One of my teachers said that we only have two categories everything in our life falls into: our commitments or our addictions. We can ask ourselves: “Is this an addiction or a commitment?” The US is a culture of addictions. Fatty food, cigarettes, alcohol, TV,  anger, separation. Not that any of these are wrong. They [...]

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“But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money–booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, [...]

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Deepak Chopra is senior scientist for the Gallop Organization. They will be releasing a book soon on the keys to Well Being. Here are the 5 keys to well being they found around the world:   Career – Finding at least one person in your business who shares your passion for this work. You will [...]

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I was at an infomercial taping for Alison Armstrong the other night. She’s been teaching women how to have amazing relationships with men for 18 years. When she started the taping, the first thing she said is, “I’m committed to heaven on earth.” Successful and happy people are always leaving clues. Just today, when rollerblading [...]

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“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”  ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The key word here is “willing”. It’s not saying you “must” die while doing something. That’s an addiction to struggle. “Willing” to die is about commitment. Commitment means “to [...]

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Some folks watched The Secret in 2006 and now have forgotten it. Maybe they imagine it was a fad, or worse, that “it didn’t work”. One of the master keys of The Secret is the right use of visualization, intention, and will power. It is NOT to make stuff appear out of thin air, or [...]

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If you can go on growing in this intimacy, which is no more excitement, then the joy will arise: first excitement, then love, then joy. Joy is the ultimate product, the fulfillment. Excitement is just a beginning, a triggering; it is not the end. And those who finish at excitement will never know what love [...]

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When we are spiritual adolescents, we’re all about excitement. As Tim Ferriss points out in the 4-Hour Workweek, most people are not sad, they are bored. Most fill themselves with alcohol, TV, Internet, work, relationships, because they are bored. I find entrepreneurs become workaholics because they would be bored without this distraction. Who wants to [...]

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The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles is the book that inspired Rhonda Burn to create The Secret. This book was written in 1910 at a time when men in the West, like Freud, were discovering the true power of the mind. The late 1800s ushered in the New Thought movement in the [...]

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This quote is from Osho, the spiritual teacher: Love is the only thing where the mind is not needed; and that is where the West is wrong: it brings in the mind even there! Love is what every human desires. Everything resolves to love. But in the West, even love is calculation, needing mind. There [...]

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