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Napoleon Hill is considered to have influenced more people into success than any other person in history. Born in a one-room cabin, he began his career as a journalist. His big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie, who was so impressed with the young reporter that he convinced Hill to research and organize the world's first philosophy of individual achievement. The project took 20 years to complete.

Hill wrote several best-selling books on the subject. Napoleon Hill's Think And Grow Rich is one of Nightingale-Conant's best-selling programs of all time, selling more than 20 million copies.Napoleon Hill was an American new thought author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal achievement and success literature. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs as well as what role they play in personal success.

He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936.In 1883, Napoleon Hill was born into poverty in a small one-room cabin in Virginia. He began his writing career as a journalist for a small town newspaper and worked his way through law school. Not only did he become a bestselling writer on the principles of success, he also became a respected attorney.As a journalist, Napoleon Hill became acquainted with steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie.

Carnegie challenged Hill to interview the greatest business minds and leaders of his day to discover the common principles of success. Napoleon Hill took on the challenge and began to research and explore. He found that many of them had a similar way of thinking and acting, which contributed to their superior achievement. He compiled his results into several books, including Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of Success, both bestselling classics.Many thousands credit Hill's book Think and Grow Rich as the beginning foundation of their financial and personal success. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is a cornerstone of modern motivation.

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Chef John's Meatless Meatballs

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Whip up a smooth blend of milk, Neufchatel cheese, butter, garlic powder, onion powder, minced garlic and Parmesan cheese to make a pleasingly creamy sauce for fettuccini.

This savory side dish or vegetarian main dish is made with butternut squash and accented with fresh thyme and blue cheese.

A vegetarian version of the Korean one-bowl meal of rice and vegetables topped with an egg is ready in less than an hour.

Make vegetarian meatballs with browned mushrooms instead of meat and you'll be amazed by their hearty taste and perfect texture. Approved for use on spaghetti!

These vegetarian black bean and rice enchiladas are just as satisfying as those served in restaurants.

This Chili Rellenos Casserole is very easy to prepare and is loaded with flavor. Great for a busy week night, and good enough for company.

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Cream cheese is the secret to this quick Alfredo sauce.

This delicious salsa made with fresh kiwis, apples and berries is a sweet, succulent treat when served on homemade cinnamon tortilla chips. Enjoy it as a summer appetizer or an easy dessert.

Spinach, toasted almonds, and dried cranberries are tossed with a sweet and tangy, homemade dressing creating a crowd-pleasing spinach salad.

A restaurant-worthy appetizer stuffed with cream cheese, garlic, Parmesan cheese, and a hint of heat.

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Brussels sprouts are simply seasoned with salt, pepper, and olive oil, then slow-roasted in a very hot oven until darkest brown. They are the perfect combination of sweet and salty, and make for perfect snack leftovers straight from the fridge the next day!

Quick and easy black bean burgers, spiced up with chili sauce, cumin, garlic and chili powder. A tasty alternative to the frozen kind.

Bruschetta is a traditional Italian item in which small slices of bread are topped with such things as tomato, basil, and mozzarella cheese, as is the case in this delightful recipe.

A delicious mashed sweet potato casserole with a crunchy pecan topping. Easy to make-ahead, this recipe bakes in only 30 minutes.

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These unusual burritos are made with sweet potatoes, spices and kidney beans. They freeze well and can be deep-fried instead of baked.

Fresh asparagus is baked until tender, and dressed with a blend of butter, soy sauce, and balsamic vinegar.

Tender roasted cauliflower tossed in olive oil and garlic is topped with Parmesan and cheese and broiled until golden brown.

Flavorful refried beans seasoned with garlic, jalapeno, and cumin are simple to make when cooked in a slow cooker.

This savory deep-dish pie features herbed feta cheese that melts and mingles in every bite. The cheese is sauteed and mixed with spinach, mushrooms, Cheddar cheese and lots of garlic. This mixture is then combined with milk and eggs, and poured into a prepared crust. A bit more Cheddar cheese is sprinkled over the top, and then the quiche is slipped into the oven until it 's set.

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The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Lowlands and five universities. The Enlightenment culture was based on close readings of new books, and intense discussions took place daily at such intellectual gathering places in Edinburgh as The Select Society and, later, The Poker Club as well as within Scotlands ancient universities such as St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.[1][2]

Sharing the humanist and rationalist outlook of the European Enlightenment of the same time period, the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment asserted the fundamental importance of human reason combined with a rejection of any authority that could not be justified by reason. They held to an optimistic belief in the ability of humanity to effect changes for the better in society and nature, guided only by reason. This latter feature gave the Scottish Enlightenment its special flavour, distinguishing it from its continental European counterpart. In Scotland, the Enlightenment was characterised by a thoroughgoing empiricism and practicality where the chief values were improvement, virtue, and practical benefit for the individual and society as a whole.

Among the fields that rapidly advanced were philosophy, political economy, engineering, architecture, medicine, geology, archaeology, law, agriculture, chemistry and sociology. Among the Scottish thinkers and scientists of the period were Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton.

The Scottish Enlightenment had effects far beyond Scotland, not only because of the esteem in which Scottish achievements were held outside Scotland, but also because its ideas and attitudes were carried across the Atlantic world as part of the Scottish diaspora, and by American students who studied in Scotland.

Union with England in 1707 meant the end of the Scottish Parliament and home rule. The parliamentarians, politicians, aristocrats, and placemen moved to London. Scottish law, however, was entirely separate from English law, so the civil law courts, lawyers and jurists remained behind in Edinburgh. The headquarters and leadership of the Presbyterian Church also remained, as did the universities and the medical establishment. The lawyers and the divines, together with the professors, intellectuals, medical men, scientists and architects formed a new middle-class elite that dominated urban Scotland and facilitated the Scottish Enlightenment.[3][4]

At the union of 1707, England had about five times the population of Scotland and about 36 times as much wealth. Scotland experienced the beginnings of economic expansion that allowed it to close this gap.[5] Contacts with England led to a conscious attempt to improve agriculture among the gentry and nobility. Although some estate holders improved the quality of life of their displaced workers, enclosures led to unemployment and forced migrations to the burghs or abroad.[6] The major change in international trade was the rapid expansion of the Americas as a market.[7] Glasgow particularly benefited from this new trade; initially supplying the colonies with manufactured goods, it emerged as the focus of the tobacco trade, re-exporting particularly to France. The merchants dealing in this lucrative business became the wealthy tobacco lords, who dominated the city for most of the eighteenth century.[8] Banking also developed in this period. The Bank of Scotland, founded in 1695 was suspected of Jacobite sympathies, and so a rival Royal Bank of Scotland was founded in 1727. Local banks began to be established in burghs like Glasgow and Ayr. These made capital available for business, and the improvement of roads and trade.[9]

The humanist-inspired emphasis on education in Scotland, culminated in the passing of the Education Act 1496, which decreed that all sons of barons and freeholders of substance should attend grammar schools.[10] The aims of a network of parish schools were taken up as part of the Protestant programme in the 16th century and a series of acts of the Privy Council and Parliament in 1616, 1633, 1646 and 1696, attempted to support its development and finance.[11] By the late 17th century there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the Lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas.[12] One of the effects of this extensive network of schools was the growth of the "democratic myth", which in the 19th century created the widespread belief that many a "lad of pairts" had been able to rise up through the system to take high office, and that literacy was much more widespread in Scotland than in neighbouring states, particularly England.[12] Historians are now divided over whether the ability of boys who pursued this route to social advancement was any different than other comparable nations, because the education in some parish schools was basic, short, and attendance was not compulsory.[13] Regardless of what the literacy rate actually was, it is clear that many Scottish students learned a useful form of visual literacy that allowed them to organise and remember information in a superior fashion.[14]

By the 17th century, Scotland had five universities, compared with England's two. After the disruption of the civil wars, Commonwealth and purges at the Restoration, they recovered with a lecture-based curriculum that was able to embrace economics and science, offering a high quality liberal education to the sons of the nobility and gentry.[12] All saw the establishment or re-establishment of chairs of mathematics. Observatories were built at St. Andrews and at King's and Marischal colleges in Aberdeen. Robert Sibbald (16411722) was appointed as the first Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh, and he co-founded the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1681.[15] These developments helped the universities to become major centres of medical education and would put Scotland at the forefront of new thinking.[12] By the end of the century, the University of Edinburgh's Medical School was arguably one of the leading centres of science in Europe, boasting such names as the anatomist Alexander Monro (secundus), the chemists William Cullen and Joseph Black, and the natural historian John Walker.[16] By the 18th century, access to Scottish universities was probably more open than in contemporary England, Germany or France. Attendance was less expensive and the student body more socially representative.[17] In the eighteenth century Scotland reaped the intellectual benefits of this system.[18]

In France, Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopdie (175172) edited by Denis Diderot and (until 1759) Jean le Rond d'Alembert (171384) with contributions by hundreds of leading intellectuals such as Voltaire (16941778), Rousseau (171278) [19] and Montesquieu (16891755). Some 25,000 copies of the 35-volume set were sold, half of them outside France. In Scottish intellectual life the culture was oriented towards books.[clarification needed][20] In 1763 Edinburgh had six printing houses, three paper mills, and by 1783 there were 16 printing houses and 12 paper mills.[21]

Intellectual life revolved around a series of clubs, beginning in Edinburgh in the 1710s. One of the first was the Easy Club, co-founded In Edinburgh by the Jacobite printer Thomas Ruddiman. Clubs did not reach Glasgow until the 1740s. One of the first and most important in the city was the Political Economy Club, aimed at creating links between academics and merchants.[22] Other clubs in Edinburgh included The Select Society, formed by artist the younger Allan Ramsay, and philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith[23] and, later, The Poker Club, formed in 1762 and named by Adam Ferguson for the aim to "poke up" opinion on the militia issue.[24]

Historian Jonathan Israel argues that by 1750 Scotland's major cities had created an intellectual infrastructure of mutually supporting institutions, such as universities, reading societies, libraries, periodicals, museums and masonic lodges. The Scottish network was "predominantly liberal Calvinist, Newtonian, and 'design' oriented in character which played a major role in the further development of the transatlantic Enlightenment".[18][25] Bruce Lenman says their "central achievement was a new capacity to recognize and interpret social patterns."[26]

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson (16941746), who was professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow from 1729 to 1746. He was an important link between the ideas of Shaftesbury and the later school of Scottish Common Sense Realism, developing Utilitarianism and Consequentialist thinking.[27] Also influenced by Shaftsbury was George Turnbull (1698-1748), who was regent at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and who published pioneering work was in the fields of Christian ethics, art and education.[28]

David Hume (171176) whose Treatise on Human Nature (1738) and Essays, Moral and Political (1741) helped outline the parameters of philosophical Empiricism and Scepticism.[27] He would be a major influence on later Enlightenment figures including Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham.[29] Hume's argument that there were no efficient causes hidden in nature was supported and developed by Thomas Brown (17781820), who was Dugald Stewart's (17531828) successor at Edinburgh and who would be a major influence on later philosophers including John Stuart Mill.[30]

In contrast to Hume, Thomas Reid (171096), a student of Turnbull's, along with minister George Campbell (171996) and writer and moralist James Beattie (17351803), formulated Common Sense Realism.[31] Reid set out his theories in An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764).[32] This approach argued that there are certain concepts, such as human existence, the existence of solid objects and some basic moral "first principles", that are intrinsic to the make up of man and from which all subsequent arguments and systems of morality must be derived. It can be seen as an attempt to reconcile the new scientific developments of the Enlightenment with religious belief.[33]

Major literary figures originating in Scotland in this period included James Boswell (174095), whose An Account of Corsica (1768) and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) drew on his extensive travels and whose Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) is a major source on one of the English Enlightenment's major men of letters and his circle.[34]Allan Ramsay (16861758) laid the foundations of a reawakening of interest in older Scottish literature, as well as leading the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza as a poetic form.[35] The lawyer Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) made a major contribution to the study of literature with Elements of Criticism (1762), which became the standard textbook on rhetoric and style.[36]

Hugh Blair (17181800) was a minister of the Church of Scotland and held the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh. He produced an edition of the works of Shakespeare and is best known for Sermons (17771801), a five-volume endorsement of practical Christian morality, and Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783), an essay on literary composition, which was to have a major impact on the work of Adam Smith. He was also one of the figures who first drew attention to the Ossian cycle of James Macpherson to public attention.[37] Macpherson (173696) was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published "translations" that were proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics. Fingal, written in 1762, was speedily translated into many European languages, and its appreciation of natural beauty and treatment of the ancient legend has been credited more than any single work with bringing about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German literature, through its influence on Johann Gottfried von Herder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[38] Eventually it became clear that the poems were not direct translations from the Gaelic, but flowery adaptations made to suit the aesthetic expectations of his audience.[39]

Before Robert Burns (175996) the most important Scottish language poet was Robert Fergusson (175074), who also worked in English. His work often celebrated his native Edinburgh and Enlightenment conviviality, as in his best known poem "Auld Reekie" (1773).[40] Burns, an Ayrshire poet and lyricist, is now widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and became a major figure in the Romantic movement. As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.[41] Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition.[42]

Adam Smith developed and published The Wealth of Nations, the starting point of modern economics.[43] This study, which had an immediate impact on British economic policy, still frames discussions on globalisation and tariffs.[44] The book identified land, labour, and capital as the three factors of production and the major contributors to a nation's wealth, as distinct from the Physiocratic idea that only agriculture was productive. Smith discussed potential benefits of specialization by division of labour, including increased labour productivity and gains from trade, whether between town and country or across countries.[45] His "theorem" that "the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market" has been described as the "core of a theory of the functions of firm and industry" and a "fundamental principle of economic organization."[46] In an argument that includes "one of the most famous passages in all economics,"[47] Smith represents every individual as trying to employ any capital they might command for their own advantage, not that of the society,[48] and for the sake of profit, which is necessary at some level for employing capital in domestic industry, and positively related to the value of produce.[49] Economists have linked Smith's invisible-hand concept to his concern for the common man and woman through economic growth and development,[50] enabling higher levels of consumption, which Smith describes as "the sole end and purpose of all production."[51][52]

Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed what leading thinkers such as James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (171499) and Lord Kames called a science of man,[53] which was expressed historically in the work of thinkers such as James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, William Robertson and John Walker, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behave in ancient and primitive cultures, with an awareness of the determining forces of modernity. Modern notions of visual anthropology permeated the lectures of leading Scottish academics like Hugh Blair,[54] and Alan Swingewood argues that modern sociology largely originated in Scotland.[55] Lord Monboddo is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. He was the first major figure to argue that mankind had evolved language skills in response to his changing environment and social structures.[56] He was one of a number of scholars involved in the development of early concepts of evolution and has been credited with anticipating in principle the idea of natural selection that was developed into a scientific theory by Charles Darwin.[57]

One of the central pillars of the Scottish Enlightenment was scientific and medical knowledge. Many of the key thinkers were trained as physicians or had studied science and medicine at university or on their own at some point in their career. Likewise, there was a notable presence of university medically-trained professionals, especially physicians, apothecaries, surgeons and even ministers, who lived in provincial settings.[58] Unlike England or other European countries like France or Austria, the intelligentsia of Scotland were not beholden to powerful aristocratic patrons and this led them see science through the eyes of utility, improvement and reform.[citation needed]

Colin Maclaurin (16981746) was appointed as chair of mathematics by the age of 19 at Marischal College, and was the leading British mathematician of his era.[27] Mathematician and physicist Sir John Leslie (17661832) is chiefly noted for his experiments with heat and was the first person to artificially create ice.[59]

Other major figures in science included William Cullen (171090), physician and chemist, James Anderson (17391808), agronomist. Joseph Black (172899), physicist and chemist, discovered carbon dioxide (fixed air) and latent heat,[60] and developed what many consider to be the first chemical formulae.[61]

James Hutton (172697) was the first modern geologist, with his Theory of the Earth (1795) challenging existing ideas about the age of the earth.[62][63] His ideas were popularised by the scientist and mathematician John Playfair (17481819).[64] Prior to James Hutton, Rev. David Ure then minister to East Kilbride Parish was the first to represent the shells 'entrochi' in illustrations and make accounts of the geology of southern Scotland. The findings of David Ure were influential enough to inspire the Scottish endeavour to the recording and interpretation of natural history and Fossils, a major part of the Scottish Enlightenment.[65][66]

In medicine Edinburgh became a major centre of medical teaching and research.[67]

Representative of the far-reaching impact of the Scottish Enlightenment was the new Encyclopdia Britannica, which was designed in Edinburgh by Colin Macfarquhar, Andrew Bell and others. It was first published in three volumes between 1768 and 1771, with 2,659 pages and 160 engravings, and quickly became a standard reference work in the English-speaking world. The fourth edition (1810) ran to 16,000 pages in 20 volumes. The Encyclopaedia continued to be published in Edinburgh until 1898, when it was sold to an American publisher.[68]

The Scottish Enlightenment had numerous dimensions, influencing the culture of the nation in several areas including architecture, art and music.[69]

Scotland produced some of the most significant architects of the period who were involved in the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment. Robert Adam (172892) was an interior designer as well as an architect, with his brothers developing the Adam style,[70] He influenced the development of architecture in Britain, Western Europe, North America and in Russia.[71][72] Adam's main rival was William Chambers, another Scot, but born in Sweden.[73] Chambers was appointed architectural tutor to the Prince of Wales, later George III, and in 1766, with Robert Adam, as Architect to the King.[74][75]

Artists included John Alexander and his younger contemporary William Mossman (170071). They painted many of the figures of early-Enlightenment Edinburgh.[76] The leading Scottish artist of the late eighteenth century, Allan Ramsay, studied in Sweden, London and Italy before basing himself in Edinburgh, where he established himself as a leading portrait painter to the Scottish nobility and he undertook portraits of many of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, including his friend the philosopher David Hume and the visiting Jean-Jacques Rousseau.[77]Gavin Hamilton (172398) spent almost his entire career in Italy and emerged as a pioneering neo-classical painter of historical and mythical themes, including his depictions of scenes from Homer's Iliad, as well as acting as an informal tutor to British artists and as an early archaeologist and antiquarian.[78] Many of his works can be seen as Enlightenment speculations about the origins of society and politics, including the Death of Lucretia (1768), an event thought to be critical to the birth of the Roman Republic. His classicism would be a major influence on French artist Jacques-Louis David (17481825).[79]

The growth of a musical culture in the capital was marked by the incorporation of the Musical Society of Edinburgh in 1728.[80] Scottish composers known to be active in this period include: Alexander Munro (fl. c. 1732), James Foulis (171073) and Charles McLean (fl. c. 1737).[81]Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (173281) was one of the most important British composers of his era, and the first Scot known to have produced a symphony.[82] In the mid-eighteenth century, a group of Scottish composers began to respond to Allan Ramsey's call to "own and refine" their own musical tradition, creating what James Johnson has characterised as the "Scots drawing room style", taking primarily Lowland Scottish tunes and adding simple figured basslines and other features from Italian music that made them acceptable to a middle-class audience. It gained momentum when major Scottish composers like James Oswald (171069) and William McGibbon (1690-1756) became involved around 1740. Oswald's Curious Collection of Scottish Songs (1740) was one of the first to include Gaelic tunes alongside Lowland ones, setting a fashion common by the middle of the century and helping to create a unified Scottish musical identity. However, with changing fashions there was a decline in the publication of collections of specifically Scottish collections of tunes, in favour of their incorporation into British collections.[83]

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century,[53] disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as Thomas Carlyle, James Watt, William Murdoch, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin and Sir Walter Scott.[84] The influence of the movement spread beyond Scotland across the British Empire, and onto the Continent. The political ideas had an important impact on the founding fathers of the US, which broke away from the empire in 1775.[85][86][87] The philosophy of Common Sense Realism was especially influential in 19th century American thought and religion.[88]

The Scottish dramatist Robert McLellan (1907-1985) wrote a number of full-length stage comedies which give a self-conscious representation of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish enlightenment, most notably The Flouers o Edinburgh (1957). These plays include references to many of the figures historically associated with the movement and satirise various social tensions, particularly in the field of spoken language, between traditional society and anglicised Scots who presented themselves as exponents of so-called 'new manners'. Other later examples include Young Auchinleck (1962), a stage portrait of the young James Boswell, and The Hypocrite (1967) which draws attention to conservative religious reaction in the country that threatened to check enlightenment trends. McLellan's picture of these tensions in national terms is complex, even-handed and multi-faceted.[89]

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It's not the situation, but wheather we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.

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You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it's seldom easy.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."

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All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

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You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

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Be helpful.When you see a person without a smile ,Give him yours.

When you put faith, hope and love together you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Failure is an event, not a person.Yesterday ended last night.

There are seldom.If ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

YOu cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action .Faith, hope, and discipline Enable you to follow through to completion.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.

Keep your thinking right And your business will be right.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner .

What you do off the job is determining factor In how far you will go on the job.

You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.With integrity you will do the right thing,so you will have no guilt.With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Some people find faultlike there is a reward for it .

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do.They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be you must plan to win and prepare to win.Then and only then can you legitimately expect to win.

When your image improves, your performance improves.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

It's not what you know, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Don't be distracted by criticism.Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you.

You enhance your chancesfor success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

When we clearly undertsand that thereis no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.

The only way to coast is down hill.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Selling is essentially transfernce of feeling.

If you will pump long enough, hard enough, and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

You don't "paythe price"for success-you enjoy the benefits of success.

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it ontthe installment plan and make payments every day.

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.

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Zig Ziglar - Motivating Quotes

The personal development legend explains how to get everything you want out of life.

Few have had as great an impact on as many people as Zig Ziglar. As a sales trainer, motivational speaker and best-selling author, Ziglar has helped millions of individuals improve not only their perspective on life, but, more important, their results.

After a bumpy start, Ziglar built a wildly successful career in sales. But the more he learned about selling and personal achievement, the more interested he became in motivational speaking. He wanted to help others attain the success he enjoyed. In 1970, while in his early 40s, Ziglar made a career shift and began to speak full time. Since then, he has engaged thousands of audiences and sold millions of books and audio programs, including the best-selling See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition, which sold more than 1.5 million copies, and the audio program How to Stay Motivated. Exactly how many lives has the 83-year-old Ziglar touched? We began counting the number of people Zig has impacted and had to stop at 25.5 million people, says a spokesperson with the Zig Ziglar Corporation.

With his unique cadence and strong Southern drawl, Ziglar admonishes people to be specific about what they want to achieve, to be purposeful in their approach to personal development, and to help as many others as possible along the way. And though he is a dyed-in-the-wool believer in the power of positive thinking, there is nothing secret about his philosophy on achieving success. Positive thinking wont let you do anything, Ziglar says. But it will help you do everything better than negative thinking will. His constant message is that success requires full engagement and hard work. When combined with an unshakable positive attitude and character, success is inevitable. Here are a few more of Ziglars tried-and-true strategies.

Live a Balanced, Focused Life

Success is never about acquiring what you want in one area of life, but in every area of life. Reminiscent of I Corinthians 13, Ziglar asks audiences to consider the fallacy of one-sided success. Take a moment and ask yourself these questions:

+ If I earn millions of dollars, but destroy my health in the process, is that success?

+If I become the best in my industry, but neglect my family and friends, is that success?

+ If I acquire great wealth and notoriety, but compromise my integrity and faith to do so, is that success?

The obvious answer to each of these questions is no. Success isnt one-sided. Our achievements arent fulfilling when we neglect or destroy our relationships, health or faith.

Through the years, Ziglars axiom has been, You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want. But what exactly do people want? What do you want? Getting clear about your goals and desires, after all, is the first step to achieving them.

Ziglar says there are eight basic things people want to feel successful. People want to be happy, healthy, reasonably prosperous and secure; they want to have friends, peace of mind, good family relationships and hope, he says. With a focused goal to continually improve in each of these areas, we can enjoy life to the fullest.

You are here for a reason. That purpose is to get everything out of you that is humanly possible so you can make your contributions to mankind, Ziglar writes in See You at the Top. Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too. He also notes that goals must be specific. Youll never make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Goals give us a target and bring meaning to our mission. Without goals, life simply happens. But when we have a target, we can move with purpose, helping us achieve more. People often complain about lack of time, when lack of direction is the real problem, Ziglar says. Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals and your determination to use every available minute.

Action Dont confuse activity with accomplishment. You must have specific, clearly identified objectives. In the How to Stay Motivated audio program, Ziglar advises listeners to write down everything they want to do, be or have. Once youve created your list, pick five things you want to accomplish this year and outline a plan for each by defining daily, weekly and monthly targets. Then get started!

Take a (Mental) Bath Every Day

Getting motivated to improve in any one of these eight areas of life is relatively easy. But staying motivated enough to maintain the behaviors required to realize real change is challenging.

Ziglar illustrates the point by recounting the story of going to the gym on Jan. 2 one year. Normally, finding a place to park wasnt an issue, nor was finding an empty workout bench or treadmill. But on his first visit of the new year, he was forced to park at the back of the lot and had to wait in line to use the equipment. When he questioned the trainer at the front desk about the influx of patrons, he was told not to worry and that things would go back to normal in about three weeks. Sure enough, before three weeks had passed, there were once again plenty of vacant spaces in the parking lot and several empty workout benches.

We are easily motivated to start a life-improvement project, but staying motivated takes work. Ziglar comments that people frequently complain to him that the effects of motivational seminars, books and audios dont last. His response: Neither does bathing; thats why we recommend it daily.

In his Christian Motivation for Daily Living audio program, Ziglar references a study that indicates 80 percent of what our minds take in each day is negative. Be it from talk radio or what Ziglar refers to as the income suppressant (aka the television), or the gripes and sour attitudes of our friends, co-workers, family members and acquaintances, we are inundated with negative thoughts, comments and messages. We can spend a full day at a motivational seminar or sales conference and get pumped with enthusiasm. But, as soon as we step out into the real world, the onslaught of negativity is akin to having someone dump garbage into our freshly cleaned mind.

If I were to come into your home with a pail of garbage and dump it on your living room floor, we would have problemsfast, Ziglar writes in See You at the Top. The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

To offset the negativity and to stay motivated to reach our goals, continual affirmations and belief-building messages must be part of our daily routine. Thats why, in addition to practicing positive self-talk, Ziglar recommends listening to and reading motivational materials repeatedly and regularly. You are what you are and where you are because of whats gone into your mind, he says. You can change what you are, you can change where you are, by changing what goes into your mind.

Action Block out 30 minutes a day (at a minimum) to read or listen to a positive, inspiring or motivational message. Doing so will help you stay committed to your goals and bolster your belief in your ability to achieve them.

Help Others Get What They Want

If helping others get what they want is the true path to success, sales is the ideal profession. People buy because they either need or want something, Ziglar writes in Ziglaron Selling. If we can give persons a reason for buying andan excuse for buying, the chances that they will buy inprove rather dramatically. The key, he explains, is developing an attitude of curiosity and a sincere interest in your prospects needs. With those needs clarified, you can then offer a solution that satisfies both you and the customer.

At a recent conference, author and keynote speaker Bob Burg pointed to Ziglar, a fellow panelist for the event, and shared how this master motivator and successful salesman had impacted his life. Early in his sales career, Burg attended one of Ziglars Secrets of Closing the Sale seminars. At the end of his presentation, Ziglar pitched his sales training program, which was available for purchase at the back of the room in cassette format.

As he made his way down the aisle to the sales table, a few of Burgs co-workers tried to stop him. They said, You cant afford Zigs programnone of us can. And I said, Exactly, thats why Im going back there to get Zigs program so one day Ill be able to afford Zigs program and anything else I want, Burg says. Burg says he devoured the program, listening to it repeatedly. The 16th time he listened to the audio, he heard a key point that he then incorporated into to his sales presentation. Immediately, he began to close more sales. Ill tell you what, that product that I couldnt afford to buy, but bought anyway, made me hundreds of thousands of dollars through the years. I owe so much to this gentleman because he allowed me to provide more value to more people than I would have been able to without being equipped in that way.

Action Commit today to become others-focused. With your spouse, your children, your prospect and your peers, keep the question, How can I help you? as a primary focus in the relationship.

If you want to be happy, healthy, reasonably prosperous and secure, and if you want to have friends, peace of mind, good family relationships and hope, it makes sense to listen to this motivational masters positive message of personal responsibility. Millions have and credit their achievements to what theyve learned from Ziglar, a man who created a successful life by helping others do the same.

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An academic, Grant explains that added to hard work, talent, and luck, highly successful people need the ability to connect with others. We learn givers give more than they get, takers get more than they give, and matchers aim to give and get equally; all can succeed. The authors aim is to explain why we underestimate the success of givers, to explore what separates giver champs from chumps, and what is unique about giver success. Emphasis on teams and the rise of the service sector offers givers access to opportunities that takers and matchers often miss. In the first section, the author explains his principles of giver success, and, in the second part, with insightful stories he explores the costs of giving and how givers can protect themselves against burnout and becoming pushovers; helping others does not compromise success. Grant concludes with his hope that this book will provide his young daughters generation with a new perspective on success. A worthy goal for this excellent book. --Mary Whaley --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Give and Take just might be the most important book of this young century. As insightful and entertaining as Malcolm Gladwell at his best, this book has profound implications for how we manage our careers, deal with our friends and relatives, raise our children, and design our institutions. This gem is a joy to read, and it shatters the myth that greed is the path to success. ~Robert Sutton, author of The No *sshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss

Give and Take is a truly exhilarating bookthe rare work that will shatter your assumptions about how the world works and keep your brain firing for weeks after you've turned the last page. ~Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind

Give and Take is brimming with life-changing insights. As brilliant as it is wise, this is not just a bookit's a new and shining worldview. Adam Grant is one of the great social scientists of our time, and his extraordinary new book is sure to be a bestseller. ~Susan Cain, author of Quiet

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Give and Take is a pleasure to read, extraordinarily informative, and will likely become one of the classic books on workplace leadership and management. It has changed the way I see my personal and professional relationships, and has encouraged me to be a more thoughtful friend and colleague. ~Jeff Ashby, NASA space shuttle commander

With Give and Take, Adam Grant has marshaled compelling evidence for a revolutionary way of thinking about personal success in business and in life. Besides the fundamentally uplifting character of the case he makes, readers will be delighted by the truly engaging way he makes it. This is a must read. ~Robert Cialdini, author of Influence

Give and Take is a brilliant, well-documented, and motivating debunking of good guys finish last! I've noticed for years that generosity generates its own kind of equity, and Grant's fascinating research and engaging style have created not only a solid validation of that principle but also practical wisdom and techniques for utilizing it more effectively. This is a super manifesto for getting meaningful things done, sustainably. ~David Allen, author of Getting Things Done

Packed with cutting-edge research, concrete examples, and deep insight, Give and Take offers extraordinarily thought-provokingand often surprisingconclusions about how our interactions with others drive our success and happiness. This important and compulsively-readable book deserves to be a huge success. ~Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home

One of the great secrets of life is that those who win most are often those who give most. In this elegant and lucid book, filled with compelling evidence and evocative examples, Adam Grant shows us why and how this is so. Highly recommended! ~William Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes and author of The Power of a Positive No

Good guys finish firstand Adam Grant knows why. Give and Take is the smart surprise you can't afford to miss." ~Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness

Give and Take is an enlightening read for leaders who aspire to create meaningful and sustainable changes to their environments. Grant demonstrates how a generous orientation toward others can serve as a formula for producing successful leaders and organizational performance. His writing is as engaging and enjoyable as his style in the classroom. ~Kenneth Frazier, Chairman, President, and CEO of Merck & Co.

In this riveting and sparkling book, Adam Grant turns the conventional wisdom upside-down about what it takes to win and get ahead. With page-turning stories and compelling studies, Give and Take reveals the surprising forces behind success, and the steps we can take to enhance our own. ~Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations, Google

Give and Take dispels commonly held beliefs that equate givers with weakness and takers with strength. Grant shows us the importance of nurturing and encouraging prosocial behaviors. ~Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational

Give and Take defines a road to success marked by new ways of relating to colleagues and customers as well as new ways of growing a business. ~Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com and author of Delivering Happiness

A milestone! Well-researched, generous, actionable and important. Adam Grant has given us a gift, a hard-hitting book about the efficacy of connection and generosity in everything we do. ~Seth Godin, bestselling author of The Icarus Deception and Tribes

Give and Take will fundamentally change the way you think about success. Unfortunately in America, we have too often succumbed to the worldview that if everyone behaved in their own narrow self-interest, all would be fine. Adam Grant shows us with compelling research and fascinating stories there is a better way. ~Lenny Mendonca, Director, McKinsey & Co.

Adam Grant, a rising star of positive psychology, seamlessly weaves together science and stories of business success and failure, convincing us that giving is in the long run the recipe for success in the corporate world. En route you will find yourself re-examining your own life. Read it yourself, then give copies to the people you care most about in this world. ~Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism and Flourish

Give and Take presents a groundbreaking new perspective on success. Adam Grant offers a captivating window into innovative principles that drive effectiveness at every level of an organization and can immediately be put into action. Along with being a fascinating read, this book holds the key to a more satisfied and productive workplace, better customer relationships, and higher profits. ~Chip Conley, Founder, Joie de Vivre Hotels and author, Peak and Emotional Equations

Give and Take is a game changer. Reading Adam Grant's compelling book will change the way doctors doctor, managers manage, teachers teach, and bosses boss. It will create a society in which people do better by being better. Read the book and change the way you live and work. ~Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice and Practical Wisdom

Give and Take is a new behavioral benchmark for doing business for better, providing an inspiring new perspective on how to succeed to the benefit of all. Adam Grant provides great support for the new paradigm of creating a win win for people, planet and profit with many fabulous insights and wonderful stories to get you fully hooked and infected with wanting to give more and take less." ~Jochen Zeitz, former CEO and chairman, PUMA

Give and Take is a real gift. Adam Grant delivers a triple treat: stories as good as a well-written novel, surprising insights drawn from rigorous science, and advice on using those insights to catapult ourselves and our organizations to success. I cant think of another book with more powerful implications for both business and life. ~Teresa Amabile, author of The Progress Principle

Adam Grant has written a landmark book that examines what makes some extraordinarily successful people so great. By introducing us to highly-impressive individuals, he proves that, contrary to popular belief, the best way to climb to the top of the ladder is to take others up there with you. Give and Take presents the road to success for the 21st century. ~Maria Eitel, founding CEO and President of the Nike Foundation

What The No *sshole Rule did for corporate culture, Give and Take does for each of us as individuals. Grant presents an evidence-based case for the counterintuitive link between generosity and finishing first. ~Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, coauthors of Difficult Conversations

Adam Grant is a wunderkind. He has won every distinguished research award and teaching award in his field, and his work has changed the way that people see the world. If you want to be surprisedvery pleasantly surprisedby what really drives success, then Give and Take is for you. If you want to make the world a better place, read this book. If you want to make your life better, read this book. ~Tal Ben-Shahar, author of Happier

In an era of business literature that drones on with the same-old, over-used platitudes, Adam Grant forges brilliant new territory. Give and Take helps readers understand how to maximize their effectiveness and help others simultaneously. It will serve as a new framework for both insight and achievement. A must read! ~Josh Linkner, founder of ePrize, CEO of Detroit Venture Partners, and author of Disciplined Dreaming

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What is Meditation?

Meditation is a simple yet profound method to improve the quality of our lives and develop inner peace. Through following very simple, practical instructions we can learn to let go of the causes of our pain and dissatisfaction and to gain the inner peace and clarity we seek. We offer a wide range of classes from basic introductions to Buddhist meditation, applying Buddhas teachings to daily life issues such as anger and improving relationships, to comprehensive study programs of Buddhist view, meditation and action. Everyone is welcome.

How to Get Started Our weekly classes are a great place to start. A typical class will include teachings, two guided meditations and a question & answer session. Taught by qualified Western teachers, the meditation classes are very easy to understand and apply to our daily lives. The classes are suitable for both beginners and more advanced meditation practitioners, and emphasize how to meditate and practice in our NY urban environment.

In the area In the area, we have centers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and other locations throughout New York and New Jersey. From time to time we gather as a family at the Kadampa Meditation Center, home of our national Temple, for festivals, special courses, and retreats. Please feel free to drop in for a visit. Before and after class there is always someone on hand to answer your questions. Alternatively, you may contact us via email at: [emailprotected] or phone at: (917) 4035227

Tell me more about Vajradhara Meditation Center Vajradhara Meditation Center was established to provide people living in Brooklyn with the opportunity to learn about meditation and practice Buddhist teachings. To fulfill this aim we have a space in Boerum Hill, located at 444 AtlanticAve (between Nevins and Bond). We also offer branch classes at various locations throughout Brooklyn. The Center is run by volunteers who themselves are dedicated practitioners, and we have a warm and welcoming community. Vajradhara Meditation Center is a member of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). The NKT is an International Union of Kadampa Buddhist Centers. There are currently over 1,000 centers worldwide.

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Osho

Osho is a mystic who brings the timeless wisdom of the East to bear on the urgent questions facing men and women today. He speaks of the search for harmony and wholeness that lies at the core of all religious and spiritual traditions, illuminating the essence of Christianity, Hassidism, Buddhism, Sufism, Tantra, Tao, Yoga, and Zen. Further information at http://www.osho.com.

Oshos vision is a new man. After his enlightenment in 1953, the evolution of that new man became his whole work. In 1963 he left the academic world where he had taught philosophy at the University of Jabalpur and began speaking to tens of thousands across India. He then focused intensely on developing practical tools for mans transformation. Modern man, he said, is so burdened with traditions of the past and anxieties of modern-day living, that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can begin to discover the thought-free relaxed state of meditation.

Meditation Hall Pune, India

In 1974, a campus was established around him in Poona, India, and a trickle of visitors from the West soon became a flood. Today this campas has become the largest meditation resort and spiritual-growth center in the world. Each year it attracts thousands of international visitors to its meditation, therapy, bodywork and creative programs.

In the course of his work, Osho speaks on virtually every aspect of the development of human consciousness. His talks cover a staggering range from the meaning of life and death to the struggles of power and politics; from the challenges of love and creativity to the significance of science and education.

Osho, who was born in India in 1931 and left his body in 1990, belongs to no tradition. He says, My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation.

Osho Leela Center in Boulder offers initiation into Sannyas The Way of the Seeker. Sannyas is the path of awakening created by Osho.

Original mala given by Osho to his sannyasins. It looks slightly different now.

Sannyas is a heartfelt, sincere commitment to yourself and to your own spiritual growth. It is a vow or statement that the most important thing in your life is to become more conscious, more aware, more loving and more awake.

Sannyas is inclusive, meaning that it includes all aspects of life. It is not a retreat or a renunciation. It embraces all that life offers including work, play, travel and relationships. A sannyasin works with any of the great spiritual traditions of the world finding inspiration and tools, techniques and meditations that can benefithim or her on his spiritual journey.

Surrender is an important aspect of sannyas, meaning the surrender to a higher aspect of the divine or supreme consciousness or whatever name or form for the ultimate that one may want to use. To become a sannyasin is a life changing surrender to the truth of your being and a commitment to find your way home.

Avinash has written a great article on sannyas today and the Osho Leela Center called Sannyas: Into the Stream. Its about what attracts new people to Osho, why they take sannyas now, and whats in it for everyone (hint: a LOT of juice). Read it >>.

If you are interested or ready for such a step or need more information contact Punitama1@haikudesigns.com 720-300-9312

Here at Osho Leela we will be celebrating his life by meditating.

5.30 PM Kundalini

6.45 PM I leave you my Dream Video

7.30 PM Ancient Music in the Pines #8 Audio Discourse

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With Love and Gratitude to Life, Existence and Osho

Beloved Osho, the fruit falls on the ground when it is ripe. One day, You will leave us, and it will be impossible to have another master in Your place. How can anybody else be the substitute for the Master of Masters? 0sho, when You leave the physical body, will Your meditation techniques help our inner growth as they do now?

My approach to your growth is basically to make you independent of me. Any kind of dependence is a slavery, and the spiritual dependence is the worst slavery of all. I have been making every effort to make you aware of your individuality, your freedom, your absolute capacity to grow without any help from anybody. Your growth is something intrinsic to your being. It does not come from outside; it is not an imposition, it is an unfolding.

All the meditation techniques that I have given to you are not dependent on me my presence or absence will not make any difference they are dependent on you. It is not my presence, but your presence that is needed for them to work. It is not my being here but your being here, your being in the present, your being alert and aware that is going to help. I can understand your question and its relevance. It is not irrelevant. The whole past of man is, in different ways, a history of exploitation. And even the so called spiritual people could not resist the temptation to exploit. Out of a hundred masters, ninety-nine percent were trying to impose the idea that, Without me you cannot grow, no progress is possible. Give me your whole responsibility.

But the moment you give your whole responsibility to somebody, unknowingly you are also giving your whole freedom. And naturally, all those masters had to die one day, but they have left long lines of slaves: Christians, Jews, Hindus, Mohammedans. What are these people? Why should somebody be a Christian? If you can be someone, be a Christ, never be a Christian. Are you absolutely blind to the humiliation when you call yourself a Christian, a follower of someone who died two thousand years ago?

The whole of humanity is following the dead. Is it not weird that the living should follow the dead, that the living should be dominated by the dead, that the living should depend on the dead and their promises that `We will be coming to save you.? None of them has come to save you. In fact, nobody can save anybody else; it goes against the foundational truth of freedom and individuality.

As far as I am concerned, I am simply making every effort to make you free from everybody including me and to just be alone on the path of searching. This existence respects a person who dares to be alone in the seeking of truth. Slaves are not respected by existence at all. They do not deserve any respect; they dont respect themselves, how can they expect existence to be respectful towards them? So remember, when I am gone, you are not going to lose anything. Perhaps you may gain something of which you are absolutely unaware. Right now I am available to you only embodied, imprisoned in a certain shape and form. When I am gone, where can I go? I will be here in the winds, in the ocean; and if you have loved me, if you have trusted me, you will feel me in a thousand and one ways. In your silent moments you will suddenly feel my presence. Once I am unembodied, my consciousness is universal. Right now you have to come to me. Then, you will not need to seek and search for me. Wherever you are your thirst, your love and you will find me in your very heart, in your very heartbeat. ~Osho

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Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain. Osho

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love. Osho

A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love. Osho

Be realistic: plan for a miracle. Osho

Life is nothing but an opportunity for love to blossom. Osho

God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. Osho

If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Osho

Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness. Osho

Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar. Osho

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. Osho

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind. Osho

To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. Osho

Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Osho

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. Osho

Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun. Osho

Real spirituality is the greatest rebellion there is. It is risky, it is adventurous, it is dangerous. Osho

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too. Osho

Yoga is the science to be in the here and now. Osho

Yoga means now you will have to be a harmony, you will have to become one. Osho

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. Osho

An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not... he has not any conflict with the whole. He has fallen in harmony, he is in a harmonia. Osho

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. Osho

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration. Osho

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature. Osho

Zen is an effort to become alert and awake. Osho

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