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Your spirit is one with the Spirit of the Universe. Spirit surrounds you with plenty. First learn to ask, then learn to accept.

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Seven Steps to Success ~~ Part Six

September 30th 2006 01:24

Day after day you probably use the same car and, chances are you're the only person who drives it. You take it to get inspected (or whatever safety thing is done where you live). After the mechanic takes it for a spin, the only question is: "How the hell did you drive this thing with those brakes?" The moral here? We learn to compensate for what we see as bad breaks the same way we learn to compensate for bad brakes.

Six: The unhealed past
"All of us have been wounded by our interactions with the world, and as these psychic scars accumulate inside our emotional bodies, the more

How much baggage do you have?

disturbed we become. Neurotic tendencies originate from psychic wounds. Over time, they only get worse. Unless effort is made to heal the experiences of hurt, disappointment, rejection, and humiliation from the past, then their psychic force will continue to have a debilitating effect in our lives. So numbed out are we to our own pain that often it takes skilled professional intervention to uncover it. All examples of dysfunctional behavior and poor life conditions arise from some psychic wound making its silent impression. All acts of rampant evil arise from a psyche that has completely deteriorated into psychosis." ~~ Saleem Rana

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Seven Steps to Success ~~ Part Five

September 29th 2006 01:07

Whether we like it or not, all of at least sometimes stoop to the superficial. We can be especialy empty when it comes to the nicities of conversation. How many of us only mouth the words and don't really care about the answer when we ask, "Hi, how are you", or "How are the kids"? or "How's the job"? Oh, we ask pleasantly enough and sometimes feign interest, but why do we even bother? It's superficial; how can superficiality

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bring us together?

Five: Superficial relationships
"The entire fabric of life is based on relationships between various forms of life. The more superficial your relationship with other people, the more manipulative your interactions, and the more self-seeking your motivations, the more you hurt yourself. We know neither ourselves nor each other, and the results of this neglect of interest and affection is that we live lonely lives in a world where chaotic human behavior appears to be slowly but inevitably eroding the quality of all human experience." ~~Saleem Rana

There's no doubt in my mind these negative relationships have been part of the human condition since there have been humans to have conditions. It's not a phenomenon created by the 21st century. I also think we shouldn't persist in relationship superficiality simply because "that's the way we always did it".

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Seven Steps to Success ~~ Part Four

September 28th 2006 02:19

Normally, I don't have a 'favorite' anything. In any category, there are some I like more or less than others, but I've never been one to declare a favorite book, type of music, food, or anything else. Therefore, I'm surprising myself when I say that this step to success is, so far, my favorite. I say that because, while each of these seven steps is important and valid, I think this one can be considered the cornerstone.

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Even though I definitely have a more spiritual than purely religious take on life, I don't see spirituality as a slam in the face of religious doctrine. Actually, I think they can co-exist quite nicely in the same heart.

Four: Being dogmatically religious is not spiritual
"Understanding the great invisible forces of life can only come from original experience. Books and teachers may point the way, but ultimately, they do not light the path to deep understanding and only make a false impression of learning. True spirituality consists of acts of kindness, moments of wisdom, and feelings of high inspiration. When we learn and absorb the lessons of our own life, enjoy genuine warmth in relationship to other people and experience wonder when contemplating the great scheme of all life, then we may awaken to spiritual understanding. Institutions, no matter how venerable, cannot make you spiritual. Gurus, no matter how advance, cannot make you spiritual. Only your own unrelenting efforts at seeking the origins and meaning of the good, the true, and the beautiful will put your feet on the path to spiritual understanding. Spirituality, ultimately, cannot be taught; it can only be learned." ~~Saleem Rana

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Seven Steps to Success ~~ Part Three

September 27th 2006 02:03

Happy day to you. I don't know about you, but I'm enjoying doing this series. Well, let's face it, about half of it was already written for me, so these seven days don't require full input on my part. But that's not the real reason I like it. See, I get to read and appreciate someone else's thoughts and the payoff is that I get to share those thoughts with you.

Part Three can be considered a stand-alone, but I think it builds nicely on Part Two in yesterday's post. However, regardless of how it fits for you, it's a good thing.
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Seven Steps to Success ~~ Part Two

September 26th 2006 00:31

Watched TV in bed last night and I liked it! For weeks, I've not let myself rest and enjoy a little mindless entertainment before I slept. So now I can compare and sleep was definitely better after a two-hour rest. And it's probably not my imagination that I had better energy today. I could even intelligently comment on the posts in Adrian's Philosophy Blog. No low ebb for me today.

With that, I'll re-introduce Saleem (The Irresistible Success System) Rana.
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