"Your
work in life must be your religion, whatever your occupation
may be."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"There is no greater scripture than nature, for nature is life itself."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or un-happiness we experience."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"Each individual composes the music of his own life; if he injures another
he breaks the harmony and there is discord in the melody of his life."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"Our thoughts have prepared us for the happiness or unhappiness we experience."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"Man must first create peace in himself if he desires to see peace in the
world; for lacking peace within, no effort of his can bring any result."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"It is not the solid wood that can become a flute, it is the empty reed."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"The deeper your prayers echo in your own consciousness, the more audible
they are to God."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"He who can be detached enough to keep his eyes open to all those whom circumstances
have placed about him, and see in what way he can be of help to them, he it is
who becomes rich - he inherits the kingdom of God."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"Every
being has a definite vocation and his vocation is the light that
illuminates his life. The man who disregards his vocation is
as a lamp unlit."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"Man's whole conduct in life depends upon what he holds in his thought."
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you
are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving
and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."
Thomas
Dreier
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude
towards them."
Saint-Exupery,
The Wisdom of the Sands
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labours of life reduce themselves."
Edwin
Way Teale, Circle of Seasons (1953)
"If you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with a
mosquito in the room."
Anita
Roddick
"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."
Bible,
Proverbs 23:7
"We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather
as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense
that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function
in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment."
Aaron
Antonovsky, Unraveling The Mystery of Health:
How People Manage Stress and Stay Well.
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about
things which are beyond the power of our will."
Epictetus
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in
advance of the event."
Brian
Tracy
(Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman)
"They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too
heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences
as you go through life."
Warren
Buffett
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything
outside ourselves will affect us."
Stephen
Covey
"Forgiveness grows out of the wisdom of the heart and forgiveness is the
heart of wisdom. Love for-ever-gives."
Michael
J. Tamura, in "You Are The Answer" Emile
"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure
to stop and smell the flowers."
Walter
Hagen
"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry
David Thoreau
"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you
were meant to do."
Satchel
Paige
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but
by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with
the objects it loves."
Carl
Jung
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything
in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences - all events
are blessings given to us to learn from."
Elizabeth
Kubler-Ross
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only
how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong."
Richard
Buckminster Fuller
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you."
Brian
Tracy
"Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour, even if only
for a few minutes, and if possible moment-to-moment. This is the easiest and
best protection you can have."
Gregg
Braden
Recommended
Reading
The
Field by Lynn McTaggart
Synopsis
A book which gives scientific proof of the paranormal. Psychic activity,
remote viewing, the power of prayer and homoeopathy are all discussed.
The
energy found in the vacuum - or the zero point field - seems
to be the key to all sorts of unexplained phenomena: ESP or remote
viewing, homeopathy, energy medicine, spiritual healing, and
even the homing instincts of animals.
Lynne
McTaggart follows the life and work of disparate physicists,
pioneers in the area where the paranormal meets quantum phys-ics.
From the Publisher
"A
book which, like Capra’s Tao of Physics, explores the latest
offerings from the scientific community who have found an explanation
for the supernatural. It promises to be one of the most successful
popular science books of the year. Will appeal to readers of
Frijof Capra, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Hancock and those interested
in the paranormal, energy medicine, and popular science."
The
Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Synopsis
Despite
its apparent materiality, the universe is actually a kind of
3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram,
a 3-D image projected in space and made with the aid of a laser.
Using
this model, a world-renowned physicist and a Nobel prize winning
neurophysiologist has developed a new description of reality.
It encompasses not only reality as we know it, including hitherto
unexplained phenomena of physics, but is capable of explaining
such occurrences as telepathy, paranormal and out-of-the-body
experiences, "lucid" dreaming and even mystical and
religious traditions such as cosmic unity and miraculous healings.
In
part one, the author explains in simple prose the theory behind
a holograph and its traditional applications to science. In part
two, he shows the panoramic way in which the holographic model
makes sense of the entire range of mystical, spiritual and psychic
experience. Finally, in part three, he explores the implications
for other universes beyond our own.
What the Bleep Do We Know? DVD
Review
"What
the Bleep Do We Know? is a lecture on mysticism and science mixed
into a sort-of narrative. Marlee Matlin stars in the dramatic
thread, about a sourpuss photographer who begins to question
her perceptions.
Interviews
with quantum physics experts and New Age authors are cut into
this story, offering a vaguely convincing (and certainly mind-provoking)
theory about... well, actually, it sounds a lot like the Power
of Positive Thinking, when you get down to it.
Talking
heads (not identified until film's end) include JZ Knight, who
appears in the movie channeling Ramtha, the ancient sage she
claims communicates through her (other speakers are also associated
with Knight's organization). What she says actually makes pretty
good common sense - Ramtha's wiggier notions are not included
- and would be easy to accept were it not being credited to a
35,000-year-old mystic from Atlantis."
Robert
Horton, Amazon.com
Synopsis
Applying
basic principles of quantum physics to human psychology, this
film consists largely of interviews with experts in related fields,
who pose existential questions and answer them with theories
of endless possibilities.
They
explain that reality is only as we define it, that matter is
permeable, and that experiences in life should be appoached as
controllable by the human mind.
Opening
doors to broad ideas - that we could exist simultaneously in
many realities, that we could be in multiple places at once,
that we could observe ourselves from outside our bodies, that
time travels backwards and forwards - experts encourage positive
thinking and open-mindedness.
A
situational plot involving a deaf photographer who is assigned
to work at a Polish wedding serves to illustrate how the theories
discussed could be applied to everyday experiences.
Meanwhile,
intense sequences of computer animation offer illustrations of
outer space, the neural functions in our brains, the way that
various hormones work, and even some funny Jello-like characters
representing chemical reactions in our bodies.
A
raucous soundtrack of 1980s tunes - Robert Palmer's Addicted
to Love, and Animotion's Obsession among them - adds to a jarringly
dynamic score.
For
viewers who gravitate toward New Age theories of enlightenment
and self-knowledge, or those who enjoyed the sci-fi plotlines
of television series like Star Trek, Quantum Leap, And Witchblade,
this film will be a welcome addition to their library.
Stalking The Wild Pendulum by Itzhak Bentov
Reviews
"Dazzles
the imagination and causes you to rethink everything you ever
thought you knew about reality."
Jean
Houston, Author of 'The Possible Human'
A ground-breaking work. Clear, imaginative, and inspiring, it offers
a revolutionary image of the human mind and the universe.
Dr.
Stanislav Grof, Author of Beyond the Brain
Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Synopsis
What
really makes people glad to be alive? What are the inner experiences
that make life worthwhile? For more than two decades Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
studied those states in which people report feelings of concentration
and deep enjoyment.
His
studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying
is 'flow' - a state of concentration so focused that it amounts
to complete absorption in an activity and results in the achievement
of a perfect state of happiness.
Flow
has become the classic work on happiness and a major contribution
to contemporary psychology. It examines such timeless issues
as the challenge of lifelong learning; family relationships;
art, sport and sex as 'flow'; the pain of loneliness; optimal
use of free time; and how to make our lives meaningful.
From the Publisher
This
classic popular psychology title explains how, by altering our
perspective, we can achieve happiness, dispel disharmony and
enter a state of perfect equilibrium – a state of ‘flow’.
'Finding Flow': The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday
Life
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Synopsis
Part
psychological study, part self-help book, ''Finding Flow'' is
a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives.
The
key, according to Csikszentmihalyi, is to challenge ourselves
with tasks requiring a high degree of skill and commitment. Instead
of watching television, play the piano. Transform a routine task
by taking a different approach. In short, learn the joy of complete
engagement.
Though
they appear simple, the lessons in 'Finding Flow' are life-altering.
Part psychological study, part self-help book, 'Finding Flow'
is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our
lives.
Based
on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, 'Finding
Flow' contends that we often walk through our days unaware and
out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes
us constantly bounce between two extremes: during much of the
day we live filled with the anxiety and pressures of our work
and obligations, while during our leisure moments, we tend to
live in passive boredom.
The
key, according to Csikszentmihalyi, is to challenge ourselves
with tasks requiring a high degree of skill and commitment. Instead
of watching television, play the piano. Transform a routine task
by taking a different approach. In short, learn the joy of complete
engagement. Though they appear simple, the lessons in 'Finding
Flow' are life-altering.
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