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What Goes Up Will Come Down

This article is about seeing and being able to use the positive in everything. We will start with exploring the foundation of being able to live a fully positive and successful life, what prevents it, and then proceed to more detail about the method. There is no point in discussing how to be successful until we have found and corrected the reasons we are not. If the engine is at full power but the plane is tightly tied to the ground, it will not move. First, we must remove the ropes.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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You Are Nothing More Than A Dust Bunny

Zen is an interesting path. It tells us that nothing exists including our self, that we have no essential reality or even a soul. This can be very confusing if left without deeper study to find its meaning. We are basically an accumulation of thoughts and desires. They make up the essential reality of your individual self. However, it is our thought habits, which keep us separated from discovering our true nature. This conundrum is where many people get stuck, saying that your true self prevents you from discovering itself.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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How To Conquer Feeling Criticized

The way to conquer negative feelings associated with being criticized is based on your interpretation of events. You take things that someone says about you negatively as if you are being criticized, then get depressed, angry or in a bad mood. This is very self centered, all geared towards you thinking and viewing it as if that person is only talking to you and about you.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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How Making Decisions Relates To Depression And Happiness

May 4, 2011 Decision And Depression Scientific studies show that people who feel they have no control over their life are more prone to depression, but people who feel they have control over their life in general are happy and positive. Therefore we can say in a generality that a feeling of lack of control leads to depression.r

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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A Shocking And Disturbing Reality About Low Self-Esteem

People will never change if they think they are alright. This is simply logical, why put in effort to fix what is not broken. We must see and realize that it is NOT alright to accept anything and everything. To accept mediocrity and negativity negates the possibility of progress. This applies to being short changed in a store, or being sold inferior quality products, or inadequate service, right through to the quality of your own character, skills, abilities and self-esteem. Here we will discuss a different view of the plague of low self-esteem.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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Do Our Thoughts Create Events Or, Do Events Create Our Thoughts

This is a question of action and reaction. Do we create events or do the events form our way of thinking, and then once formed, do we influence events. Certainly one thing is clear, if there are negative events, our thoughts will normally become negative. If this continues long enough, it will be difficult to remember which came first, the events or our thoughts. Knowing how to correct the situation becomes almost impossible.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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Aim and Your Essential Nature

Much has been said about the importance of having an aim to give direction to your life for you to progress with your work. If you do not have an aim, nothing in your life can progress. Your aim is the engine which drives the entire vehicle. It is not only having any aim, it is having a correct and appropriate aim for your essential nature.r

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Perpetuation and Termination of Low Self-Esteem

This article is directed towards people with low self-esteem and so is one sided to that view. A child is born very intelligent with an excellent learning capacity. This is based on the fact of how quickly a child learns to speak possibly several languages, walk, etc. The child is directly or indirectly told they are worthless or put down in some way. You are limited, only a child, can’t do this or that. You will eat when I tell you, sleep when I tell you. You have no ability to act or decide for yourself. You are trained to be limited.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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The Difference Between Not Caring and Not Being Conce ed

Not caring is an empty, dead feeling. Not being conce ed is a very alive vibrant feeling that can come by keeping the awareness in the chest with no other thought, fully present. One is full and the other is empty. For this to be a full feeling, training and practice of repeating a word mantra (a mantra is any word that has an emotional impact or value to you) to get your mind focused and being able to sense within your body is necessary to be able to consistently do this on demand or have as a lasting or frequent state.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Growth And Logic

There are many people who are drawing large numbers of followers, propagating that the world is changing and that the ‘energies’ are now different as humanity enters a realm of heightened awareness. They claim that this new period has changed the process of spiritual development such that a person can skip many levels of the process of development and go from totally unenlightened to full enlightenment instantly.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Perfect Intuition, What Prevents It And How To Get It

Intuition is basically information about what is going to happen, which has nothing to do with what you want to happen in your life or at the moment. What blocks you from hearing the voice of perfect intuition is your ego and your desires. If you are trying to hear your intuition, but you have a desire for things to go a certain way, then you will never know if the thoughts in your head are from pure intuition or your own wishful thinking.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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The Many Layers Of The Mind

We have spoken of the many layers of the totality of our being in previous lessons, and now we shall explain how each one has its own mind. There is the mind of each of the physical senses, the mind of discrimination of good and bad, the mind of thought and creativity, the mind of the soul, and many many other minds. There is the self, the soul, the intellect, ego, personality, prejudices, etc.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Invisible Nature; From Valentinian Branch Of Gnostic Teachings

One must not perform the mystery of the ineffable and invisible power through visible and corruptible things of creation, nor that of the unthinkable and immaterial beings through sensible and corporeal things. Perfect salvation is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through “Ignorance” came about “Defect” and “Passion,” the whole system springing from the Ignorance is dissolved by knowledge.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Why Do People Seek Pain

Self-mutilation, or other means of self-inflicted pain, physically, mentally or emotionally, are common to everyone. Everyone finds some way to inflict one form of pain or another on themselves, and we all wonder why. One young person told me that the reason she liked piercing was because it hurt. I found that strange at the time, but in fact, after enough years of self-observation, I must admit I too see a benefit in pain, although my pains are not physical.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Make Life Roll Smoothly In Perfect Control

For a bike wheel to roll smoothly, all the spokes must be strong and well connected. They connect to the hub. The hub is the central point of the wheel and connects to the axel. As I discovered by my own experience, when one spoke out of the 20 on my bike wheel broke, the whole wheel was wobbly and I could not ride safely.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

I Know Who I Am And I Know What I Want

That is the problem. You do not know who you are, and you only know what you think you want. There are many sayings that tell us to find our self, be that in religion, Shakespeare or in common conversation.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Curse of the Fortunate and the Blessing of Suffering

Things are not often what they appear and, what they clearly are at the time, is not always what they turn out to be in the future.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Uproot Anger

As an example, when people speak about the roads on a snowy day and say it is a mess, that is a negative attitude. Even if it is true, it may be messy but it is what it is. You will deal with whatever you must to get where you are going and it will be over with. There is nothing that can be done, and being negative does not make it better. I know this is a small thing and you may not have even noticed, but it is significant.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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God Does Not Give and God Does Not Take Away

Everything that comes and goes in your life is due to one thing that people give different names, chance, luck, destiny, God, or nature. The nature of the world is what it is. For example, using average people, the nature of a thief is to steal, the nature of an honest person is to be trusting. Nature rules that when a thief and an honest person meet in the right circumstances, the thief will steal and the honest person will lose. That is just nature. This has nothing to do with god or any angel or any being, or any amount of thought and thinking and creating. Nature rules.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How to Conquer Negative Energy Being Projected Towards You.

The subject of this article is about reacting to negative emotions. If you are effected by other peoples actions, that indicates that you care about what they think of you, you are not free. Certainly that is normal in our society, but is it normal for the real essence of a human being as opposed to the formed human ego personality? The Sufi tradition defines freedom as not being conce ed with what anyone thinks or says about you. That can easily be misinterpreted as arrogance so let me clarify that there is a difference between not caring and not being conce ed.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How to Experience of Pure Contentment

How to Experience of Pure Contentment I shall here describe what I have attained and how I attained it. I hope to continue my progress as I know there is still so much further to go. It is my sincere wish that you will attain what I have, and surpass this level as well. Many paragraphs contain different teachings, if you can understand what the teaching is and digest it, you would be free. This is what the masters of the past taught, it is not my creation, nor is it theirs, it simply is how it is. Each teacher has said it in a different way, as I will now put it in my own words.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Finding Happiness And The Point Of Life

Many people tell me they cannot find any point to life. That is very sad of course, to continue to live just because it is the only alte ative to death. Maybe they are right, or maybe not. Even if you have a purpose and see a point, this article may help you increase joy and pleasure in your life.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Why There Is No Balancing The Material And Spiritual

Everyone is seeking the way to balance their material life with their spiritual aspirations and practices. I believe there is no way to balance the two because they are not in fact separate. For two things to balance against each other, they must be separate and different, but if there is only one thing, then you cannot value one thing against itself, hence why I say it is not possible to balance the two sides of life.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

What Is Your True Goal? What Is Truly In Your Heart.

What is your true goal? What is that for each of us? It is not the same for all but appears to be the same for everyone in a group who share the same goal. That is obvious, but there is more to this than just the obvious. This is a tricky article, I hope you will have patience and persistence with my writing as I have made my best attempt to convey these thoughts in a way that if you think about this deeply enough, it may trigger some interesting realizations.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

A Daily Accounting, Five Questions in Five Minutes To Totally Transform Your Life

All religious and spiritual practices ultimately serve one purpose; to reflect on who you are as a human being by discovering the true nature of your personality. The method I present to you here allows us to discover who we truly are rather than who we think we are. With the discovery of the truth of our character, we automatically achieve a higher level of self development and become able to achieve our goals and desires.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Nobody’s Perfect

Everyone accepts that nobody is perfect and it is impossible for anyone to be perfect. At the same time, almost everyone would like to know and be in unity with God, or whatever term you use for what you perceive as a greater being. The problem is that God is perfect and there is no way for anyone to be in unity with perfection unless you are perfect yourself. How can you have a desire to unify with perfection when you accept that it is impossible for you to be perfect?

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Charity Foundations, Good Or Bad?

I am in Cambodia now, the town of Siem Reap and am amazed at how many charity foundations there are in this town, three hundred NGO's (non-gove mental associations), one everywhere you look. I have visited with several projects so far and learnt about a very interesting problem.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Where Have All The People Gone?

I wonder...when something new is opened or discovered and there is so much activity, people say how wonderful and helpful it is, are they lying? or just wrong. For the purposes of this discussion, I am not speaking of a new restaurant, rather this is about something that is of benefit to you and your mental or emotional state. Something that brings you benefits or further towards your goal.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How to Eliminate Paranoia and Other Fears

Paranoia is fear of being caught. What exactly are you afraid of being caught for? Is it for being pure and perfect? That is doubtful. If a person is paranoid, that means they have something to fear, something they did wrong or are too weak to defend. Paranoia is in the mind, it is a mental fear, that means that there is something in your mind that causes you to fear. Paranoia is an incomprehensible fear. It is something that controls you, yet you do not understand it and are unable to do anything about.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Seeds Of Our Moods

All things come from seeds, all plants and living beings, eggs are seeds. If every thing originates from a seed, and thoughts and emotions are things, then thoughts too, come from seeds. The proof that thoughts and emotions are real things is in their effect on our physical body. Don't emotions and thoughts cause some physical effect? Is not stress felt in tense muscles, or anger felt in physical discomfort, or love as butterflies in the stomach or other tingles?

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How to be an Optimistic Pessimist

Negative is really positive. Accept what is and you will never be disappointed or fail. Generalities are the rule, we must play by the rules. Humans are unreliable. Know this and they are without failure, and you will be without failure. Everything is destined to fail and be destroyed, this is nature, the law of growth and decay.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

What Goes Up Will Come Down

This article is about seeing and being able to use the positive in everything. We will start with exploring the foundation of being able to live a fully positive and successful life, what prevents it, and then proceed to more detail about the method. There is no point in discussing how to be successful until we have found and corrected the reasons we are not. If the engine is at full power but the plane is tightly tied to the ground, it will not move. First, we must remove the ropes.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Intellectual Emotions

This article is a transcript of a talk with a male student. It starts with a discussion of an exercise he has been given and then expands into the subject of the intellectual and emotional centers, feelings and thoughts. He is very shy and lacks self confidence. He has been given the exercise of talking to at least one new girl every day. He could get a date, but the point of the exercise is to approach and talk to the most attractive girl he can find, as that would be the most intimidating, to build confidence.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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Negative Emotions Are False and How to End Them

Law Of Attraction Positive Emotions Series Negative emotions are not real and are not natural. It is not possible to have any negative emotion that is part of our essence. Every negative emotion is learnt. Negative emotions need to be defined so they are not confused with other emotions which we now call negative. For instance, murder, rape and so on instil tremendous anger and negative emotions. So you will ask wouldn’t those be natural?

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Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Get An Objective Point Of View

To succeed in life, both in the world of business, relationships and other things, as well as succeed in the inner world, the spiritual world, you must learn to accept reality and your actions as they are without trying to make things fit your imagination. Attain an objective view of reality. This is the biggest problem for people, they never want to accept objective truth, we prefer subjective truths. It seems that these days everyone wants to believe that they have their own truth and they call it truth when it is their personal illusion.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

A Heaven of Perpetual Virgins, Sex and God.

In the pursuit of truth and the hopeful clarification of the escalating lunacy that is pervading our world at present, cultivating a religious war of truly disastrous proportions, I offer you a touch of reality. It is unlikely that many people other tha Moslems will read the Koran. It is also unlikely that the Moslems who do read it have a true understanding of its deeper meanings. We can say the same for any religion, Jew, Christian, Buddhist etc.

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Law of Attraction

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Are you Evil

The thoughts of this writing are based on the Hermetica, a body of literature written in late antiquity, but believed to be much older. Perhaps written at the time of Moses. Written originally in Latin and Greek, it is the source of the Gnostic teachings and it appears that Christianity took much from it as well.

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Law of Attraction

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You Cannot Find Something by Avoiding It.

If you run from it, how will you ever attain it. If the world is a form manifested by God and, if we run from the world, then how can we find God? You must get to know the world, and you know the world by knowing your self. You know yourself by observing yourself. In your objective observation of your feelings, desires and experiences, you discover what is true and what is false. What is false is what you have learnt and accepted as real and permanent when it is only acquired and temporary. What can be changed is not real.

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Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Is Anyone There? Can Anyone Hear Me?

This is the real question we all ask at some point in our life, is anyone there? Am I alone here, in the crowd, in the world? This article is about those moments, the times when we wonder if we are from another planet because it seems like no one can understand our feelings, thoughts and words. You may not have felt this often or recently, but I think that everyone has felt it at some time in their life, maybe only in childhood, maybe daily. This is a feeling of emotional and sometimes mental isolation.

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Law of Attraction

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The Key Factor in Finding a Real Teacher

In the search for knowledge especially spiritual knowledge, everyone wants the good stuff, high quality, the real meat of knowledge, but so few are willing to pay for it, and they do not understand how to pay. And so they float and wander from school to school, teacher to teacher always feeling disappointed and let down by inadequate teachers. “Another worthless empty teacher of just fluff. When will I find a real quality teacher who teaches the real stuff that can feed my hunger to learn and grow. Aren’t there any good teachers out there?

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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All About Self-Lying

Self-lying is our greatest hindrance to success. The truth cannot be found when you are living in a lie. Self-lying is just that, lying to yourself. We all do it, daily in fact. We may call it by other names, justify it, ignore it, or give in and believe it without even knowing what we are doing. Self-lying destroys many of our abilities and potential and prevents us from improving ourselves by making us think we are fine as we are, or not capable of achieving what we desire.

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Law of Attraction

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Sincerity, The Key to Successful Relationships

Sincerity is the word. It is the power behind all success in personal refinement. Pure thought is the power to command. Thought is made impure by fears, falsity, distractions, false desires, false personality, fragmentation, identification and so on. Sincerity is pure thought. But what is sincere thought? Impeccable action. Being who you are, not who you think you are. To be sincere requires personal freedom. One must be free to be sincere. True sincerity is like freedom, it has no ego fear of being hurt.

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Law of Attraction

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The Deadly Ego, Thinking You Understand When You Do Not.

There is a great danger in the whole idea that thoughts are things and we create what we think. This danger is to people who do not fully understand what that principle means, how it works, and how it can be confused with guidance and intuition. That danger lies in the ego which thinks it knows something it does not. I have noticed far too many instances in my life, and in other people’s lives, were guidance has come to mind and has been rejected as negative thoughts.

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Law of Attraction

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How To Eliminate Anger in Three Minutes

For those of you who know me and my views on ‘weekend enlightenment workshops’ you will be appropriately shocked by the title of this article, and even more shocked to know that I believe this to be true. The three minutes are spent in reading this article, which if understood, will in fact deliver on its promise, virtually instant elimination of anger and other associated negative emotions. After decades of study and exploration, and having met thousands of people who have followed the ‘instant magic to enlightenment and fixing all your problems in a day workshop’ with none having ever

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Law of Attraction

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The Magic Pill

In the search for success, love or spiritual growth, everyone wants some new and exciting ‘tools’ or ‘method’, the magic pill. The problem is that success is not made in magic pill form, it comes from long hard work, and people are not interested in that. What constitutes ‘hard work’ is not necessarily physical labour, it is even harder to see your self and conquer your bad habits and weaknesses. Humans by nature are lazy, not only in a bad way, but as well, perhaps the original point of it, in a good way. Laziness is fueled by a desire for efficiency.

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Law of Attraction

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What Is Your True Path In Life

May 27, 2010 What Is Your True Path In Life The first thing is to really understand, not just intellectually, but to sincerely finally understand and accept is that there is no one specific God given special path for anyone. We each have some abilities, either natural talents or developed and learnt ones, that can be used in a variety of paths to make like successful and happy. You have many possibilities to happiness and success. There are things we enjoy, which many other people would enjoy also, but that does not mean it is your special unique path in life.

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Law of Attraction

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Do You Need a Good Slap!

Let me tell you what frustrates me. The frustration comes from my own limitation to help people in a certain position, I simply do not know how to get this type of person past the point they are stuck at. This is not to say I do not know how to fix the problem, because I have a pretty good idea, but it is how to get people to take this bitter medicine that I am stuck.

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Law of Attraction

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Do You Really Understand Money?

What is important in getting something is understanding what it is. If you do not understand something, it is impossible to get it other than by luck, and luck is too unreliable to base your life on. You must understand money and what it can give you. Money does not only give you the things you can buy, or the freedom to not need to work, there is something far more subtle than any of these exte al things.

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What Really Bothers You

This is an exercise which I suggest doing for one month or longer. I would really appreciate hearing your results since it is a matter of great interest and a worthy study. Finding the true root cause of anything is the method to eliminate even subtle negative thoughts.

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Law of Attraction

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You Are 100% Responsible for Every Thing That Happened to You.

Misery or good things, almost every thing that happens to you, other than some exceptions, has happened due to your own decision at one point in time. You made a decision and that sent a chain of events in progress until what you are currently dealing with happened. Likewise, your innocent or assumed irrelevant decisions today will deliver certain results in your future. Even if you decide to turn left or right on a path, which route to take to your destination if you have a choice will determine the arrival time, early or late, alters who you may meet on the way.

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