Birth of a New Human

Transformation is the birth of a new human being, and it begins with speaking the truth about self to yourself. This will open the door to yourself, and when this transformational event happens in the individual, the old and trained conditioned self can die, and a new self can be born. The transformation of the self will bring about a huge mutation of this planet. Transformation of self will birth a new consciousness on earth, and it is this consciousness that will ultimately save us from ourselves.

YOU

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you;

It is when YOU don't understand yourself.

Either

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else;

And for every thing you gain, you lose some thing else.
It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

Presence!

Direct knowledge comes through the participation in the reality that ‘one knows’ and that is called unitive knowledge, the knowledge which illuminates. God has allowed us to know Him through presence so that our knowledge of God is the presence of God in us. Therefore, that knowledge itself burns all otherness, burns all separation and burns all multiplicity from the consciousness of the knower.

Love

Whatever you give to life, it gives you back.

Do not hate any body.

The hatred which comes out from you will some day come back to you.

Love others and love will come back to you.

Find the love factor

Surround yourself with loving, supportive people. Stay away from the dream stealers, the people who would bring you down. Cherish the special people in your life and let them know you cherish them.

Challenge Yourself

Have a clear vision and focus of what you want to achieve and set a time frame. Challenge yourself to be the best you can be at all times. Visualise what you want to accomplish. See it in your mind. Write down your goals, have a plan of action, and never doubt you will be successful.

Drop Your Ego

Self-Transformation

IS The Opening of

Self to Self

Drop your ego at the door and walk through

The "NASRUDDIN" Theory of Neurosis

In his book, "Ennea-type Structures", Claudio Naranjo says that he formulated a theory of neurosis that differs from Freud's libido theory and only partially coincides with the object relations view.
This theory is an existential interpretation of neurosis according to which the bottom line of all psychopathology is the loss of being (i.e. the absence of the direct experience or cognition of being). He calls this the "Nasruddin Theory of Neurosis", in reference to the well known story about Mullah Nasruddin, the famous sufi archetype of the 'wise-idiot'
Once Mullah Nasruddin was on all fours in one of the alleys at the market place looking for the very key to his house. A friend joined him in the search. Only after a long time had elapsed without success did the friend think of asking him "Are you sure that you have lost it here?" To which the Mullah replied " No, I'm sure I lost it at home." "Then why are you looking for it here?" "There is much more light here," explained the Mullah.
The central idea is that we are looking for the key to our liberation, to our ultimate fulfillment, in the wrong places. This error, which has gradually become a well constructed belief system, is the source of our unhappiness.

Action,Knowledge, and Love

There are only three possibilities of relationship with God - the level of action, the level of love and the level of knowledge. On the level of action our duty is to do the right act, to act according to the will of God, to submit ourselves to His will and to sacrifice our own egotistical tendencies for what is good in the ultimate sense. But what brings us to the very courtyard of God, to the very centre of our being, because that immortal self still resides in our heart-centre, is love and of course followed by knowledge. Love and knowledge are the grand paths for this ultimate transformation of the self to reach the proximity of the Divine Self.

We !

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Stephen Covey

Question Mark

The best way to bring focus into your life is to never place a question mark where God has put a period.

Faith

All the village people decided to pray for the rain to come. On the day of prayer, only 1 boy came with an umbrella. That's faith.

The Difference

The only difference between where you are right now, and where you'll be next year at this same time, are the people you meet and the books you read.

Self-transformation

Transformation is going from one form to another. Therefore, in self-transformation the question is: what is the form that self comes from and what is the form that self goes to. There is more than one self in us but we are usually aware and conscious of our self as this ego centre, which has now become ourselves and it is this which has to be transformed. Our ‘I’ ness has to be transformed from the limited, windowless ego which tries to assert itself, to the immortal soul whose windows are open into the infinite and who ultimately resides in the Divine Reality. Transformation therefore, means change from the form of this hardened and solidified ego, which is opaque to light, to the immortal soul, the immortal self, which resides in the proximity of the Divine Reality.

Life Math

If

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is equal to

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26


Hard work

H+A+R+D+W+O+ R+K

8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11= 98%

*

Knowledge

K+N+O+W+L+E+ D+G+E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5=96%

*

Love

L+O+V+E

12+15+22+5=54%

*


Money

M+O+N+E+Y

13+15+14+5+25= 72%

*

Leadership

L+E+A+D+E+R+ S+H+I+P

12+5+1+4+5+18+ 19+9+16=89%

*

To reach the top,we should have:
Attitude

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5=100%

*

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Lee Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Only Once

I expect to pass through this world but once

Any good therefore that I can do

Or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature

Let me do it now.

Let me not defer or neglect it,

For I shall not pass this way again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the New Year

I AM THE NEW YEAR

I am unused, unspotted, without blemish,

I stretch before you three hundred And sixty-five days long.

I will present each day

In its turn, a new leaf

In the book of life

For you to place upon

It your imprint

I AM THE NEW YEAR.

Each hour of every day,

I willGive you sixty minutes that

Have never known the use of man.

White and pure I present them;

It remains for you to fill them

With sixty jeweled seconds of Love, hope, endeavor, patience

And trust in God.

I AM THE NEW YEAR.

I am coming -- But once past, I can Never be recalled,

Make me your best!

Author Unknown

When there is no plan!

Let me share with you a joke I read about New Year’s Resolution of a person. He has two resolutions made that year. The first is to read books and the second is to lose weight (don’t we all have that? ).

Well, here they are:

First Resolution: To read books

1999: I will read at least 20 good books a year.

2000: I will read at least 10 books a year.

2001: I will read 5 books a year.

2002: I will finish one book.

2003: I will read some articles in the newspaper this year.

2004: I will read at least one article this year.

2005: I will try and finish the comics section this year.

Second Resolution: To lose weight

1999: I will get my weight down below 180.

2000: I will watch my calories until I get below 190.

2001: I will follow my new diet religiously until I get below 200.

2002: I will try to develop a realistic attitude about my weight.

2003: I will work out 5 days a week.

2004: I will work out 3 days a week.

2005: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week.

Vision

Have a clear vision and focus on what you want to achieve and set a time frame. Challenge yourself to be the best you can be at all times. Visualize what you want to accomplish. See it in your mind. Write down your goals, have a plan of action, and never doubt you will be successful.

Initiative

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.- Proverb

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.- Benjamin Disraeli

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.- Shira Tehrani

Well done is better than well said.- Benjamin Franklin

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.- Danny Kaye

I received this valuable piece of wisdom from my friend Dan:

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

Appropriateness

Advertizing at the wrong place!

Will

Dialogue!

Emily Dickinson:

Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust."Dissolve" says Death—The Spirit "Sir I have another Trust"—
Death doubts it—Argues from the Ground—The Spirit turns away Just laying off for evidence An Overcoat of Clay.

Delusion....

Albert Einstein :

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affectation for a few people near us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

God, the ARTIST

Let's float in this really inspiring Art of the ARTIST!

Finding Your 'Ness'

I watched a movie a while ago called 'Me, You and Dupree. In the final scene, Dupree is talking about finding your 'ness' and suggests that this is what life is all about. According to him, once you find your 'ness' - the essence of who you are - the rest is easy! Birds, trees, dogs, cats, insects... they don't have to find their 'ness' because they already have it. A bird is a bird, a tree is a tree etc., etc. They are each happy in their birdness, treeness, dogness...Babies and young children still have it. Their baby-ness and child-ness is what makes them so endearing. But being the complex creatures we are, many of us have lost this sense of ourselves somewhere along the way. I think the cause of many of the ills of society - alcoholism, depression, drug abuse, suicide, crimes, self-harm, etc. - can be attributed to the fact that people are feeling a deep need to feed their souls and don't know how to go about it. They are yearning for their 'ness' and are searching in all the wrong places.

So, how do you rediscover the essence of who you are? How do you reconnect with your 'ness' so that you can follow your true path?

Go back to basics. It's inside you and the way to find it is to stop looking and allow the stillness to envelop you. It takes practice and for most of us it's a life long journey. But the journey within is really the only journey worth taking. It leads to your 'ness', your soul, the essence of who you really are... and that's when the journey really begins!

Trail

“ Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace

The Real Meaning Of Peace

There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all.
But when the king looked closely, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest - in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?
"Because," explained the king, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."

Leadership

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

George S. Patton

Broken Heart

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

Count By....

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

Cool Down

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

Star Rain

I just received this beautiful picture from one my friends who is a professional photographer. It shows a starry sky at night and the motion of stars.

I wish I was among the stars!

Turn Your Eyes to Your Heart

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Let's Get This Way

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Let's Start

What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.
Father James Keller