If this were my last day alive and I was asked what I discovered in a lifetime of searching for Truth, I would have to say that the Beatles were correct, all you need is love. But life is not that simple, and in fact, if all we need is love, then...
All religious and spiritual practices ultimately serve one purpose; to reflect on who you are as a human being by discovering the true nature of your personality. The method I present to you here allows us to discover who we truly are rather than ...
This article questions of validity of reincarnation and explores a deeper meaning to the concept. Here, I shall show how the concept is true and false at the same time by exploring another level of its implications in ones pursuit of personal grow...
Feeling inferior prevents you from finding happiness and can make anyone overdo proving that they are adequate or superior rather than accept the reality that they simply are not perfect or perhaps even capable of doing the particular task. We are...
I would like to thank and congratulate Ande Schurr for achieving a monumental task. After working with you for the past 5 years, your achievements would make any teacher proud. For his 30th birthday and on the third anniversary of purchasing a $...
The ego is formed and becomes the seat of power to manipulate your life because it itself, the ego, is the consequence of circumstance and circumstance is the power that sits in the seat. The events of your life from moment to moment are the circ...
The feeling of not being loved is an imagination of the ego while it searches for happiness. You have to create the feeling of not being loved in yourself by yourself. Or more accurately, you have to imagine you are not loved, because that is simp...
Continuing on from Part 1 of this article, the removal of pain brings pleasure and happiness. When you can see that mental pain is 100% in your mind due to your resistance of the state of things as they are, you cease to believe the illusion. At t...
Here is a principle from the Kybalion that will help you change the direction of your life and find happiness. When the momentum of the swing of the pendulum in one direction runs out, it eventually swings the other way. The concept is like toss...
Why must we feel pain and suffering? That is a very good question and the answer is found in being able to see its usefulness. This article will show the reason that pain and suffering exists and how to end it by understanding its purpose for self...
One thing that you may have found through my articles is that you cannot ‘do’ anything. Everything just happens and you react by instinct or by one of the minds of the ego part of your being. Rarely if ever do you act out of the wisdom mind of you...
The fact is that you pay for everything, every breath has a cost. When you receive something, anything, you pay for it in some way. If you don’t pay now, you will pay later, or you may have paid in advance. Self development cannot happen if you de...
The cause of many mistakes and arguments is due to a lack of attention to instructions, or the conversation. This is a frustrating problem because most people are reasonably intelligent and can focus or appear to focus on a conversation well enoug...
The fragmentation of the many I’s that are part of us are to our mind the same as parasites are to our body. If you looked at one eyelash with a very high powered microscope, you would find that there are literally millions of little creatures tha...
I can tell you your block of finding happiness, but you will not understand. This is normal, and why it is the greatest stumbling block for a seeker of truth. Truth of the Universe and truth of oneself. It is that you do not understand what there...
From a spiritual point of view, in order to achieve personal growth, you must have a passionate desire for enlightenment that is completely selfless. If your passion has anything to do with you, then certainly you can succeed in your goals, but th...
As your eyes focus on one point, but your peripheral vision takes in and registers so much more in your subconscious, so do all your senses, of smell, sounds, touch, and taste. Self-improvement as well as inner peace and happiness can only be foun...
In the closing of the year, many people like to make New Years Resolutions in the search of inner peace and happiness. Since those are usually specific things that are also usually quickly forgotten as soon as you return to your job, I suggest yo...
The question of having a choice is an interesting one about personal power, it is one we choose to believe. If you truly had a choice in your life and actions, would you do the many things you do that are detrimental to your self or others? How ma...
There are several steps in the process of self-improvement and finding Inner peace and happiness described in this article. These steps may take some time to complete, and I intended to give you an idea of the path of personal growth that will wor...
The search for knowledge and self-improvement drives many people in the path of personal growth. Knowledge and information are not the same although our educated minds have confused the two and made them one from the intellectual point of view. I...
Many people tell me they cannot find any point to life. That is very sad of course, to continue to live just because it is the only alternative to death. Maybe they are right, or maybe not. Even if you have a purpose and see a point, this article ...
We have all been lied to, cheated, tricked and hurt. Sometimes it is just the common result of business, other times it is incompetence or a lack of accepting responsibility, but most of the time it is someone who is either a stranger or at least ...
This article is about the incorrect interpretation of the word and concept of ‘sin’ in the Bible. Here is its original definition. This research was done by my brother Michael, a truly great scholar and infinite source of accurate information as h...
There is a difference between ones character and abilities and ones self. The skills are temporary, they die with the body, ones self continues. When we compare our skills and personal growth to each other in the process of our self-improvement,...
Your whole life is most likely spent trying to make something of yourself, that is what we are taught from youth. Make something of yourself! It is all about Self-improvement. So we spend our life doing everything we can looking at whatever we ca...
The Law of Opposites is unavoidable in our world. It simply states that for everything, its opposite must also exist. This applies to temperature; hot and cold, weight; heavy and light, and emotions; love and hate. This article is about Love. Unf...
One must not perform the mystery of the ineffable and invisible power through visible and corruptible things of creation, nor that of the unthinkable and immaterial beings through sensible and corporeal things. Perfect salvation is the cognition ...
If you tell someone they are stupid and insult them, different people will react differently. Some will take it personally and feel bad, others will get aggressive and reply in kind. However, if you give anyone love and positive emotions, everyon...
Asking for the truth is the ultimate question but first we have to know how to know it. The way is through direct experience by our objective observation of our self. Can you see how subjective you are in your view of everything you encounter. ...
True, pure and real emotion is so overwhelming that one feels an expansion in the centre of the chest that grows and continues to grow, issuing forth a physical sensation of pressure, an almost solid but fluid substance. As it flows forth, the bo...
Many people complain that their parents did things to them as a child which have negatively effected them emotionally as an adult. These emotional issues are based on the memories. The memories are real, but the reality today is that the problem i...
How do you know when to let go, in business or personal situations in life. This is a very difficult question, but one that is vital to living a life that continuously moves forward. Afterall this planet is moving through space at 1,350,000 miles ...
In order to fix something, you must first know that it is broken. Now you can target the part that is broken, and then fix it. The problem is that although most people are aware there is something wrong, they do not know what the real problem is, ...
Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching; ‘...To have harmony in the kingdom, keep the people’s belly full and bed warm.’ He was speaking of how to keep the country running peacefully through accepting the reality that if people are in want, they will re...
I was reading an article about Kobe, Japan and came across a very telling report which gives an incite in to the dangerous territory we are going as a species. I do not think this attitude is limited to Kobe or Japan, but rather is global. The poi...
The existence or need of any group; political, religious or social such as men’s/women's groups, implies that there is an opposing group that one must resist. If there is harmony, then there is no need for a group of people to gather and unify in...
We can speak of God and Spirit and all the religions and teachings attributed to God on how we should live. The problem is that all the religious teachings have to be interpreted and there are so many interpretations that the interpreters themselv...
Do you feel like this; I have no hope for my life, I lost my job and am too old to get another one, I have no money, I cannot find a partner, I am tired, life sucks, I live in a dump and cannot afford a better place to live, my car is an old junk ...
If you find yourself going in circles and not getting anywhere with your life, personal or business, this article will help give you the power to break the endless loop. Look at every part of whatever you want to do and find the part or parts tha...
My articles are written from my thoughts and feelings. I do not write for the sake of anyone other than expressing what I know and hope that it may be of help for someone else. My recent article Is It Depression Or Boredom is very relevant to me ...
There is a big difference between being bored or depressed, however they appear the same in an adult, and so boredom becomes confused with depression. The longer you are bored, the more you will think and appear to others to be depressed, If it l...
This is a question of action and reaction. Do we create events or do the events form our way of thinking, and then once formed, do we influence events. Certainly one thing is clear, if there are negative events, our thoughts will normally become n...
This article will explain the cause of stress related to the pressures of life and how to eliminate the negative effects. Not only will that be explained, but you will also find how to use the pressure in a positive way. If you push on something,...
Searching for the meaning of life, ultimate reality? Thinking of going into a monastery because life is too tough? What do you think the right path to truth may be? There must be some special, mystical, hidden secret teaching or school out there t...
Much has been said about the importance of having an aim to give direction to your life for you to progress with your work. If you do not have an aim, nothing in your life can progress. Your aim is the engine which drives the entire vehicle. It i...
Every machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. Please bear in mind for this talk that the word Stress is meant like stretched to its maximum. No machine exists that ...
This subject is very tricky to understand, it is simple, yet difficult to grasp because it is so simple. For this reason, there will be many discussions about it in different ways for you to have the variety of concepts that one may reach your und...
I was asked a question; “I’m trying to find a way to balance having a relationship and achieve my goal. But I see I’ve failed to realise I cannot have both. Because my goal is also to be balanced my thinking is that I needed to have a relationship...
The greatest successes are people who can see some lesson or benefit in absolutely everything. As an example there is the joke of the man who goes to the doctor, lifts his arm, and says; “My arm hurts when I do this.” The doctor replies; “So don’t...
There are many paths to spiritual and worldly freedom. Every person can choose a path that suits them, and many work equally well. We can choose Zen, Kabbalah or Sufi for example which are very different paths but all lead to the same end. Some ...
Most proponents of the Law of Attraction argue that you attract everything into your life. This view makes it hard to explain events such as the death of a loved one. People say that my view of ‘logic to life’ makes more sense but it hardly makes ...
This is the question that so many people ask. Some have found comfort in religion and the different versions of God, but I, like many people, find that a bit hard to accept, so I have spent my life, and continue to look further each day, to find a...
The buddha said that what keeps us reincarnating is our need to be recognized, we want to exist and live eternally. The greatest pain for a human is to be totally alone, or even to feel totally alone, that there is no one with any wisdom you coul...
In many mystical teachings there is a common thought which, if you think about it, may help you get a better grip on your life. Here are a few different lines, read each one on its own, and then see how they all come together like pieces of a ji...
Many people think they have a bad memory or simply cannot think straight. There are too many events which turn out that we forget something or neglect to prepare for the obvious, and this is attributed to a bad memory. What if it has nothing to do...
Buddha said that life is suffering and that the cause of suffering is desire. That is a very clear and obvious truth. If I desire something, that means I do not have it, and if I want or need something that I do not have, that craving for it does...
Many people who believe in karma (the law of cause and effect in respect to previous incarnations if you believe in that) have the concept that the negative situations that happen to them are a type of karmic debt. That somehow they deserve whatev...
Religion. What better proof of the power from the combined force of large numbers of people for a single goal or purpose is there than religions. In a religion, everyone believes in one god, or Christ or idol. That works for sports, music, or mov...
The principle of the Mastermind group is well known by many people and there are many groups that have been formed under the premise of mastermind support groups, but they rarely if ever deliver a successful outcome. I have seen many of these gro...
This article is a gamble. When you read it, maybe you will identify with what is written, or think I am a fool. I have written this for a purpose and I am willing to take that risk. All I ask is that if the subject interests you, then please read ...
Many people want to find their true essential nature, their soul, but of course, that is a very rare discovery, at least it is if you are honest about it. I have another way of searching for that answer which is a bit simpler and perhaps answers ...
Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumour or spread gossip. One day an acquaintance ran up to Peter excitedly and said, "Do you know what I just heard about John?" "Wait a moment," Peter replied, "...
The difference of reality and illusion of life is what keeps us present or not present. If you live with reality you will be present, if you deny reality you live in illusion and cannot be present. The reality is; from the instant you are conceiv...
Many people think that humanity is reaching a higher spiritual level than ever before. I think those people have not been to the historical sites and probably lived through TV and the internet. Certainly there are many things on the internet which...
One of the many drawbacks to western culture is the lack of involvement and devotion on a deeply personal level to anything or anyone. When I was in Cambodia I spent a few days with a group from Singapore who was there as a charity project bringi...
You cannot make yourself love yourself just as you cannot make yourself love another person. Loving yourself is a result, rather than a cause, of a changed personality. When you have rid yourself of qualities that you dislike or are no longer limi...
People will never change if they think they are alright. This is simply logical, why put in effort to fix what is not broken. We must see and realize that it is not alright to accept anything and everything. To accept mediocrity and negativity negates the possibility of progress.
Everyone accepts that nobody's perfect and it is impossible for anyone to be perfect. At the same time, almost everyone would like to know and be in unity with God, or whatever term you use for what you perceive as a greater being. The problem is...
Scientific studies show that people who feel they have no control over their life are more prone to depression, but people who feel they have control over their life in general are happy and positive. Therefore we can say in a generality that a f...
For a bike wheel to roll smoothly, all the spokes must be strong and well connected. They connect to the hub. The hub is the central point of the wheel and connects to the axel. As I discovered by my own experience, when one spoke out of the 20 on...
In this world everything must have its opposite to exist. Therefore, human (temporal) love prevents mystical realization because to have human love means its opposite must exist which is negative emotions. Negative emotions are what prevent pure ...
The thoughts of this writing are based on the Hermetica, a body of literature written in late antiquity, but believed to be much older. Perhaps written at the time of Moses. Written originally in Latin and Greek, it is the source of the Gnostic te...
Being a mix of cultures, parents from India and Middle East, while being born in Montreal myself, and having lived in various countries for the past 20 years, I see the world split in two cultures or mentalities, East and West. Today, I am in Cam...
Zen is an interesting path. It tells us that nothing exists including our self, that we have no essential reality or even a soul. This can be very confusing if left without deeper study to find its meaning. We are basically an accumulation of tho...
Many people in Western countries have a very comfortable life with all the necessities that anyone can ask for, yet they are unfulfilled and dissatisfied. The normal course of action is to find a new job or relationship. It does not take long unti...
I am in Cambodia now, the town of Siem Reap and am amazed at how many charity foundations there are in this town, three hundred NGO's (non-governmental associations), one everywhere you look. I have visited with several projects so far and learnt ...
This is a follow up to the article entitled ‘The Eleventh Hour’, in which we discussed the value and need of a deadline. Now we shall discuss where the power of having a deadline comes from. The reason desires do not make things happen is because...
Everyone is seeking the way to balance their material life with their spiritual aspirations and practices. I believe there is no way to balance the two because they are not in fact separate. For two things to balance against each other, they must...
The greatest successes in business and life in general usually come from a decision based on a 'feeling'. That gut instinct when you just know something is right, or wrong, is usually correct, but all too often, recalled only after we made the wro...
The following are some examples which a reader presented from his life about coincidences and synchronisity. Reader: 1.) During school days, many times I was home in the evening and thinking of some girl or boy from my class and than I went out ...
It is an interesting thing I have noticed, that everyone dreams and wishes to be a certain way, free of negative emotions, free in spirt, open of heart, without pain or fear, and meet someone like that. Yet if they meet someone who possesses those...
I have found that there is a repeating theme, things that are reliant on something out of my control and must be done by a certain deadline, get done just in time. It generally applies to things in which I had no control, such as something I want...
Let’s use for the purpose of this article, this definition of God. God is not a particular being, there is nothing religious about God. God simply is a name given to a thing so that we can refer to that thing in conversation for the purposes of ...
There is a saying, look to yourself for the cause and solution to all your problems. This is a very interesting saying because it has many meanings. The first is the obvious, to see what you have done wrong to cause the problem. This is easy to a...
As we discussed in the previous article, I Didn’t Mean That, ‘Emotional Containment’ here is the exercise to help with attaining this freedom. The problem is that it sounds simple, but if taken literally and applied without wisdom, it can be dange...
Many times people, in the heat of the moment, will say something, and then quickly upon realizing that it was inappropriate, try to stuff the words back in their mouth pleading that they did not mean that or they were just joking. The problem is t...
This article is about seeing and being able to use the positive in everything. We will start with exploring the foundation of being able to live a fully positive and successful life, what prevents it, and then proceed to more detail about the meth...
In my business career as well as with with my clients and students, I have developed a firm belief that our business success is 10% skill and 90% who we are, the quality of our character. This is exemplified by Richard Branson, a man with little ...
There is a world of difference between running towards God and running away from the world. If you find the world empty of value, void of meaning beyond the very short and temporary life span of a human being, and this causes you to turn towards ...
This article will be of much greater value if you have read my little eBook, “All IS Mind” available on entrepreneurmonk.com/books or have taken the course. However, even if you have not, you may find great value in what is written. Briefly to gi...
There are many people who are drawing large numbers of followers through their social network, propagating that the world is changing and that the ‘energies’ are now different as humanity enters a realm of heightened awareness. They claim that th...
Emotions are real, there is no question of how large a part of our life they are, but here I propose that there is much more to emotions than just feelings. Emotions are really a message, rather than a feeling. They are not caused by a reaction t...
Being present and feeling bliss is the moment in which you are not thinking of anything else, hence the concept that we are already enlightened, is because what prevents enlightenment is living in thoughts of past or future, i.e., memories. By be...
Everything we are, meaning our reactions to situations, thoughts and emotions, is all based on our memories. Many of our pains and pleasures are felt when we think about, or associate the current moment, to an event that happened in the past, thus...
A rock thrown into the river will disturb the water for a moment, even splashing drops on the bank. The water can only yield, that is its nature, it has no choice. As time passes, the river flows and the stone is worn down. That is the nature o...
The definition of a school is a place in which people who can and wish to learn meet with one or more people who can and wish to teach. It is not a building or a place, the entire planet is a school, or is not, depending on the minds of the peopl...
We have spoken of the many layers of the totality of our being in previous articles, and now we shall explain how each one has its own mind. There is the mind of each of the physical senses, the mind of discrimination of good and bad, the mind of...
The past years have taken a trend in the concept that by changing the words, we can actually change the situation. This is clearly impossible, but yet it does work. I would like to explore how the impossible works. If there is a problem, no matte...
I left my home heading West and returned from the East. In California, I saw giant sequoia redwood trees, twenty stories high and wide as a house. In Hawaii, it was volcanoes and black sand, landscapes like the moon. In Japan, I saw 2000 temples o...
For some people, struggle gives purpose, which is why people who are not rich, stay that way because if there is a struggle to survive, they have a purpose in their life. There is nothing worse than a life with no purpose and any purpose will do. ...
Changing the words to describe situations is a common concept in new age and political correctness culture. The concept is that by changing the word, the subject actually changes. That is simply not realistic since we know that all thought is in o...
We all want to create, but we cannot all just be creative, yet. We must first be capable of creating wisely and of a quality that is beneficial in order to satisfy our creative nature and drive. If not, we may create things that are harmful to oth...
If you are waiting to have enough time to do the things you want to do, to devote yourself to that project or practice that you know would be beneficial, you will never find the time. Time has to be stolen from one thing or another, you are alway...
When one person laughs, everyone laughs. When someone cries, others cry. Emotions are felt sincerely indeed, but the question is what elicits the emotion? Are we feeling based on the event, or is it because someone else is expressing an emotion wh...
To respect and give consideration for others, always taking care never to hinder, hold back or hurt anyone. To always consider another persons life, and what they have to do, is showing respect at the same time as gratitude, they are closely rela...
Many people are focused on finding their true purpose or life purpose. They spend a lot of time thinking about and trying to find their true purpose, but never get it no matter what methods they try. My best advice is to forget it and give up be...
There is a big difference between sincere gratitude and profusely saying thank you. The difference is sincerity, and that affects how the giver feels about giving to you in the future. When you sincerely feel gratitude, then one thank you is eno...
Where did you learn how to see. How did you acquire vision. What is vision. Let us look at the actual process of seeing. Before we can see anything, there must be something to look at. So the first step is that something exists. Then that obj...
I have created a new model of the mind and personality, The Anatomy of the Mind. A Power Point slide show combines with a book breaking down the aspects of the personality depicted analogically as Organs in the body of the Mind. We begin with Or...
It is clear that an accepted belief these days is that all is love. That all things exist because of love. In Sufism, we say that God is love and out of God’s love all things have come into being. So nothing exists save love. It is also common...
The only way to be truly free is to accept your prison, be that in the society or in your own mind. In that acceptance, you have released your resistance. By releasing your resistance, you become free. Negative emotions and resistance is a denial...
In the search for knowledge especially spiritual knowledge, everyone wants the good stuff, high quality, the real meat of knowledge, but so few are willing to pay for it, and they do not understand how to pay. And so they float and wander from sch...
This is the real question we all ask at some point in our life, is anyone there? Am I alone here, in the crowd, in the world? This article is about those moments, the times when we wonder if we are from another planet because it seems like no on...
The way to conquer negative feelings associated with being criticized is based on your interpretation of events. You take things that someone says about you negatively as if you are being criticized, then get depressed, angry or in a bad mood. Thi...
We learn the habits of our manners, tastes in food, character, values, morals, etc. as we grow up. We go to sleep at a certain time, eat a meal at a certain time, the type of food considered appropriate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. To be humb...
Everything that comes and goes in your life is due to one thing that people give different names, chance, luck, destiny, God, or nature. The nature of the world is what it is. For example, using average people, the nature of a thief is to steal, ...
In our search for knowledge which we hope will make our life better, we take any opportunity that we are convinced will benefit us. The problem is that we trust others who appear to be in an authoritative position and are presented as trustworth...
I was first introduced to Think and Grow Rich by my grandfather when I was 12 years old. He gave me his copy, an original printing from India, his home country. I read it and it worked. From literally zero assets and no help whatsoever from my pa...
There are three kinds of emotions, those related to the animal level or physical body, the ego/personality and those related to the ‘Something More’ that is referred to by people who feel there is something more to life. As the human body and per...
Many spiritual schools or paths have their own particular mantras, a word or short phrase that one repeats constantly to keep ones mind focused on God. The Law of Attraction for money shown in The Secret and other goals have their own mantras. I ...
Sincerity is the word. It is the power behind all success in personal refinement. Pure thought is the power to command. Thought is made impure by fears, falsity, distractions, false desires, false personality, fragmentation, identification and s...
Self-lying is our greatest hindrance to success. The truth cannot be found when you are living in a lie. Self-lying is just that, lying to yourself. We all do it, daily in fact. We may call it by other names, justify it, ignore it, or give in and...
Negative emotions are not real and are not natural. It is not possible to have any negative emotion that is part of our essence. Every negative emotion is learnt. Negative emotions need to be defined so they are not confused with other emotions...
You may have started out not knowing anything about the spiritual side of life, you where only material, but there was something different about you that made you feel something was missing in a so called normal life. Or perhaps you knew some grea...
‘Beautiful Eyes’ is the gift promised by God for the martyr, one who dies in the service of God. There are different interpretations of the original arabic word Hur’In from the Koran but they are most commonly related to this translation of Beauti...
The level of awe and devotion required for spiritual growth is frowned upon by western culture as being unhealthy because you are losing yourself to someone else. Westerners think that you should never give or lose yourself and so the result is th...
By understanding the different kinds of weaknesses you have, you will find that you are a much stronger and better person through accepting what you can change and what you cannot. The other benefit of knowing about the different kinds of weaknes...
In the search for what excites you in life, there is no thing to do or possess, no place to go, nothing at all that can replace the essential need and ultimate foundation of good companionship to make life in general more interesting and satisfyin...
The subject of this article is about reacting to negative emotions. If you are affected by other peoples actions, that indicates that you care about what they think of you, you are not free. Certainly that is normal in our society, but is it norm...
I wonder...when something new is opened or discovered and there is so much activity, people say how wonderful and helpful it is, are they lying? or just wrong. For the purposes of this discussion, I am not speaking of a new restaurant, rather this...
Let me tell you what frustrates me. The frustration comes from my own limitation to help people in a certain position, I simply do not know how to get this type of person past the point they are stuck at. This is not to say I do not know how to ...
The first thing is to really understand, not just intellectually, but to sincerely finally understand and accept is that there is no one specific God given special path for anyone. We each have some abilities, either natural talents or developed a...
There is a great danger in the whole idea that thoughts are things and we create what we think. This danger is to people who do not fully understand what that principle means, how it works, and how it can be confused with guidance and intuition. ...
That is the problem. You do not know who you are, and you only know what you think you want. There are many sayings that tell us to find our self, be that in religion, Shakespeare or in common conversation. ‘Know thyself’ “To thine own self be tr...
Depression, which is partly anger at ourselves, is self-destructive and drains our energy to the point that it is sometimes difficult to function even minimally. Depression is an illness of will, which becomes diseased, making a person incapable o...
It is a common phenomena that people working with the law of attraction, the secret and positive thoughts towards a goal will receive many opportunities, but often, they never materialize. This leads to confusion and eventually dropping of the fai...
In the search for success, love or spiritual growth, everyone wants some new and exciting ‘tools’ or ‘method’, the magic pill. The problem is that success is not made in magic pill form, it comes from long hard work, and people are not interested...
For those of you who know me and my views on ‘weekend enlightenment workshops’ you will be appropriately shocked by the title of this article, and even more shocked to know that I believe this to be true. The three minutes are spent in reading th...
What is important in getting something is understanding what it is. If you do not understand something, it is impossible to get it other than by luck, and luck is too unreliable to base your life on. You must understand money and what it can give...
This is an exercise which I suggest doing for one month or longer. I would really appreciate hearing your results since it is a matter of great interest and a worthy study. Finding the true root cause of anything is the method to eliminate even s...
This story is not for children, it is for the adult the child will become. As a children's story, since children are so impressionable, the best lessons of being a quality person are given to us at that young age. This will set the child's mind ...
Paranoia is fear of being caught. What exactly are you afraid of being caught for? Is it for being pure and perfect? That is doubtful. If a person is paranoid, that means they have something to fear, something they did wrong or are too weak to...
It is a common dream, many people have it, but I have achieved it for many years on a small scale. I would now like to make my dream grow. I have built and had a successful school of this nature in Colorado, but I left that country and now live ...
You will notice that my articles vary in style and content. I assure you that I have written every word of what I publish, and if I take from another, I give them credit. What I write and post here is as much for you, the reader, as it is for me...
I have studied many different paths and often refer to their teachings to help my students understand the same principle from many angles . One such teaching is from the Ancient Sufis – “It takes 100 years to travel a journey alone that would tak...
An inspiring story and excellent example of the principles, "When the need arises, the solution appears." as well as another saying, "If the solution is not clear, increase the need and that will draw a better solution quicker."...
This article is a transcript of a talk with a male student. It starts with a discussion of an exercise he has been given and then expands into the subject of the intellectual and emotional centers, feelings and thoughts. He is very shy and lacks s...
Misery or good things, almost every thing that happens to you, other than some exceptions, has happened due to your own decision at one point in time. You made a decision and that sent a chain of events in progress until what you are currently de...
The reason it is so vital to always acknowledge the source of whatever you have achieved or received is to avoid arrogance. When a person achieves anything, be it financially or spiritually, and they think they have done it on their own, they beco...
If you run from it, how will you ever attain it. If the world is a form manifested by God and, if we run from the world, then how can we find God? You must get to know the world, and you know the world by knowing your self. You know yourself by ...
If you are on your own, it is very hard to get yourself motivated and continue forward. But if you have someone to work with, you have much more power. Two people together can do the work of four people each on their own. But more importantly, whe...
Law of Attraction - Achieve Goals Series What is your true goal? What is that for each of us? It is not the same for all but appears to be the same for everyone in a group who share the same goal. That is obvious, but there is more to this than...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series Your mind is a conglomeration of thoughts and memories, in itself, it does not exist. Mind is like a dustball, the ball itself is only a collection of dust held together by static electricity. Remove each spec of ...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series Here is a little exercise that you can do in just a few minutes which can yield some interesting experiences about your mind and its multiplicity. You can do this with any reading material, a book, magazine it doe...
Your thoughts control your moods. This is simply the way it is, we must think, or something must reach our intellectual mind to be processed and understood before we can feel anything. If someone insulted you in a language you do not understand, h...
Law of Attraction - Spiritual Growth Series There are many concepts about spiritual growth. The problem is that you do not even know what ‘spiritual’ really means, otherwise you would have it. The entire concept of ‘spiritual’ is so distorted by...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series This article is about an organ which you have never heard of or been aware exists. It is the ‘pattern organ’ and is located in your mind. Since science has not yet located the ‘mind’ we have no idea how big it is...
Law of Attraction - Achieve Goals series Making a clear and definite commitment is the secret key to making the Universe deliver your goal mentioned in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and the Movie not long ago released called The S...
Law of Attraction - How to make money in business series When you go to the restaurant, you go with an empty stomach. They give you food, you give them money. There is the emptiness, which is filled, and then what is given gets something in ret...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series I was in my kitchen which has very large windows and is on the second floor over looking the driveway when all of a sudden the beige walls and ceiling all turned red. Everything in the room was red even the light ...
Law of Attraction - Spiritual Growth and Business Can business and spiritual growth go hand in hand and both develop simultaneously? Emphatically yes. Sufism and the Tantric paths are two examples of having a family and work or business in harmon...
Law of Attraction - Enlightenment Series Your true nature, a state of full consciousness, it is within your grasp, you just do not know it. You see, your true nature is not an organ or a particular thing that you can call your soul. True conscio...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series Knowledge of how something functions is vital to being able to use it, be it a nuclear power plant or a can opener. If we do not know what it is and how it works and how to use it properly, it is of little or no u...
Law of Attraction - Books Series When we read something inspirational or poetic for example, our ability to understand is limited to what we have previously experienced. Everything is taken with identification in the literal sense, we try to ide...
Law of Attraction - Positive Thinking Series I was discussing my recent trip to Japan with a friend and mentioned how the Japanese people are so obedient to the rules and respect of others. How they form lines and stay on their side of the walkwa...
Law of Attraction - Service & Contemplation Series If you have no useful purpose, your work, job, something that you do that is useful and serving humanity daily, or if you do not find what you do to be a useful service, then you may have a f...
As long as there is more than one thing involved in any situation, and there always is, they have a point at which they meet. This meeting point is often overlooked or simply not recognized that it exists, and so problems are difficult to solve a...
Law of Attraction - Practical Meditation Series As an example, when people speak about the roads on a snowy day and say it is a mess, that is a negative attitude. Even if it is true, it may be messy but it is what it is. You will deal with whatev...
Law of Attraction - Enlightenment Series I shall here describe what I have attained and how I attained it. I hope to continue my progress as I know there is still so much further to go. It is my sincere wish that you will attain what I have, and ...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series This article is directed towards people with low self-esteem and so is one sided to that view. A child is born very intelligent with an excellent learning capacity. This is based on the fact of how quickly a chil...
Law of Attraction - Mind Series Every machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. No machine exists that is a singularly whole unit, all machines are merely a sum of ...
Law of Attraction - Spiritual Growth Series The Law of Rhythm is basically indicating an expression of habits. A habit is something you do consistently, therefore it has a rhythmic movement to it. The Law of Rhythm shows you your habits and tho...
Law of Attraction - Achieve Goals Series I am a medical student who has lost passion for the course. If i really think about what I love in life it is to travel, to do photography and to love my family. Being a Doctor has been a goal of mine f...
There is a nice story of two old friends, one who never married. His friend asked one day, why he never found a wife. John said that he did look, but there was always something. One woman just could not cook well, another was too selfish, anoth...
There is no character trait or condition that affects one human that does not affect every human. It is just a matter of degree. The preceding statement must be part of every sincere persons wish to improve oneself. One of the greatest confusi...
If the soul, your essence, is the smallest little dot of your being and is covered by layers of ego personality and there are layers for each experience of your life, how can you ever find it? Each layer is another illusion. Illusions are how we...
Today I would like to discuss a significant obstacle in our search for truth and personal development that is so effectively ignored and simultaneously encouraged that we have virtually lost any significant chance of success. As we already know, ...
This article may sound like a business or cultural discussion, but it leads to a very valuable personal growth lesson at the end. The general consensus is that ‘made in China’ means garbage quality, as if everything made in China is going to be r...
The quality of your actions and the results are relative to the level of awareness that we possess. A strong character is the foundation and roots that hold up the massive structure of a complete human being. "Character is Destiny" Her...
A human without love is not a human being. To live without loving is merely existing, it is a robots life. To be truly alive, to live, to feel, one must have someone to love. Love must be given to someone who can receive it for the lover to feel ...
In the pursuit of truth and the hopeful clarification of the escalating lunacy that is pervading our world at present, cultivating a religious war of truly disastrous proportions, I offer you a touch of reality. It is unlikely that many people ot...
Spiritual growth relies, in my opinion after decades of self work and study along with meeting many remarkable and unremarkable people, on the cultivation of your morals, personality and character. A strong character with correct standards and mo...
Negative is really positive. Accept what is and you will never be disappointed or fail. Generalities are the rule, we must play by the rules. Humans are unreliable. Know this and they are without failure, and you will be without failure. Every...
Anger at someone in a situation where let's say you almost hit them with your car as example and hurt them gets you very angry and say what a stupid fool. Yet the only damage would be to the other person and it was really an innocent act on their ...
The lowest common denominator is the key to success or failure. Ultimately, everything to do with a business, its operations, its products, sales, expenses, etc, boils down to being effected by the lowest common denominator, the individual human ...
Spiritual seekers and budding entrepreneurs alike are faced with a terrible dilemma, knowing the true meaning of what is really being said. Be it a conversation or reading an inspirational or apparently humorous story, knowing the real meaning d...
The first key principle in business success is knowing who you are dealing with, and who you are, a smart person or a foolish person. The difference between a smart person and a foolish person is that when a foolish person is foolish, he thinks h...
The successful entrepreneur operates with the individuality of each client in mind. These are a few points that make the difference between the average entrepreneur and one who's business excels. There are certain qualities of character which ar...
Forgiveness is a very popular concept. Everyone who is interested in self healing and personal development is talking about forgiveness and how that is being compassionate etc. However, many people find it difficult or impossible to truly forgive....
The Sufis say that the way to find God is either through a living teacher or, failing that, is through acceptance. Acceptance of all things that come to you without judging them. The way of accepting all things without complaining or feeling bad i...
Have you ever tried wrapping a copper wire around an iron nail and connecting the ends of the wire to a battery? Instantly, with the electrical charge going through the wire and around the nail, it becomes a magnet. Even with the addition of elect...
If I treated Paul with great kindness and generosity, he would praise me at my funeral as being the most wonderful man who ever lived. But if I also treated John with cruelty and cheated him every chance I could, he would have only terrible things...
When we are young we ask the question of why am I here. This is normal for most people. Some have stopped asking and forgot they asked at all, and others still ask no matter how old they are. We look for an answer, ask our parents, teachers, anyo...
Everything has a prerequisite. If you want to bake a cake, you need a hot oven aside from all the ingredients. To have a hot oven, you need electricity or gas to heat the oven. To have that, you need the delivery system to bring the power to the h...
The Universal Laws are laws which govern the way things work. They are equally tools which we can use to make certain laws deliver certain results by consciously using other laws to effect them. The laws are not controlling masters if we choose to...
Prejudice is considered incorrect behaviour, yet we create it and place it upon ourselves. To say that we do things because we are a Kiwi, Canadian, Indian, Jew, Christian, Chinese and so on, is to place that stereotype upon ourselves. An animal...
There are two kinds of conversations, one with thought and the other without thought. We will not bother with anything that is without thought as that is just passing air. In conversations with thought, there are two kinds which appear similar bu...
All too often, we have a thought about something, which way to turn on the road, which number to pick, many things, we get a feeling but then think and choose differently. There are two separate abilities to make a decision, ego and intuition. W...
The ability to think creatively is developed with exercise, otherwise it dies off. Our world makes all things far to simple and so this ability is rapidly atrophying. All we do is push a button and it is done. I am sure we have all had experience...
The purpose of these principles are to guide any individual towards achieving their goals in work, relationships, spiritual pursuits, personal calm and balance, and life in general. These principles are drawn from several ancient traditions as we...
People feed on exhilaration due to chemical reactions taking place within the body that are produced by the body in certain situations automatically on its own. Sometimes these exhilarating feelings we get are not frequent enough to satisfy the b...
I have been asked to write more on this subject, and so I am pleased to do so. I have noticed in my decades of teaching that the sincerity of a person when they ask a question determines the quality of the response that I give. But another large ...
Brainwashing is a term that has a negative connotation, yet it is the only method by which we can improve our lives and achieve any goal we desire. The concept of brainwashing is to wash out the brain, meaning thoughts, beliefs, personality, and ...
When we are born, the first pure desire we have is a desire to eat. The infant does not think about food, it feels hunger and wants to eat. It then smells the mothers milk in her breast and moves towards the food source. Desire preceded thought...
I would like to write about a young fellow who has virtually changed his destiny. Two years ago, Ande was a 25 year old with thousands of dollars of debt, no real possessions or assets, he did not have any money in the bank, no car, and rented a ...
There is a lot of talk about The Secret and the Law of Attraction. The basis of these now very popular programs is valid, however we can be certain that if these programs were effective on a larger percentage there would be a lot more rich and suc...
There is so much truth to that saying, we all heard it, and now as adults, how many of us actually understand it and have it as part of our lives. But on the other hand, when a mystical teaching tells us to acquire equanimity and not be affected...
Get an eye pillow. You can get one in a new age book shop or pharmacy or health nutrition store. It is a small silk pillow about 7 cm by 15 cm long with some scented stuff inside. When you are sitting somewhere for a while, and you will not need ...
"God created all creatures equal, except man. To man, He gave freedom of choice." This thought is what my grandfather always told me, and now 30 years later, it struck me that our being and personality, our potential and our actualizat...
Deep emotion, in order to be experienced, requires a deep relaxation of the body. Either fear of emotions or a desire not to feel them because of what comes with the experience of that deep love and emotion, causes a physical tension which traps ...
What do you feel? The first thing that happens when asked this question is that you think about it. Then your mind goes in one direction and you think about that further. The moment thought or intellect comes into the question of feeling, imagi...
Some Of My Thoughts About The Foundation Of A Good Relationship A good relationship is built on being able to have a good conversation rather than a strung together line of clichés and standard lines about any subject that are mere repetitions of...
I have often heard people say that they have no more to give, that they have given so much and have nothing left. I do not understand how this is possible. I wonder what it is that they have none left of. If I understood the conversation correctl...
Making a clear and definite commitment is the secret key to making the Universe deliver your goal mentioned in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and the Movie not long ago released called The Secret. The Secret movie is very popular...
Emotion is emotion, it is neutral in nature. Your thoughts, at the time, make it positive or negative. Emotion is an amazing thing, and very misunderstood. Everyone has it, you feel up and down from time to time, and yet at times cannot unders...
I would like to explain why this slogan is the foundation of my philosophy. Like all foundations, there is a lot more to it than you can see, and usually a foundation is buried underground, so its real value is hidden when you look at the building...
Depression is a rampant disease according to our scientific medical community. Is that an accurate statement, or is it a massive misdiagnosis based on the real problem being too illusive to cure or too “spiritual” for medical science to acknowledg...
People relate all events that effect them in any way as if they have come to be just for them, as if it has not only anything, but everything to do with you. We indirectly believe that God, the universe, or other people are doing what they do spec...
A truly arrogant or evil person does not see or acknowledge that they are that way. That is the mark of one who has a good chance of self-improvement, seeing what is really inside themselves. The truly arrogant or evil person sees themselves as ...
To succeed in achieving your goal, there must be an inward satisfaction as well as the outward achievement of the goal. A goal that is related to anything in the world, for yourself or for others is what we call an ‘outward’ goal. In order for an ...
The goal of personal development is personal freedom. Freedom from your emotions, moods, reactions to success or failure and most importantly, freedom from being dependant on other people or your environment. Emotional independence is not about ...
To succeed in life, both in the world of business, relationships and other things, as well as succeed in the inner world, the spiritual world, you must learn to accept reality and your actions as they are without trying to make things fit your ima...
