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Brian Johnson nets out the great lessons of humanity for you by synthesizing the latest books on human potential, philosophy and life-empowerment. Get key takeaways, 3 times a week, in synopsis form.
Join Brian as he goes straight to the “big ideas” from the world’s great personal development teachers including: Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Abraham-Hicks, Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Dan Millman, Paulo Coelho, Nietzsche, Rumi, Ayn Rand, Joseph Campbell, Marcus Aurelius, Abraham Maslow and Napoleon Hill.
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PN 123: The Spirit of Life
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
“When
you realize that the Spirit individualized itself and named itself you,
you unhook yourself from nonsense, such as what others think of you,
even what you are thinking about yourself. Instead, you begin to ask,
“How is the Spirit of Life functioning in, through, and as me?” Place
that question before the tribunal of your consciousness more and more
frequently, and you will begin to attune yourself to insights from the
realm of the Real.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 122: Personality vs. Character
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
“Understand that to be creatively maladjusted is to know the vital distinction between personality and character. The word character is from the Old French caractere and means “imprint on the soul.” The etymology of personality suggests veneer and is connected with the Latin word persona, which was a mask worn by actors. Character is revealed when our mask is removed.It’s
easy to tell if you are living from character or personality: If things
aren’t going your way, personality pouts while character remains
unruffled and learns from the experience. When you are not in
psychologically or emotionally safe territory, personality panics.
Character, on the other hand, rides the vicissitudes of life with
even-mindedness. Personality endeavors to extract happiness from its
experiences, whereas character realizes that happiness is an inherent
quality of being that infuses experiences with happiness.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 121: Spiritual Indigestion and Constipation
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
“To
agree with the keys described here is one thing, to practice them is
another. To read and study and have conversations about spiritual
practices is good, but unless you incorporate them into your life, you
won’t embody or integrate them—which means you aren’t receiving their
benefits. Ask yourself, “How can I now move from theory into practice?”
If you merely collect spiritual information without practicing it,
all you will develop is a case of spiritual indigestion and
constipation.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 120: Practice, Practice, Practice
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
“That which transforms your life is what you practice. And what you practice constitutes your personal laws of life—not what you merely believe in, but what you practice.
It’s all well and good to read books, and to attend seminars, lectures,
and workshops, and to say, “Oh, that really resonates with me! It’s now
part of my life’s philosophy.” Your philosophy may give you a temporary
state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes
practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get
free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 119: Burning Bagels and Mis-takes
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Nov 13, 2009
“A
conscious realization of our innate oneness with the Ineffable does not
mean that we will never make a mistake again. Even enlightened beings
burn their bagels once in a while. It’s important to maintain a sense
of humor because this is how you will stop being afraid of making a
mistake. You’ll make some, but so what? That’s why they’re called
mis-takes. Humor relaxes the uptight ego. You get a new cue from your
inner Self and simply say, “I missed my cue, so let’s do a second
take.” Your willingness to take the risk of making a mistake is
actually an expression of courage and a willingness to grow from them.
Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in
the blessing.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 118: Don’t Wait. Participate, Risk & Grow Now!
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
“What
keeps nagging at you to take action that you keep holding back on,
postponing? Don’t wait. Participate, risk, and grow now. The longer you
hide out in the attempt to remain safe, the more you become fearful,
nervous, hesitant. You will not be present as a participant in birthing
a new world, a world that very much wants and needs the contribution of
your consciousness.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 117: Positive-Negativity
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
“Not
all pain is negative, even though we label all forms of pain as such
and resist them. Positive-negativity is a circumstance that causes us
to go deeper, to search ourselves, to stop placing blame on the causes
of suffering outside ourselves, and take self-responsibility.
Circumstances arise and hard times come so that we may grow through
them, so that we may evolve. I like to say that a bad day for the ego
is a good day for the soul. When we look back on some of our most
challenging experiences, we admit that we wouldn’t trade what we gained
from them for remaining the same as we were. Something within
acknowledges that during those times when we are pressed against the
ropes of life, we learn to become more generous, to forgive, to never
give up on ourselves or others. We learn to regenerate, to rejuvenate,
to surrender.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 116: Freedom from the Tyranny of Trends
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Nov 06, 2009
“One
of the ways we hijack our capacity to experience a state of beholding
is that we become swept up in what I call the “tyranny of trends.” The
tyranny of trends allows for the lowest common denominator to set the
standard of success, and of course, “coolness.” Very often, trends
convince individuals what their life’s purpose should be. The tyranny
of trends is blasted out at us from television, radio, newspapers,
tabloids, computers, and even our dentist’s waiting room, attempting to
convince us that we must smell a certain way, wear a certain label,
weigh a specific weight, have whiter teeth, drive a certain car, make a
certain income, and so on, before we can consider that we’ve made it.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 115: Discipline Leads to Blissipline
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Nov 04, 2009
“The
transition from the egoic self to the Authentic Self requires
discipline... The good news is that discipline eventually becomes what
I call a “blissipline” because it leads to playing our part with
integrity, dignity, elegance, passion, and deep contentment.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation
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PN 114: Are You a “Now” Or “Later” Person?
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
“If
I asked you what kind of person you are—a “now” or “later” person—which
would you choose? I’ll give you the breakdown. The “now” folks are
consistently drawn toward pleasing activities, spending their time
getting lost in TV, sex, food, laziness—you know, all the
fun-in-the-moment stuff. The “later” group, on the other hand, is drawn
toward pleasing results, often engaging in less-than-pleasing
activities in the moment. They invest their time in things like going
to the gym, working long hours, reading good books, attending personal
transformation events, hanging out with people who stretch their
thinking, following through, risking, becoming comfortable with being
uncomfortable. Which of these two groups of people do you think
experiences real freedom? Which category do you fall into? Be honest.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 113: Everything Has a Gestation Period
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
“Everything
has a gestation period, a time period that must pass before things will
come into form. If you plant a carrot seed, it takes about seven weeks
for the sprout to make its above-dirt entrance. Bamboo, which can grow
up to thirteen feet in as little as one week, takes up to seven years
to break through the surface of the ground. But for seven long years it
looks like absolutely nothing’s happening. Now that takes some
commitment.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 112: Blessings, Curses & Opportunities
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
“The
person of low awareness sees everything in life in a dualistic
perspective, either as a blessing or a curse. The master of life sees
all things as opportunities.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 111: Tough Grapes, Fine Wines & Your (Fine) Life
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
“I
recently toured the California wine country, and was fascinated to
learn that in winemaking, the grapes are purposely stressed. Growers
take care not to give the grapes much water, even though they raise
them in full sunshine, purposely keeping shade to a minimum. The stress
is intentional; it keeps grapes right on the border between survival
and almost collapsing and dying because the grapes that survive the
test make the finest wine. There’s a metaphor here: Don’t wish for an
easier life. Wish to be at your finest. Just as the finest, most
expensive wine comes from the grape that can stand the greatest
resistance, you too will grow in direct proportion to the resistance
you can sustain.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 110: Who Will You Have to Become?
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Oct 23, 2009
“I remember years ago hearing one of my mentors say, “Decide to be a millionaire, not for the green slips of paper, but for who you’ll have to become to get there.”
That’s what we’re doing together—expanding who you are in all of the
key areas of your life so that you’ll grow into the person who can
create all that you desire. It’s really not the goal completion, but
the growth that comes in the process that your spiritual self truly
desires. I promise, you’ll never “get” a desire, a true desire for
something you can’t achieve. Never have, never will. When you get a
real desire, it’s your Higher Self saying, C’mon, this is what you’re
capable of; this is what I have in store for you. It’s the greater,
grander you, echoing backward through time. How cool is that? Now the
only question is: Will you heed the call? It was the great mythologist
Joseph Campbell who stated, “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” Well, what will it be?” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 109: Are You a Ceiling Surfer?
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Oct 21, 2009
“Others
swing too far into the quantum world and become what I call “ceiling
surfers.” I once had lunch with someone who announced he was going to
transform the molecules of his pizza into a salad. Give me a break!
That’s taking a principle so far it becomes ridiculous. It will bring
you nothing but disappointment.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 108: How Are Your Results?
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
“You
may be able to tap into every theory in quantum physics, spirituality,
psychology, philosophy, or anything else that can teach you about
accessing your power, but if you can’t use that power to create results
in your life, it’s pointless, useless, a total waste of time.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 107: Going “3 for 3”
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
“We’ll
reveal how, with Harmonic Wealth, you can create true wealth by going 3
for 3 in the five main areas of life. Going “3 for 3” is what happens
when your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions are all firing
simultaneously and in alignment.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 106: Why Balance Is Bogus
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
“I’m
a great believer in harmony, but balance is bogus. Many teachers talk
about balance, and guess what? Not one of them is balanced. I know; I
used to be one of them. The only people who are perfectly balanced are
six feet under and it’s not your time yet. Balance in this world cannot
be achieved, so get over it. Think of a scale. In perfect balance,
nothing’s happening. There’s no dynamism, no life or vibrancy. Now,
think of a jazz band in action—the life and vibrancy are palpable,
aren’t they? The performers in this band have less to do with playing
the melody as written and more to do with improvising. They give life
to nuance and the music takes shape in the moment. That’s harmony.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 105: The Five Pillars of Wealth
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
“The
Five Pillars of Wealth: Financial, Relational, Mental, Physical, and
Spiritual. Without these five pillars, you might be rich, but you’ll
never be wealthy. Interestingly enough, I’ve found that the more you
reach this state of true wealth, the more money rushes to you—and all
that money can provide. The universe is at your command and lines up in
joyous support of your awakening.” ~ James Arthur Ray from Harmonic Wealth
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PN 104: Love Begins with You
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Oct 09, 2009
Love Begins with You“One
of the strangest delusions believed by many of us is that it is good to
love other people but bad to love yourself. I suggest that the more you
are able to see, love, and accept the one facet of Spirit gazing at you
from the mirror, the more you will be able to love Spirit within
others. If we are the same awareness shining through a billion separate
forms, then all love begins with self-love. For the heart to awaken, it
cannot exclude a single soul, including yourself. If you do not love
yourself, how can you find the space to love others?” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 103: Money & Everyday Enlightenment
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Oct 07, 2009
“If
you associate voluntary poverty with humility, goodness, and
spirituality, then with what do you associate wealth? It is worth
pondering, because what you believe about money will determine in large
part your effectiveness in acquiring it.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 102: Life Is a Series of Moments
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
“No
one feels the same way all the time. Even if you are angry, depressed,
crazy, afraid, or grieving, you’ll have moments when you are
distracted. There are no enlightened people, no nice, bad, smart,
neurotic, or stupid people, either--only people with more (or less)
enlightened, nice, bad, smart, neurotic, or stupid moments.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 101: Emotional Meteorology 101
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Oct 02, 2009
“Of
course, we don’t love painful feelings like anxiety or depression. We
don’t have to love or even like them, but we do have to accept them, as
difficult as that can seem at times. Emotions, no matter how painful
they are, are not the problem. The problem is dropping out of school or
work, putting your family or duties of life on hold until such time as
you can work out your emotional issues. Would you rather feel depressed
while sitting alone in your room trying to figure it all out or feel
depressed while getting your house cleaned or your project completed?
(You may still feel depressed, but you have a cleaner house.)
The heart of accepting your emotions (and, as you’ve seen, of
reclaiming your will) is to do what you need to do despite what you are
feeling. Accept and learn from your feelings, but don’t let them run
your life. By remaining productive during difficult emotional episodes,
you are more likely to improve your emotional state than if you do
nothing but ruminate and wait for sunny skies.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 100: Pain & Suffering
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
“Pain
is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our
psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical
pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance
creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is. If
your spouse or lover leaves you, the amount of stress or suffering each
of you experiences depends upon the meanings each of you places on the
event. If you believe it to be good, that you are not free, you suffer
less; if you believe it is bad, that you are now alone, you suffer
more. The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life
as it unfolds.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 099: Daredevils Are Terrified, Too
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Sep 28, 2009
“Dar
Robinson, one of the greatest modern-day daredevils, was
terrified--practically scared to death--with each and every stunt. His
heart leaped from his chest; he had to consciously control his rapid
breathing; he sweated, he trembled, just like the rest of us--then he
did what he had set out to do. This is what you and I can do in
everyday life.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 098: Carpe Punctum
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Sep 25, 2009
“Most of us have heard the saying “Carpe Diem”--Seize
the day. A valuable reminder to live fully, but not a realistic idea,
since you cannot seize the day. You can seize only the moment--this
moment.
The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum--Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 097: Desired & Undesired Habits
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Sep 23, 2009
“Make
any positive behavior as convenient as possible. To break my habit of
snacking in the evenings, I keep dental floss and a toothbrush in the
downstairs bathroom near the kitchen. Right after dinner I floss and
brush. I’m far less likely to snack, because if I eat something, I have
to floss and brush all over again.
Make any negative behavior as inconvenient as possible. To smoke less,
keep only one pack of cigarettes at home, in a small locked safe under
some luggage in the closet in the garage. You might also put the
television in that same closet, so you take it out only for special
events, and use your old TV time writing that book, painting that
picture, or learning a new language. In this way you replace old
negative routines with new behaviors, pouring new energy into a new
you.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 096: “St. Nike” Was Right
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
“Everything
is easier said than done. But no matter how intelligent or talented you
are, only your actions shape your destiny. To fulfill the promise of
the second gateway, you need to know, and act upon, only three magic
words: Just do it.” ~ Dan Millman from Everyday Enlightenment
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PN 093: Instant Satori
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
“Take
your keys, a piece of fruit, or any handy object, and go outside. Throw
the object up into the air. Staying relaxed and easy, catch it. Be sure
to catch it. Then come back inside, and continue reading this exercise.
Now consider the moment the object was in the air. At that moment you
weren’t thinking of what you’d have for dinner or what you did
yesterday. You weren’t thinking of anything else, either. You may have
been attending to thoughts before you threw it or after you caught it,
but during the throw, you were pure attention, reaching out, waiting
for the object’s descent. In that same moment your emotions were open,
and your body was alert and vitalizd--a moment of satori.” ~ Dan Millman from Body Mind Mastery
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PN 092: Relax & Stay Focused on Constructive Action
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
“Body
mind masters do not deny or repress their feelings but learn to stay
physically relaxed even under stressful situations. Even when feeling
angry, fearful, and sorrowful, breathe evenly and fully. Keep your body
relaxed. You have much more control over your behavior than you do over
your thoughts or emotions so paradoxically the best way to master your
emotions is to let them be, stay relaxed, and focus on constructive
action. So, accept your emotions as natural to you in the moment,
without trying to fix them. Know your purpose or goal--not someone
else’s. And, do whatever you need to reach that goal, whether or not
your emotions or moods help or hinder you.” ~ Dan Millman from Body Mind Mastery
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PN 091: Backing Up to Get a Running Start
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Sep 09, 2009
“Now
that you have a better understanding of the mental mechanisms that
influence your performance, you’ll realize that although we all find
ourselves in slumps occasionally, we don’t need to get stuck in them.
And when you feel like you’re going nowhere or even slipping backward,
you may actually be backing up to get a running start.” ~ Dan Millman from Body Mind Mastery
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PN 090: The Moment of Truth Is NOW!
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Sep 07, 2009
“Freedom
from mental distraction equals power. Olympic champion weightlifters
not only have powerful bodies; they have powerful minds. The same
quality of attention free us, in the moment of truth, from any thought
of self-concept, criticism, or fear. Body mind masters eventually come
to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is
the moment of truth.” ~ Dan Millman from Body Mind Mastery
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PN 089: Rockin’ It Baby-style
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Sep 04, 2009
“If
babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they
might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping,
“Aarggh! Screwed up again!” Fortunately, babies are free of
self-criticism. They just keep practicing.” ~ Dan Millman from Body Mind Mastery
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PN 088: The Fear of Failure
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Sep 02, 2009
“Ultimately,
fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most
feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It
isn’t enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure
and use it... Body mind masters have made peace with failure, treating
it like an old friend playing a practical joke. The greatest inventors,
artists, and athletes have all failed many times. Babe Ruth was the
home run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.” ~ Dan Millman from Body Mind Mastery
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PN 087: Integrated Feminine/Masculine Compassion
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
“I
am always compassionate, but sometimes in a very feminine, gentle way,
nurturing and supportive, and sometimes in a very masculine way,
ruthless and decisive. But I always have in my arsenal what is
necessary to get the job done. I am totally integrated. There’s no need
to become integrated; I am Integrated Feminine/Masculine Compassion.
Another name for me is Big Heart.” ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel from Big Mind · Big Heart
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PN 086: A Dysfunctional Company
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Aug 28, 2009
“Each
of us has innumerable voices, or aspects, within us. To get a clearer
picture of how they operate, think of yourself for a moment as a large
corporation with many, many employees. How many? Nobody knows. It’s a
little bizarre. We went out and randomly hired all these folks for our
company, and we neglected to tell them what their jobs were. We also
neglected to tell them their titles or job descriptions. If that
weren’t bad enough, we didn’t even tell them who they work for, what
the name of the company is, and who the boss is. Then we said, go to
work. Now what kind of company is that?” ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel from Big Mind · Big Heart
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PN 085: The Temple Without Walls
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
“We’re
at the point in our evolution that we all have to become conscious.
This is a time of revolution. There’s no holding back. So I’m about
tearing down the monastery walls and seeing the whole world as the
monastery, as the practice, as the spiritual temple. What we’re all
working on is this very being, this very life. This is the temple, it
has no walls.” ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel from Big Mind · Big Heart
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PN 084: Dukkha & Sukkha
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
“What
we do naturally is we cling, we grasp, we hold on to. We are not
functioning freely, not free, because we’re stuck. Buddha observed this
tendency and gave it a name. He said when the mind is stuck, you’re in dukkha
(usually translated from the Sanskrit as suffering). Dukkha literally
means a wheel whose hub doesn’t move. So what kind of a wheel do you
have? A useless, dysfunctional wheel. What good is a wheel if it
doesn’t move?
What Buddha discovered and taught was to free up the wheel. He called it sukkha, a liberated wheel, a freed-up wheel. That means liberation, nirvana.” ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel from Big Mind · Big Heart
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PN 083: A Maserati Stuck in First Gear
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Aug 21, 2009
“Being
able to shift perspectives is like having a freely functioning vehicle.
If a car is stuck in any gear, what you’ve got is a dysfunctional car.
Even if it’s a Maserati, if you’re stuck in first gear, or you’re stuck
in reverse, no matter what gear you’re stuck in, it’s dysfunctional.
But the moment you have fluidity and movement and you’re able to shift
up or down or into reverse, or whatever you need to do, you’ve got a
functional vehicle.” ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel from Big Mind · Big Heart
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PN 082: Right View
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Aug 19, 2009
“So
we end up with what the Buddha taught in his first teaching, which is
called the Eightfold Path, when he said, â€have Right View.’ Right View
is having no particular, fixed view, which means seeing that all views
are limited, that no particular view is the only view. They’re all
restricted, they’re all limited, they’re all fragmented. Actually the
right view is no view.” ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel from Big Mind · Big Heart
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PN 081: Get Clear and Watch Things Happen
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
“Sir,
life is very strange. The moment you are very clear about what you want
to do, things happen. Life comes to your aid--a friend, a relation, a
teacher, a grandmother, somebody helps you. But if you are afraid to
try because your father may turn you out, then you are lost. Life never
comes to the aid of those who merely yield to some demand out of fear.
But if you say, “This is what I really want to do and I am going to
pursue it,” then you will find that something miraculous takes place.
You may have to go hungry, struggle to get through, but you will be a
worthwhile human being, not a mere copy, and that is the miracle of it.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 080: The Real Student
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Aug 14, 2009
“Do
you know what it means to learn? When you are really learning you are
learning throughout your life and there is no one special teacher to
learn from. Then everything teaches you--a deaf leaf, a bird in flight,
a smell, a tear, the rich and the poor, those who are crying, the smile
of a woman, the haughtiness of a man. You learn from everything,
therefore there is no guide, no philosopher, no guru. Life itself is
your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 079: The Roots of a Problem
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Aug 12, 2009
“Your
mind is like rich soil, and if given sufficient time any problem that
comes along takes root like a weed, and then you have the trouble of
pulling it out; but if you do not give the problem sufficient time to
take root, then it has no place to grow and it will whither away.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 078: Joy Has No Contradictions
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Aug 10, 2009
“Suppose
you want to study painting because to paint is the joy of your life,
and your father says that you must become a lawyer or a business man,
otherwise he will cut you off and not pay for your education; there is
then a contradiction in you, is there not? Now, how are you going to
remove that inner contradiction, to be free of the struggle and the
pain of it? As long as you are caught in self-contradiction you cannot
think; so you must remove the contradiction, you must do one thing or
the other. Which will it be? Will you yield to your father? If you do,
it means that you have put away your joy, you have wed something which
you do not love; and will that resolve the contradiction? Whereas, if
you withstand your father, if you say, “Sorry, I don’t care if I have
to beg, starve, I am going to paint,” then there is no contradiction;
then being and doing are simultaneous, because you know what you want
to do and you do it with your whole heart. But if you become a lawyer
or a business man while inside you are burning to be a painter, then
for the rest of your life you will be a dull, weary human being living
in torment, in frustration, in misery, being destroyed and destroying
others.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 077: The Key: To Love What You Do
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Aug 07, 2009
“Can
you and I, who are simple, ordinary people, live creatively in this
world without the drive of ambition which shows itself in various ways
as the desire for power, position? You will find the right answer when
you love what you are doing. If you are an engineer merely because you
must earn a livelihood, or because your father or society expects it of
you, that is another form of compulsion; and compulsion in any form
creates a contradiction, a conflict. Whereas, if you really love to be
an engineer, or a scientist, or if you can plant a tree, or paint a
picture, or write a poem, not to gain recognition but just because you
love to do it, then you will find that you never need to compete with
another. I think this is the real key: to love what you do.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 076: Hobgoblins Behind Walls
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Aug 05, 2009
“A
mind which says, “I have taken a vow to be something and I am going to
be that for the rest of my life” is called consistent; but it is really
a most stupid mind, because it has come to a conclusion and it is
living according to that conclusion. It is like a man building a wall
around himself and letting life go by.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 075: To Go Far You Must Begin Near
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Aug 03, 2009
“To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.” ~ Krishnamurti from Think on These Things
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PN 074: 99% Is a Bitch; 100% Is a Breeze
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jul 31, 2009
“Successful
people adhere to the “no exceptions rule” when it comes to their daily
disciplines. Once you make a 100% commitment to something, there are no
exceptions. It’s a done deal. Nonnegotiable. Case closed! Over and out.” ~ Jack Canfield from The Success Principles
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PN 073: Make an “I Want” List
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jul 29, 2009
“One
of the easiest ways to begin clarifying what you truly want is to make
a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30
things you want to be before you die. This is a great way to get the
ball rolling.” ~ Jack Canfield from The Success Principles
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PN 072: Principle #2: Be Clear Why You’re Here
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
“You
see, without a purpose in life, it’s easy to get sidetracked on your
life’s journey. It’s easy to wander and drift, accomplishing little.
But with a purpose, everything in life seems to fall into place. To be
“on purpose” means you’re doing what you love to do, doing what you’re
good at and accomplishing what’s important to you. When you truly are
on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally
gravitate toward you. The world benefits, too, because when you act in
alignment with your true life purpose, all of your actions
automatically serve others.” ~ Jack Canfield from The Success Principles
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PN 071: Principle #1: Take 100% Responsibility
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jul 20, 2009
“It
is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you
haven’t created the life and results you want, for it is you who
creates the quality of the life you lead and the results you produce.
You--no one else! To achieve major success in life--to achieve those
things that are most important to you--you must assume 100%
responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.” ~ Jack Canfield from The Success Principles
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PN 070: Do Your Own Push-Ups
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jul 17, 2009
“As
motivational philosopher Jim Rohn has so aptly put it, “You can’t hire
someone else to do your push-ups for you.” You must do them yourself if
you are to get any value out of them. Whether it is exercising,
stretching, meditating, reading, studying, learning a new language,
creating a mastermind group, setting measurable goals, visualizing
success, repeating affirmations, or practicing a new skill, you are
going to have to do it. No one else can do these things for you. I will
give you the road map, but you will have to drive the car. I will teach
you the principles, but you will have to apply them. If you choose to
put in the effort, I promise you the rewards will be well worth it.” ~ Jack Canfield from The Success Principles
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PN 069: Positive Rituals
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jul 15, 2009
“We
use the word “ritual” purposefully to emphasize the notion of a
carefully defined, highly structured behavior. In contrast to will and
discipline, which require pushing yourself to a particular behavior, a
ritual pulls at you. Think of something as simple as brushing your
teeth. It is not something that you ordinarily have to remind yourself
to do. Brushing your teeth is something to which you feel consistently
drawn, compelled by its clear health value. You do it largely on
automatic pilot, without much conscious effort or intention. The power
of rituals is that they insure that we use as little conscious energy
as possible where it is not absolutely necessary, leaving us free to
strategically focus the energy available to us in creative, enriching
ways.” ~ Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz from The Power of Full Engagement
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PN 068: Intrinsic (vs. Extrinsic) Purpose
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jul 13, 2009
“Purpose also becomes a more powerful source of energy when it moves from being externally to internally motivated. Extrinsic
motivation reflects the desire to get more of something that we don’t
feel we have enough of: money, approval, social standing, power or even
love. “Intrinsic” motivation grows out of the desire to engage in an
activity because we value it for the inherent satisfaction it provides.
Researchers have long found that intrinsic motivation tends to prompt
more sustaining energy. A study conducted by the University of
Rochester’s Human Motivation Research Group found, for example, that
people whose motivation was authentic—defined as
“self-authored”—exhibited more interest, excitement and confidence, as
well as greater persistence, creativity and performance than a control
group of subjects who were motivated largely by external demands and
rewards.” ~ Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz from The Power of Full Engagement
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PN 067: “How Am I THAT?”
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jul 10, 2009
“Difficult
and unpleasant as it may be to accept, we often feel most hostile to
those who remind us of aspects of ourselves that we prefer not to see.
“Ask someone to give a description of the personality type which he
finds most despicable, most unbearable and hateful, and most impossible
to get along with,” writes Edward Whitmont, “and he will produce a
description of his own repressed characteristics….These very qualities
are so unacceptable to him precisely because they represent his own
repressed side; only that which we cannot accept within ourselves do we
find impossible to live with in others.” Think for a moment of someone
you actively dislike. What quality in that person do you find most
objectionable? Now ask yourself, “How am I that?” ~ Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz from The Power of Full Engagement
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PN 066: To Be Fully Engaged Emotionally
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, J 08,
ul 14:00:00 2009, -0000
“To be fully engaged emotionally requires celebrating what the Stoic philosophers called anacoluthia—the
mutual entailment of the virtues. By this notion, no virtue is a virtue
by itself. Rather, all virtues are entailed. Honesty without
compassion, for example, becomes cruelty.” ~ Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz from The Power of Full Engagement
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PN 065: Incline Your Mind Toward Joy
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jun 19, 2009
“ One evening a Cherokee elder
told his grandson about the battle that goes on inside of people. He
said, “My son, the battle is between the two â€wolves’ that live
inside us all. One is Unhappiness. It is fear, worry, anger,
jealousy, sorrow, self-pity, resentment, and inferiority. The other
is Happiness. It is joy, love, hope, serenity, kindness, generosity,
truth, and compassion.”The
grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather, “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply
replied, “The one you feed.” ~ Marci Shimoff from Happy
for No Reason
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PN 064: Velcro vs. Teflon
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jun 17, 2009
“ We’re still hard-wired the
same way: we pay more attention to the negative than to the positive.
As the psychologist and brain researcher Dr. Rick Hanson explained to
me during our interview, our brains are “Velcro for negativity and
Teflon for positivity.” Our negative experiences stick to us like
Velcro, while our positive experiences slide right off us like
Teflon. In fact, researchers have found that it takes numerous
positive experiences to overcome a single negative one!
Unfortunately, this wiring turns out to be disastrous for our
happiness.” ~ Marci Shimoff from Happy
for No Reason
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PN 063: Scary Mind Math & ANTs
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jun 15, 2009
“ Our minds--made up of our
thoughts, beliefs, and self-talk--are always “on.” According to
scientists, we have about 60,000 thoughts a day. That’s one
thought per second during every waking hour.
No wonder we’re so tired at the end of the day!And
what’s even more startling is that of those 60,000 thoughts, 95
percent are the same thoughts you had yesterday, and the day before,
and the day before that. Your mind is like a record player playing
the same record over and over again... Talk about being stuck in a
rut...Still, that
wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the next statistic: for the
average person, 80 percent of those habitual thoughts are negative.
That means that every day most people have more than 45,000 negative
thoughts... Dr. Daniel Amen, a world-renowned psychiatrist and brain
imaging specialist, calls them automatic negative thoughts, or ANTs.”
~ Marci Shimoff from Happy
for No Reason
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PN 062: Life, Liberty and the *Practice* of Happiness
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jun 12, 2009
“ Back in Jefferson’s day,
he explained, the common usage of the word “pursue” was not “to
chase after.” In 1776, to pursue something meant to practice that
activity, to do it regularly, to make a habit of it. What a
difference a definition makes! Thomas Jefferson, our wise Founding
Father, meant that we all had the right to practice happiness, not
chase after it--which isn’t very productive anyway. So let’s
stop pursuing happiness and start practicing it. We do that by
practicing new habits.” ~ Marci Shimoff from Happy
for No Reason
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PN 061: What’s Your Happiness Set-Point?
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jun 10, 2009
“ Researchers have found that
no matter what happens to
you in life, you tend to
return to a fixed range of happiness. Like your weight set-point,
which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness
set-point will remain the same unless
you make a concerted effort to change it
.” ~ Marci Shimoff from Happy
for No Reason
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PN 060: Find and Fully Use Your Gifts!
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jun 08, 2009
“On Judgment Day, Mr. Lewin
said, God will not ask, “Why were you not Moses?” He will ask,
“Why were you not Sam Lewin?” The goal in life is not to attain
some imaginary ideal; it is to ď¬nd and fully use our own gifts.”
~ Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 059: Worry
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jun 05, 2009
“Worrying is usually a sign
that we’re Upper-Limiting. It is usually not a sign that we’re
thinking about something useful. The crucial sign that we’re
worrying unnecessarily is when we’re worrying about something we
have no control over. Worrying is useful only if it concerns a topic
we can actually do something about, and if it leads to our taking
positive action right away. All other worry is just Upper Limit
noise, designed by our unconscious to keep us safely within our Zone
of Excellence or Zone of Competence.” ~ Gay Hendricks from
The Big
Leap
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PN 058: Sweaty Ten-Minute Conversations
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jun 03, 2009
“Behind every communication
problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation you don’t want to have.
However, the moment you work up the courage to have it, you collect
an instant reward in relief as well as open up a flow of
communication that will allow you to resolve the situation.”
~ Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 057: Breakthroughs, Stabilization and Integration
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
“I explained that while
breakthroughs are important and thrilling, it’s the subsequent
stabilization and integration of the breakthrough into daily life
that really allow the changes to be permanent.” ~ Gay
Hendricks from The
Big LeapI love the whole business of breakthroughs followed by
stabilization and then integration. Ken Wilber describes it as
“states and stages” and it’s a REALLY important concept to
embrace and bring into our lives. (See my Notes
on Wilber for a longer discussion!)The basic idea is very simple and very powerful when appreciated
and applied: We often have moments of inspiration or breakthroughs or
“state experiences” when we see the world in a new, revolutionary
way. Those experiences are, of course, awesome. :)And... they’re only really meaningful if, after the initial buzz
wears off, we have the discipline and the diligence and the patience
and the persistence (and playfulness!) to create the structures in
our lives that enable that breakthrough to stabilize and integrate
and become a new way of being or “stage of our development.” Make
sense? So, how you can INTEGRATE some of your “Aha!”
breakthroughs into your life?!?This is one of the 1,000+ Big Ideas we share in our 6-page PDF and
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PN 056: Breathe Into Your Fear
Author: Brian Johnson
Sat, May 30, 2009
“There’s only one way to get
through the fog of fear, and that’s to transform it into the
clarity of exhilaration. One of the greatest pieces of wisdom I’ve
ever heard comes from Fritz Perls, MD, the psychiatrist and founder
of Gestalt therapy. He said, “Fear is excitement without the
breath.” Here’s what this intriguing statement means: the very
same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any
fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.
On the other hand, excitement turns into fear quickly if you hold
your breath. When scared, most of us have a tendency to try to get
rid of the feeling. We think we can get rid of it by denying or
ignoring it, and we use holding our breath as a physical tool of
denial.” ~ Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 055: Waving to Our Fears
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, May 27, 2009
“Unless you’re very lucky or
very enlightened, you’re likely to hear those nattering voices and
feel those nagging fears within you. They’re part of the deal. I
won’t try to talk you out of them, and you shouldn’t try to talk
yourself out of them, either. Just notice the voices and feel the
fears. That’s all you need to do with them. You don’t need to rid
yourself of them. Where would they go, anyway? All you need to do is
acknowledge them, wave to them, let them know you’re aware of them.
Then get busy learning to live in your Zone of Genius.” ~
Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 054: Our Thermostats Are Set Too Low
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, May 25, 2009
“Each of us has an inner
thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and
creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner
thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves,
causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel
secure...Unfortunately, our thermostat setting usually gets
programmed in early childhood, before we can think for ourselves.
Once programmed, our Upper Limit thermostat setting holds us back
from enjoying all the love, financial abundance, and creativity
that’s rightfully ours. It keeps us in our Zone of Competence or at
best our Zone of Excellence. It prevents us from living in the
ultimate destination of the journey—our Zone of Genius.” ~
Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 053: A Handshake Deal with the Universe
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, May 22, 2009
“You know deep inside you that
you will never be fully satisfied until you have anchored yourself in
your Zone of Genius. To do less would be to hold back, and long ago
you made a handshake deal with the universe that you wouldn’t do
that. The seductive comforts of success, though, can lull us into
accepting the status quo. In that state of comfort, it’s easy to
forget the deal you made with the universe to use yourself fully.”
~ Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 052: Are You Willing to Feel Good All the Time?
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, May 20, 2009
“Am I willing to feel good and
have my life go well all the time? At ď¬rst glance, you might ask
who wouldn’t say yes to all of these questions. Well, for many of
us, the idea of all of this positive emotion seems far-fetched to
begin with. It is easy for us to just assume that with the positive
comes the negative. To that I say, “Why not get willing, and see
what happens?” We humans have a long and wonderful history of
transcending our beliefs about what’s possible. In the early days
of the steam-powered train, learned scientists urged capping the
speed at thirty miles per hour because they believed that the human
body exploded at speeds greater than that. Finally some brave people
risked going beyond that limiting belief and found that they did not
explode. I think we’re approximately at that same stage of
development with regard to our ability to feel good and have our
lives go well.” ~ Gay Hendricks from The
Big Leap
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PN 051: Should to Could
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, May 18, 2009
“I
believe that should
is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use
should,
we are, in effect, saying “wrong.” Either we are
wrong or we were
wrong or we are going
to be
wrong. I don’t think we need more wrongs in our life. We need to
have more freedom of choice. I would like to take the word should
and remove it from the vocabulary forever. I’d replace it with the
word could.
Could
gives us a choice, and we are never wrong.”
~ Louise L. Hay from You
Can Heal Your Life
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PN 050: Cleaning Our Mental House
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, May 15, 2009
“If
you want to clean a room thoroughly, you will pick up and examine
everything in it. Some things you will look at with love, and you
will dust them or polish them to give them new beauty. Some things
you will see that need refinishing or repair, and you will make a
note to do that. Some things will never serve you again, and it
becomes time to let those things go. Old magazines and newspapers and
dirty paper plates can be dropped into the wastebasket very calmly.
There is no need to get angry in order to clean the room.
It
is the same thing when we are cleaning our mental house. There is no
need to get angry just because some of the beliefs in it are ready to
be tossed out. Let them go as easily as you would scrape bits of food
into the trash after a meal. Would you really dig into yesterday’s
garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental
garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences? If a thought or belief
does not serve you, let it go!”
~ Louise L. Hay from You
Can Heal Your Life
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PN 049: Learning How to Walk or Talk
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, May 13, 2009
“When
a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and
praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and
eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself
when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to
learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a
“failure”?” ~ Louise L. Hay
from You
Can Heal Your Life
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PN 048: Love Your Bills
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, May 11, 2009
“It
is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our
bills. Many people treat bills as punishments to be avoided if
possible. A bill is an acknowledgment of our ability to pay. The
creditor assumes you are affluent enough and gives you the service or
the product first. I bless with love each and every bill that comes
into my home. I bless with love and stamp a small kiss on each and
every check I write. If you pay with resentment, money has a hard
time coming back to you. If you pay with love and joy, you open the
free-flowing channel of abundance. Treat money as a friend, not as
something you wad up and crush into your pocket.”
~ Louise L. Hay from You
Can Heal Your Life
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PN 047: Reading the Thoughts of God
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, May 06, 2009
“You can never become a great
man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is
impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to
perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their
proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them
cannot read the thoughts of God.” ~ Wallace
D. Wattles fromThe
Science of Being Great
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PN 046: Close Your Ears & Dream On!
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, May 04, 2009
“Close your ears to all
adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a
dreamer. Dream on.” ~ Wallace
D. Wattles fromThe
Science of Being Great
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PN 045: Everyone Can Become Great
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, May 01, 2009
“It is within the power of
every man to become great.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles from The
Science of Being Great
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PN 044: Being Helped by Hidden Hands
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Apr 15, 2009
Moyers: “Do you ever
have this sense when you are following your bliss, as I have at
moments, of being helped by hidden hands?”Campbell: “All the
time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on
me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time--namely, that
if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that
has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you
ought to be living is the one you are living. When you see that, you
begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they
open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be
afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going
to be.” ~Joseph
Campbell fromThe
Power of Myth
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PN 043: Do You Think I Can Do That?
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Apr 13, 2009
“When I taught in a boy’s
prep school, I used to talk to the boys who were trying to make up
their minds as to what their careers were going to be. A boy would
come to me and ask, “Do you think I can do this? Do you think I can
do that? Do you think I can be a writer?” “Oh,” I would say, “I
don’t know. Can you endure ten years of disappointment with nobody
responding to you, or are you thinking that you are going to write a
best seller the first crack? If you have the guts to stay with the
thing you really want, no matter what happens, well, go ahead.”
~ Joseph Campbell fromThe
Power of Myth
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PN 042: Sit in a Room and Read--and Read and Read!
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Apr 10, 2009
Moyers: “How do we know
these things [how experience bliss]?”Campbell: “I’ll tell
you a way, a very nice way. Sit in a room and read--and read and
read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is
brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning
rapture all the time. This realization of life can be a constant
realization in your living. When you find an author who really grabs
you, read everything he has done. Don’t say, “Oh, I want to know
what So-and-so did”--and don’t bother at all with the best-seller
list. Just read what this one author has to give you. And then you
can go read what he had read. And the world opens up in a way that is
consistent with a certain point of view. But when you go from one
author to another, you may be able to tell us the date when each
wrote such and such a poem--but he hasn’t said anything to you.”
~ Joseph Campbell fromThe
Power of Myth
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PN 041: Sat, Chit, Ananda
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Apr 08, 2009
“Now, I came to this idea of
bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of
the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the
jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: Sat, Chit, Ananda.
The word “Sat” means being. “Chit” means consciousness.
“Ananda” means bliss or rapture. I thought, “I don’t know
whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don’t
know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I
do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that
will bring me both my consciousness and my being.” I think it
worked.” ~ Joseph Campbell from The
Power of Myth
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PN 040: The Success Instinct
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Apr 06, 2009
“A squirrel does not have to
be taught how to gather nuts. Nor does it need to learn that it
should store them for winter. A squirrel born in the spring has never
experienced winter. Yet in the fall of the year it can be observed
busily storing nuts to be eaten during the winter months when there
will be no food to be gathered. A bird does not need to take lessons
in nest-building. Nor does it need to take courses in navigation. Yet
birds do navigate thousands of miles, sometimes over open sea. They
have no newspapers or TV to give them weather reports, no books
written by explorer or pioneer birds to map out for them the warm
areas of the earth. Nonetheless the bird “knows” when cold
weather is imminent and the exact location of a warm climate even
though it may be thousands of miles away.” ~ Maxwell
Maltz from Psycho-Cynernetics
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PN 039: What’re Your Goals?!?
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Apr 03, 2009
“We are engineered as
goal-seeking mechanisms. We are built that way. When we have no
personal goal which we are interested in and which “means
something” to us, we are apt to “go around in circles,” feel
“lost” and find life itself “aimless,” and “purposeless.”
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals,
and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without
obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. People who say that life
is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no
personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription:
Get yourself a goal worth working for.” ~ Maxwell
Maltz from Psycho-Cynernetics
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PN 038: Wear the Habit of Happiness
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Apr 01, 2009
“Our self-image and our habits
tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the
other. The word “habit” originally meant a garment or clothing...
Our habits are literally garments worn by our personalities. They are
not accidental, or happenstance. We have them because they
fit us. They are
consistent with our self-image and our entire personality pattern.
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits,
our self-image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new
pattern.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
from Psycho-Cynernetics
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PN 037: Dehypnotize Yourself
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
“It is no exaggeration to say
that every human being is hypnotized to some extent, either by ideas
he has uncritically accepted from others, or ideas he has repeated to
himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have
exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas
implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional
hypnotist.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
from Psycho-Cynernetics
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PN 036: Seneca on Pleasures & Punishments
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
“So
called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but
punishments.” ~ Seneca
from Letters
from a Stoic
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PN 035: Seneca on Your Ideal State
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Mar 25, 2009
“Man’s
ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which
he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very
easy—that he live in accordance with his own nature.”
~Seneca from Letters
from a Stoic
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PN 034: Seneca on the Importance of Focus
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
“To
be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
~ Seneca from Letters
from a Stoic
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PN 033: The Bhagavad Gita on Fire & Smoke
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Mar 20, 2009
“It
is better to perform one’s own duties imperfectly than to master
the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with,
a person never comes to grief. No one should abandon duties because
he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded
by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.” ~ Krishna
from The
Bhagavad Gita
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PN 032: The Bhagavad Gita on Living Your Dharma
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Mar 18, 2009
“It
is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the
dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own
dharma. But competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and
insecurity.” ~
Krishna from The
Bhagavad Gita
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PN 031: Strengthen Your Mind
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
“Weak
minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone
can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you
want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would
your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner
turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.” ~ Robin
Sharma from The
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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PN 030: Rise with the Sun
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Mar 13, 2009
“Do
you know why most people sleep so much?”“Why?”“Because
they really don’t have anything else to do. Those who rise with the
sun all have one thing in common.”“Insanity?”“Very
funny. No, they all have a purpose that fans the flames of their
inner potential.”~ Robin
Sharma from The
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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PN 029: The Secret of Happiness
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Mar 11, 2009
“Alright,
the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do
and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.”
~ Robin
Sharma from The
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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PN 028: Robin Sharma on Blueprinting
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Mar 09, 2009
“All
I’m saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and
soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are
always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and
only then, in reality. I call this process â€blueprinting’ because
anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint
in your inner world.” ~ Robin
Sharma from The
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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PN 027: Tough Economy? Invest In Yourself
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Mar 06, 2009
“Six
hundred and seventy-two hours of inner work to profoundly improve
every waking moment of the rest of your life is quite a bargain,
don’t you think? Investing in yourself is the best investment you
will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve
the lives of all those around you.” ~ Robin Sharma
from The
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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PN 026: Wanna Get Rich? Be Persistent
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Mar 04, 2009
“The
majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes
overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune.
A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal.
There may be no heroic connotation to the word “persistence,” but
the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
~ Napoleon Hill from Think
and Grow Rich
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PN 025: First Plan Fail? Try Another!
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
“If
the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it
with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn
with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work.
Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with
failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans
to take the place of those which fail.” ~ Napoleon
Hill from Think
and Grow Rich
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PN 024: Abraham Maslow Says: “Know Thyself!”
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Feb 27, 2009
According to Abraham Maslow, whereas the average individuals
“often have not the slightest idea
of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are,”
self-actualizing individuals have “superior
awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective
reactions in general.”
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PN 023: No One’s Perfect (not even you! :)
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Feb 25, 2009
“There
are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very
good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers,
sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do
not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be
boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid
disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our
illusions about it.” ~ Abraham
Maslow from Motivation
and Personality
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PN 022: Maslow on Growth & Safety
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Feb 23, 2009
Abraham Maslow said that in any given moment we have two options:
to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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PN 021: Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizer
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Feb 20, 2009
“Musicians
must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to
be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be,
they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may
call self-actualization... It refers to man’s desire for
self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually
in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of
becoming.” ~ Abraham Maslow from Motivation
and Personality
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PN 020: The (Toltec) Warrior’s Struggle
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Feb 18, 2009
“To
be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather
an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our
lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is
born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.” ~ Carlos Castaneda from The Wheel of Time
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PN 019: Buddha Says: Little by Little
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Feb 16, 2009
“Little
by little a person become evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of
water…Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled
by drops of water.” ~ Buddha from The Dhammapada
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PN 018: Get Tantric, Burn the Ships & Get Rich
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Feb 13, 2009
“A
long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it
necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the
battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe,
whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats,
sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then
gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing the
men before the first battle, he said, “You see the boats going up in
smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores unless we win! We
now have no choice—we win—or we perish!” They won.Every
person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships
and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of
maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win,
essential to success.” ~ Napoleon Hill from Think and Grow Rich
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PN 017: Getting Rich & The Word Impossible
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Feb 11, 2009
“One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word “impossible.” He knows all the rules which will not work. He knows all the things which cannot be done. This book was written for those who seek the rules which have made others successful, and are willilng to stake everything on those rules.” ~ Napoleon Hill from Think and Grow Rich
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PN 016: Abraham-Hicks on Telling a New Story
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Feb 09, 2009
“You
have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be
and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.”
~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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PN 015: Abraham Hicks on The Reality of Your Life
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Feb 06, 2009
“People
talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we
want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you
go to the gas station—your gas gauge is on empty—do you go to the
gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this
happen? [Fun] Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your
head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come
to. [Fun] I’m finished. I’ve lived all of this life, and look
where I am.” Or do you just fill up.” ~ Esther and Jerry
Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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PN 014: Abraham Hicks on Your Most Valuable Skill
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Feb 04, 2009
“The
most valuable skill that you could ever develop is the skill of
directing your thoughts toward what you want--to be adept at quickly
evaluating all situations and then quickly coming to the conclusion
of what you most want--and then giving your undivided attention to
that.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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PN 013: Abraham Hicks: Do What You Love
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
“There
is no better way to earn money that to do the things that you love to
do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It
is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows, but
only your attitude toward money.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from
Money, and the Law of Attraction
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PN 012: Abraham Hicks on Your Lifetime Career
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jan 30, 2009
“If
we were talking to you on your first day of physical experience, we
could be of great advantage to you because we would say, “Welcome
to planet Earth. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have. And
your work here—your lifetime career—is to seek joy.” ~
Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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PN 011: Money Problems? It’s a Shortage of Connection
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jan 28, 2009
“Shortage
of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem.
Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the
heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing.”
~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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PN 010: Rubber Bands and Your Ideals
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jan 26, 2009
"The way you create any outcome
in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the
same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your
current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing
this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This
tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any
outcome. It's as natural and powerful as the force of gravity."
~ David Emerald from The
Power of TED*
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PN 009: Feeling Afraid, or Like You're at a Chasm? Jump!
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jan 23, 2009
"A bit of advice given to a
young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go
the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It's not as wide
as you think."" ~ Joseph Campbell from A
Joseph Campbell Companion
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PN 008: Sizes: You vs. Your Problems
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jan 21, 2009
"If you have a big problem in
your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!"
~ T. Harv Eker from Secrets
of the Millionaire Mind
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PN 007: (Emotional) Fuel Gauges
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jan 19, 2009
"When the fuel gauge on your
vehicle indicates that the tank is empty, you do not criticize the
indicator. You receive the information that it has offered you, and
you do something about adding more fuel to your tank. Similarly, a
negative feeling is an indicator that your current choice of thoughts
has you offering a vibration that is so out of harmony with your
Source Energy that you are currently disallowing your full connection
to that Energy Stream. (You could say your tank is reaching empty.)
Your emotions do not create, but they do indicate what you are
currently attracting. If your emotions are helping you know that your
choice of thoughts is not taking you in the direction that you desire
to go, then do something about that: Replenish your connection by
choosing better-feeling thoughts." ~ Esther &
Jerry Hicks from Ask
and It Is Given
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PN 006: Your Bucket of Fish
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jan 16, 2009
"Your purpose is to act on the
resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have
to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract
a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul." ~
Russell Simmons from Do
You!
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PN 005: Why Not Be a Little (or a Lot :) Unreasonable?!?
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jan 14, 2009
"Everything you want should be
yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the
social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy
and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is
appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not)
have for achievement or service to others. If you don't aim for it
all, you'll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know
what you want." ~ Richard Koch from The
80/20 Principle
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PN 004: "Overachieve" With a "Trusting Mindset"!
Author: Brian Johnson
Mon, Jan 12, 2009
"To be sure, great performers
are well trained, experienced, smart, and in some cases, divinely
talented. But the way their brains work during a performance is a lot
more like a squirrel's than like Einstein's. Like squirrels, the best
in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning
their abilities—they flat out trust their skills, which is why we
call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."
Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates great
performers from the rest of the pack." ~ Dr. John Eliot
from Overachievement
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PN 003: If You Can Dream It, It's Yours
Author: Brian Johnson
Fri, Jan 09, 2009
"There's nothing capricious in
nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its
gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels
it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from The
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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PN 002: Conscious Affluence
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Jan 07, 2009
“The word affluence is an
overworked word in our time, usually implying cars and houses and
baubles of all kinds. Its literal meaning is "an abundant flow,"
and not things at all. When we are consciously centered in the
universal flow, we experience inner direction and the unfoldment of
creative activity. Things come too, but prosperity is not just having
things. It is the consciousness that attracts things." ~
Eric Butterworth from Spiritual
Economics
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PN 001: thinkArete.theManifesto
Author: Brian Johnson
Wed, Dec 31, 2008
What would you do if you weren't afraid? OK... So, uh, what *exactly* are you waiting for?!?
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