Karma

What is Karma? Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton’s law of ‘every action must have a reaction’. When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but most people will not be able eradicate it.
This law of cause and effect is not punishment, but is wholly for the sake of education or learning.
A person may not escape the consequences of his actions, but he will suffer only if he himself has made the conditions ripe for his suffering. Ignorance of the law is no excuse whether the laws are man-made or universal.
To stop being afraid and to start being empowered in the worlds of karma and reincarnation, here is what you need to know about karmic laws.

1. THE GREAT LAW

   – “As you sow, so shall you reap”. This is also known as the “Law of Cause and Effect”. – Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us. – If what we want is Happiness, Peace, Love, Friendship… Then we should BE Happy, Peaceful, Loving and a True Friend.

2. THE LAW OF CREATION

   – Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation. – We are one with the Universe, both inside and out. – Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state. – BE yourself, and surround yourself with what you want to have present in your Life.

3. THE LAW OF HUMILITY

   – What you refuse to accept, will continue for you. – If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

4. THE LAW OF GROWTH

   – “Wherever you go, there you are”. – For us to GROW in Spirit, it is we who must change – and not the people, places or things around us. – The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES and that is the only factor we have control over. – When we change who and what we are within our heart our life follows suit and changes too.

5. THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY

   – Whenever there is something wrong in my life, there is something wrong in me. – We mirror what surrounds us – and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth. – We must take responsibility what is in our life.

6. THE LAW OF CONNECTION

   – Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected. – Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on. – Someone must do the initial work to get a job done. – Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance, – As they were both needed to accomplish the task. – Past-Present-Future they are all connected…

7. THE LAW OF FOCUS

   – You can not think of two things at the same time. – When our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is impossible for us to have lower thoughts such as greed or anger.

8. THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY

   – If you believe something to be true,then sometime in your life you will be called upon to demonstrate that particular truth. – Here is where we put what we CLAIM that we have learned, into actual PRACTICE.

9. THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW

   – Looking backward to examine what was, prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW. – Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams… – Prevent us from having new ones.

10. THE LAW OF CHANGE

    – History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

11. THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD

    – All Rewards require initial toil. – Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil. – True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in on its own time.

12. THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION

    – You get back from something whatever YOU have put into it. – The true value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it. – Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole. – Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole, nor do they work to diminish it. – Loving contributions bring life to, and inspire, the Whole.

Sources: Bliss Returned and Raven Emrys

The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe

It was six men of Indostan

To learning much inclined,

Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind),

That each by observation might satisfy his mind

The First approached the Elephant,

And happening to fall against his board and sturdy side,

At once begain to bawl;

“God bless me! But the Elephant is a very like a wall!”

The Second, feeling of the tusk,

Cried,”Ho! what have we here so very round and smooth and sharp?

To me ‘its mighty clear

This wonder of an Elephant is very like a spear!”

The Third approach the animal, happening to take the squirming trunk within his hands,

Thus boldy up and spake:

“I see”, quoth he, “the Elephant is very like a snake!”

The Fourth reach out an eager hand, and felt about the knee.

“What most this wondrous beast is like is mighty plain” quoth he;

“Tis clear enough the Elephant is very like a tree!”

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,

Said:”E’en the blindest man can tell what this resembles most;

This marvel of an Elephant is very like a fan!”

The Sizth no sooner had begun about the beast to grope,

Then, seizing on the swinging tail that fell within his scope,

“I see,” quoth he, “The Elephant is very like a rope!”

And so these men of Indostan

Disputed loud and long,

Each in his own opinion

Exceeding stiff and strong,

Though each was partly in the right,

And all were in the wrong!

Moral:

so oft in theologic wars,

The disputants, I ween,

Rail on in utter ignorance

Of what each other mean,

And prate about an Elephant

Not one of them has seen!

Interesting Quotes

62) Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.

61) As a leader, in whatever field, it is one thing for your team to see how much you know, but that knowledge isn’t what will make your team great. What makes the difference is how you use that knowledge.

No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

60) it’s only by doing what we fear that we can every truly learn to be brave. 59) Whether you have a Maruti or a BMW, the road remains the same. Whether you travel economy class or business class, the destination doesn’t change. Whether you have a Titan or a Rolex, the time is the same. Whether you have a apple samsung or lava, people who calls you remain the same. There is nothing wrong in dreaming a luxurious life. Whats needs to be taken care of is to not let the NEED becomes GREED. Because needs can always be met but greed can never be fulfilled. 58)The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. 57) Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. 56) Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. but remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes… hollow. 55) To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind the walls. to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the Purpose of LIFE. 54)Intelligence: Not because you think you know everything without questioning but rather because you question everything you think you know. 53) “This is the day which the Lord has made: :Let us rejoice and be glad in it” Psalm 118:24 NASB 52) When BLAME is the Goal, UNDERSTANDING is the Casualty. 51) There is no way to happiness; Happiness is the Way. 50) Too often, we do not see things as they are; we see things as we are. 49) The only obstacles on your path to possiblities will always be yourself. 48) Holding on will only hold you back. 47) Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. Like turning you head this way and that, you can turn you mind whichever way you want. As with all things, it’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not that keeps you in place. 46) Nature gives every bird its worm, but does not throw it into the nest. A dream is something you go after. 45) Whatever you want to have, do, or be is within your reach when you advance one step further by not holding on. 44) The purpose of life is a life of purpose. 43) There always exists two paths, the path of what is and the path of what can be. Through the choices you make and actions you take, you can travel the path or not. Its up to you. Believe and you will achieve. 42) To live the life you deserve, you must believe that what you have on the inside can rise above any obstacles or circumstance on the outside. 41) Master circumstances of life, or risk having circumstances of life master you. 40) Uncertainty is the always. If we stop clinging to the illusion of certainty and trust the uncertainty, the uncertainty will leads us. We must learn to take risks, embrace the uncertainties of our individual lives, of our world. Not allowing it to shake us, to paralyze us, to persuade us, to fill us with doubt of our own capability. 39) If you believe in yourself, do you need the belief of others? 38) Why are we always more ready to believe what’s outside of us than what’s inside? 37) What is greatly dreamed is nobly dared. 36) All knowledge is but remembrance. 35) Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes. 34) Whatever you bring to the game of your life sets the limit for how much you can get out of life. To have all that you want, bring all that you have!! 33) Given all that went before- and all that did not go before – what happened was the only possibility. 32) Whether you’re an optimist or pessimist, may not affect the outcome. It’s just that optimist has a better time in life. 31) Belief with evidence = Facts ; Belief without Evidence = Opinion. 30) Weakness is a strength used inappropriately. 29) Lack of ability to deal with the situation makes one view the other party as a difficult person to deal with. 28) The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it! You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit! 27) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit. 26) Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. 25) Law of destiny states that something only happen becauses something else preceded it. 24) Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. 23) Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. 22) Success is having a fixed WHAT but variable HOWs. 21) Difficult times augment our capacity fir pleasure: it keeps us from taking pleasure for granted, it reminds us to be grateful for all the large n small pleasures in our lives. 20) I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. 19) What your mind can conceive, the mind can achieve! 18) Even if situation doesn’t improve, YOU improve! 17) Things do not happen; Things are made to happen. 16) Communication is filtered by how it’s perceived. 15) Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don’t matter and people who matter don’t mind. 14) Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not b shortened. Happiness never decrease by being shared. 13) Real difficulties can b overcome; it’s the imaginary one that are unconquerable. 12) Most people are happy as they make up their minds to be. 11) Great mind discuss ideas, Average mind discuss events and Small mind discuss people. 10) Real confidence is being comfortable enough with yourself to enter unfamiliar territory and have a go, being able to extend yr confidence from one scenario to another. 9) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 8) When you decide there is a reason for something not working for you, you have formed a belief. This belief is now part of the problem.. It’s of your own making. A problem can only exists in your mind. Outside your mind there are only circumstances. When you apply yourself to circumstances and believe tat you can succeed you are giving yourself the foundation to succeed in everything! 7) If you hear a voice within you say, “you can’t do it.” then by all means do it! And that voice will be silenced. 6) The mind is like a parachute – it’s works best when it’s open! 5) Somtimes the things you wan to do may seem insurmountable, not because of the size or difficulty of any particular challenge, but because of the way you are approaching it. 4) The Difference that makes the Difference. 3) A vision is a beacon that is quite clear to you once you see it; a goal is what you set when you cant see the vision. 2) Whenever there is a disagreement or conflicts, there is often a value or belief issue involved. 1) What is the point of being “in the right” if it makes everything goes wrong?

Leading for Success

Success Model

Vision + Value + Strategy + Resource + Capability + Motivation + Feedback = Success

 Lack of Vision leads to Confusion.

Lack of Value leads to Corruption.

Lack of Strategy leads to Diffusion.

Lack of resources leads to Frustration.

Lack of Capability leads to Fatigue.

Lack of Motivation leads to Crawl.

Lack of Feedback leads to Doubt.

Bed of Nails

One day, a man walked past a house and saw a little old lady rocking in her chair, a little old man reading the paper as he rocked next to her and a dog lying on the porch between the two, moaning as if he were in pain.

As he passed, the man wondered silently what the dog was moaning about.

The next day, he walked past the house again. He saw the old couple rocking in their chairs and the dog lying between them, making the same pained sound.

Puzzled the man promised himself that if the dog was still moaning the next day, he’d ask the old couple abt it.

On the third day, to his distress, he saw the same scene; the little old lady rocking in her chair, a little old man reading the paper and a dog in his spot, moaning piteously. He couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Excuse me, ma’am,” he called out to the old woman, ” What’s wrong with yr dog?”

“Oh, him?” she said, “he’s lying on a nail.”

Confused by her reply, the man asked, “if he’s lying on a nail and it hurts. Why doesn’t he just get up?”

The little old lady smiled and said in a sweet grandmotherly tone, “well, honey, it hurts just enough for him to moan abt it, but not enough for him to move yet.”

Supersize

If you have an empty 64-ounce cup and you pour the water from a full 24-ounce cup into it, you can’t expect it to fill the bigger cup. You accept that that’s all the water the 24-ounce cup can hold.

All the people in your life are truly doing their best they can with what they have.

People can only love you to the capacity that they are able to love themselves.

They can only forgive and embrace you to the capacity that they are able to forgive and embrace themselves.

They can only give you what they have the capacity to give.

You may think you deserve more. You maybe right. But that means nothing if a person simply doesn’t have the ability to give it to u.

Hence, each time you expect someone in your life with “24-ounce capacity” for love, forgiveness or communication to give you “64-ounces that you wanted, you are setting that person up for failure and yourself up for constant disappointment.

Live. Love. Accept.

How to build a good relationship – “We”

1) Get clear of your own identity, needs and wishes. You can’t build a gd relationship without knowing yourself and what you wan in a relationship.

2) Act as if the relationship already had a separate existence. Remind yrself that the faults lies in neither you or your partner but the relationship. This way rather than bickering over who was at fault, the problem can be solved faster.

3) Agree on rules of the relationship Building a relationship takes time. We have to learn to think and behave differently from the way we do when we just consider ourselves. Understanding each others goals, roles and responsibility can save you conflict n heartbreak.

4) Look for thing which satisfy all concerned. Where you have a choice, go for the one that will satisfy your partner and yourself. It’s easier if you put yourself in their shoes n imagine what works.

5) Give legitimate space to each other in the relationship. Being in a relationship doesn’t mean that everything has to be done together or having to share every thought or feeling. The richness of a relationship is built on a creative dialogue between separateness n sharing, individuality n collectivity. Encourage your partner independent interest rather than insisting you do everything together.

6) Find ways to allow your differences to enrich the relationship. We all function differently. Though most of the time, differences are the source of  misunderstanding and conflicts, they can too enrich a relationship. Get into the habit of noticing the differences and then ask yourself  how this particular difference could enrich your relationship.

7) Identify the things that enhance the relationship – and DO them more often. Get into the habit of noticing what’s going on when you feel the “togetherness” in a relationship. AND figure out just what is it about those situation that creates that “togetherness” that enhance the relationship.

8) Check your future plans. Get into the habit of checking out the future plans to ensure they express or enhance the relationship. Planning to avoid  or manage the worst scenarios in terms of relationship usually means they don’t have to even happen in the first place.

9) Deal with your negative feelings. When you are pissed off, deal with it yourself. Take a breath. Take a moment. Recognize and respect your irritation. What’s it about? If the cause is one-off, showing your irritation won’t do the relationship any good. If the cause repeats as a pattern, find an appropriate time and bring it to attention to your partner. Talk about it.. Peacefully..

10) Deal with genuine irritations. Don’t let these fester. Make it clear what you object to and why you think the situation is damaging as soon as possible.

11) Recipes for success. Where you are unhappy about something, make sure you also say what you would like. People can’t do much with comments that are generalized or woolly. They need to know what exactly is being objected to and what they have to do to improve things. (girls please take note. Don’t try to hint your guy.. it’s useless..)

12) Minimize pressure When things happen, ask yourself if there are ways in which you could minimize the impact of this characteristic on how you feel and ways round any problems it might cause. In this way conflicts and weakness in relationship can be reduced.

13) Lastly.. Praise and reward freely and generously. People often are quick to criticize and good are often taken for granted. Make it one of your goals to praise frequently, immediately and specifically. This will develop a positive cycle in your relationship, building a more secure n resilient sense of “togetherness” which can be rich in itself at the same time enriching the separate identities that go together to your relationship whole.

10 Attributes of a Total Winner

The first attribute of a total winner is his willingness to accept full responsibility for his past, his present, and his future. For example, he has learned how to discipline his thinking in the present and concentrate only on the rewards of success. Imagine what a professional golfer thinks about when he addresses the ball to tee off. Certainly he concentrates on proper technique and succesful excution. By controlling his thoughts and actions, a winner knows he determines his results as a natural casue and effect relationship. good, bad or indifferent, he accepts these results as a direct consequence of his behavior. We are all today exactly where we deserve to be, and we’ll all be at the same place tomorrow unless we decide we want to be somewhere else.

A winner knows it is not important where he is in life or where he has been, only where he is going!

The second attribute is an attitude of optimism and positive expectation. He believes  that what he wants to happen will happen! He doesn’t dwell on the 10% of his life that is wrong, forgetting tabout the 90% that is right. Instead, he expects the best in life and sees the good even in the bad, realising that in adversity as well as opportunity, there is something to be gained.

Optimists are simply people who have learned how to discipline their attitudes to there advevantage. It is an acquired mental skill.

The third attributeis intense, stimulating, positive motivation, and an ability to motivate othes by example he sets. Motivation results when an inner state of unrest is willfully directed toward an outer state of satisfcation by a lot of sincere desire. It is a sort of personal get-up-and-go, a driving force aimed at a better lifestyle and sense of service to others. A winner is motivated to satisfy his basic ego-related needs that include recognition, status, and opportunities to demonstrate high achievement, competence, creativity, and a degree of personal autonomy. Ego can be defined as the inherent self-assertive tendency of man towards inner peace. Motivation is literally motive-in-action; it is an emotion directed toward self-fuilfillment. It results when you know what you want and are willing to pay the price to get it.

The fourth attribute is positive assertive behavior. Positive implies constructive affirmation, and assertive implies active declaration. This is who you are, what you think, and how you feel; and of course all winners feel great and are getting better! Positive-assertive behavior characterizes an active rather passive approach to life, and is aimed at making things happen instead of waiting for things to happen. A winner is more a creator of his circumstances than a victim of them. Positive-assertive behavior is evident in personal communication that is open, direct, and honest. It demonstrates that you are willing to assert your rights in the proper circumstances and in an appropriate way; at the same time recognizing and respecting the rights of others. It denotes a person who has developed a positive perspective on life through a positive mental attitude and a positive self-image. A winner sees himself as a total winner. He is a love-motivated person in his relationship with other people, practicing the “if you win, then i win” relationship in the most charitable sense: he is willing to give of himself at all times while expecting nothing in return in the unfailing faith that sometime in the future he will receive many times over.

A total winner is also a good communicator. He accepts 100% of the responsibility for both sending and receiving messages. He realizes that if his ego needs are to be satisfied, he first has to satisfy the other person’s needs in the process. He puts giving first, knowing that getting will take care of itself. In any encounter, the other person can quickly sense whether you have his interests in mind or your own. A service attitude will convey your interest in the other person and respect for his point of view. A winner empathizes with others and practises treating them the same way he would wan ot be treated himself. Courtest, praise, empathy, goodwill, and respect – a winner has all these in unlimited quantity to give! A winner is confident and well-meaning in his relationshiops with other people. He gives as he takes and takes as he gives, and exchanges needs and rewards fairly and evenly, and in mutal respect. Winners usually get exactly what they expect and what they deserve from their interpersonal relationships.

A total winner has faith, the sixth attribute, in abundance. He has faith in himself, in others, in his organiztion, in his country and in God. Faith is the force of life. It is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It is the confident assurance that sonmething we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us even if we cannot see it up ahead. Faith is unquestionable belief.

Abraham Lincoln said it succinctly when he wrote:

 ” To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing!”

Faith leads us to the seventh attribute, creative use of the subconscious mind. A total winner has developed the ability to imagine his future! He knows that the quickest and most effective way to acquire a new attribute or ability is to simply imagine he already has it! We all have a TV set and a recording system located in our brain. We record everything played on every channel of our five senses, and often we go through life simply replaying our tapes. We can switch our mind to any channel, however, ad even create our own home movie from disparate data already recorded in memory. By using our imagination, we are our own producer, director, and main charactor on the stage of life. If you don’t like what you see on channel one, flip the selector until you see what you wan to be! People who picture their dream and believe in their dream end up living their dream. Of all creatures on earth, only humans can imagine their future and believe it can happen. Creative imagination and faith are the most powerful of all man’s faculties. All winners are image-makers and picture-takers. A winner’s only competition is himself and his own sense of excellence!

The Eighth attribute of a winner is total commitment and perseverence in seeking his goal. Like an astronaut, he isn’t interested in going only halfway. A winner formulates a game plan for his life and sticks to it. He makes a decision, which he needs to make only once, to achieve his purpose in life – namely to reach his full potential. He knows that the size of the person is determined by the size of the goal he commits himself to, and he realizes people receive the most satisfaction from achieveing goals they set for themselves rather than goals set for them by others. He knows his success is dependent on his ability to satisfy his inner needs of others. A winner understands, as ironic as it may seem, that we all recieve by giving, whether is is affection to our loved ones or services to our clients. All winners are expert givers!

A total winner also has the ability to change and adapt to new situations and challenges. The pace of life and new technologies all exact thier toll, and many find the price too much to bear. A winner has fostered a well -balanced emotional outlook on life, and is able to conserve his energy and direct it towards productive ends. Moderate stress is the spice of life and facilitaes achievement; whereas excess stress is distress and detracts from performance. Stress can be good or bad depending on how it is used. Stress is the body’s reaction to our everyday thoughts and feelings. It is minimized through accomodation and learning how to live with change, and is maximized by resisting it. Awinner knows he has a choice in how to response to stressful situations, and it is a person’s interpretation or reaction to a given event that produces the physiological response we call stress. An attitude of gratitude triggers one emotional response, while an attiude of anger or revenge triggers another. Fear and desire are the principal motivators in life. A winner concentrates on desire and reards of success rather than fear and the penalties of failure. A winner would rather try to succeed in life and fail than do nothing at all and succeed!

The tenth and final attribute of a toal winner is his effective use of all the above personality traits that when combined produce a synergtic effect. The result is what could be called a “super-charged” personality – in other words, a personality charged with winning attributes such as enthusiam, optimism, persistence,  persuasion, empathy, commitment, deisre, eneergy and unbounded faith in himself and his future.

A total winner uses all these personal powers to influence people and events in his life in order to get things one, all in cooperation with others. He recognizes that opportunities to exercise his personal power lie everywhere, inherent in his everyday activities; they lie in his appearance, his manner, and in the way he relates to other people.

A winner understands that success is really an unselfish goal beause it is impossible to succeed without helping others in the process.

A winner takes pride in being himself. He knows he is a winner and he projects the image of a winner. He accepts life as a challenge as well as a do-it-yourself project and he gets on with the job!

A winner knows there are 2 games going on in his life, an inner game and an outer game and each has its own set of rules. If a person plays the outer game of life and judges himself based on that he’ll get one result; if he plays the inner game of life and judges himself on this basis, he’ll get a different result. It’s not external perceptions that makes a person a true winner. It’s the attributes and values within the individual that determin his level of success.

The rules of the outer game of life are decided by others and society in general.

For example, others would have you believe you should be expect to be liked by nearly everyone you come into contact with in you life, and you should be expect to be successful in nearly all of your pursuits. These expectations are highly unrealistic and in fact incompatible: you cannot compete with other people and be more successful than they are, yet have everyone like you at the same time.

So a winner judges himself and his performance based on his inner values and sense of self, not on external values that ar determined by others. He maintains self-control. He knows that the name of the game is to be true to yourself. A winner plays only to an audience of one!

A winner cultiavtes the fertile fields of his mind and sows the seeds of success. He casts his net wide and deep in the abundant seas, and catches it bountiful rewards.

A winner accepts life as an experience that needs to be lived to the fullest! He knows it’s got  to be experienced intensely, earnestly and in a wide variety of ways in order to get the most out of it. When it is all over, people who have really lived are able to proclaim,

” I gave it my best shot. I have no regrets!”

This is the mark of a total winner!

10 Premises for a Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Dreikurs

1. Man is inherently neither good nor bad. His social usefulness and personal efficiency depends on his individual training and development, on his interpretation of his early experiences and on life situations with which he is confronted.

2. Man is not aware of his own individual strength and powers. He has intellectual, moral, and creative capacities which he does not recognize therefore cannot fully utilize.

3. Man can control his own actions.

Emotions are not his master but his tools.

He is motivated by his convictions, his attitude, and goals which he sets for himself, although he often may not be aware of them nor realize their fallacies.

4. Man influences his own destiny without knowing it; he is aware more of what is done to him than what he does to himself and others.

5. Man’s greatest obstacle to full social participation and cooperation is an underestimation of his own strength and value. Educational methods and training procedures tend to instill false concepts and attitudes about oneself in comparison with others and cultural patterns fortify them.

6. Man’s greatest downfall is fear. Courage and belief in his own ability are basis for all his virtue. Through his realization of his own value, he can feel as if he belongs with others and he can be interested in them.

7. The basis for harmonious human relationship is respect for one’s own dignity , combined with respect for the rights and dignity of others. It precludes a appeasement. Social equilibrium is obtainable only through free agreement of equals in the spirit of democracy.

8. Man is the ruler in democracy; therefore every member of society is entitled to the same dignity and respect which is accorded to a sovereign. Fundamental human equality is not affected by any individual incidental characteristic like race, color, religion, sex, age, social and economic position, education, physical or mental health and beauty, moral or intellectual development, skill, or personal achievement. Any assumption of superiority or inferiority on basis of such incidental factors is arbitrary and fallacious.

9. Peace of mind and peace on earth can be achieved when man will abolish the superiority of one man over the other, when each person value will be firmly establish by his own mind as well as in minds of his fellow men and when no compensatory desire for prestige or power will set man against his fellow man.

10. We need each other constant help to maintain our vision of what we each could be, to fortify our good intentions and noble aspirations and to counteract the discouraging and demoralizing experiences to which we are all exposed in our daily living.

Musing of a Realist

There is in fact no reality, only my perception of it.

Therefore, I will choose to interpret events in my life in such a way that I will be a happier and a more effective person.

I will use an open mind regarding my perception of myself and my environment.

By controlling my perceptions, I will be on control of my emotions and attitude, thus gaining confidence and enthusiasm.

Being in control of my emotions and attitude, I am in control of myself and my environment.

I can now aim higher in life and employ the creative powers of my subconscious mind to guide me.

My inner voice will lead me to greater happiness and success now that I believe I am capable and worthy of it.