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Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.
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Anthon St. Maarten
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While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.
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Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
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Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Be yourself and become wealthy!
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Stephen Richards
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Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
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Germany Kent
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There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
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Stephen Richards
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Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
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Stephen Richards
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Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.
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Stephen Richards
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To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.
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Stephen Richards
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Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.
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Germany Kent
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Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!
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Stephen Richards
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The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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For a long while I have believed β this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Camaβs belief in a fourth function of outsideness β that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers as belongers, perhaps; that, in sum, the phenomenon may be as βnaturalβ a manifestation of human nature as its opposite, but one that has been mostly frustrated, throughout human history, by lack of opportunity.
And not only by that: for those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainly, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we pretend to be motivated by loyalties and solidarities we do not really feel, we hide our secret identities beneath the false skins of those identities which bear the belongersβ seal of approval.
But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds (because we are all alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves), we soar, we fly, we flee. And in the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the non-belongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
What we forbid ourselves we pay good money to watch, in a playhouse or a movie theater, or to read about between the secret covers of a book. Our libraries, our palaces of entertainment tell the truth. The tramp, the assassin, the rebel, the thief, the mutant, the outcast, the delinquent, the devil, the sinner, the traveler, the gangster, the runner, the mask: if we did not recognize in them our least-fulfilled needs, we would not invent them over and over again, in every place, in every language, in every time.
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Salman Rushdie (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
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Whatever your mind believes, your body will manifest.
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Olivia Fox Cabane (The Charisma Myth: How to Engage, Influence and Motivate People)
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Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.
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Stephen Richards
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No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!
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Stephen Richards
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Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that "falling in love" is love or at least one of the manifestations of love. It is a potent misconception, because falling in love is subjectively experienced in a very powerful fashion as an experience of love. When a person falls in love what he or she certainly feels is "I love him" or "I love her."
But two problems are immediately apparent. The first is that the experience of falling in love is specifically a sex-linked erotic experience. We do not fall in love with our children even though we may love them very deeply. We do not fall in love with our friends of the same sex-unless we are homosexually oriented-even though we may care for them greatly. We fall in love only when we are consciously or unconsciously sexually motivated. The second problem is that the experience of falling in love is invariably temporary. No matter whom we fall in love with, we sooner or later fall out of love if the relationship continues long enough. This is not to say that we invariably cease loving the person with whom we fell in love. But it is to say that the feeling of ecstatic lovingness that characterizes the experience of falling in love always passes. The honeymoon always ends. The bloom of romance always fades.
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M. Scott Peck (The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth)
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Run and hide or rise and shine ...
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Stephen Richards
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Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!)
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Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.
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Christopher Babson (Breakout Presentations: "WOW!" People in Business and Life)
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It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.
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Stephen Richards
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Become your own success story, not someone else's.
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Stephen Richards
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Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.
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Stephen Richards
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Remove whatever you no longer need in your life, to make room for what you do need in your life.
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Avis J. Williams
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Your reality is a reflection of yourself
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Avis J. Williams
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Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!
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Stephen Richards
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How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in the outside
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.
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Avis J. Williams
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Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of the soul.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Thoughts create emotions, emotions create feelings and feelings create behaviour. So itβs very important that our thoughts are positive, to attract the right people, events and circumstances into our lives.
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Avis J. Williams (The Psychic Mind: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth)
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Victim mentality only creates helplessness, the most maddening, miserable and upsetting of mental states. In fact, it is commonly reported that nothing triggers madness like a sense of helplessness. It is a cousin of paranoia, a sense that the world is out to get you, that there is some opposition, some rivalry between you and the world. This is a warped, twisted mentality that offers no benefits, and, more importantly, is manifestly false.
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Armstrong Williams
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Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the great motive power, the soul of the universe. And the sole instrument of life was heredity, which made the world; so that if one could only understand it, master it and make it do one's bidding, one could remake the world at will.
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Γmile Zola (Le Docteur Pascal (Les Rougon-Macquart #20))
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You will manifest your sacred character when you connect to the Creator.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.
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Germany Kent
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(...) never play to the gallery, but you never learn that until much later on, I think. Never work for other people. Always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest it in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you coexist with the rest of society. I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations. I think they generally produce their worst work when they do that.
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David Bowie
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Naysayers can't prevent your brilliance and purpose from entering the world. It will seep under doors like water flooding into a room. Its shafts will beam through windows like dazzling rays on a bright, summery morning. Within the sunlight are galaxies and constellations filled with opportunities for you to take. All you have to do is create the environment for its manifestation and keep striving, keep going.
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Keisha Blair (Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom)
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To change your life, you need to become aware of yourself
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Avis J. Williams
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The aim of the artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably but to make people love life in all its countless inexhaustible manifestations.
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Leo Tolstoy
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We canβt control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we canβt control.
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Avis J. Williams
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The universe only exist within us. All of what is outside of us is also within us.
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Avis J. Williams
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We human beings often see only what is before our eyes. But God in His infinite justice searches the heart and our secret motives and manifests accordingly to us His mercy.
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Robert K. Massie (Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman)
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Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.
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Michelle Cruz-Rosado
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If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.
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Avis J. Williams
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Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.
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Avis J. Williams
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Focus on what you can do right now, not what you can't do right now
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Avis J. Williams
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The real winners I've met in life weren't necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up.
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Curtis Rivers (Seven Paths to Freedom)
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Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever.
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Stephen Richards
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To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge. Knowledge would be empty if it were not motivated by concern. There are many layers of knowledge; the knowledge which is an aspect of love is one which does not stay at the periphery, but penetrates to the core. It is possible only when I can transcend the concern for myself and see the other person in his own terms. I may know, for instance, that a person is angry, even if he does not show it overtly; but I may know him more deeply than that; then I know that he is anxious, and worried; that he feels lonely, that he feels guilty. Then I know that his anger is only the manifestation of something deeper, and I see him as anxious and embarrassed, that is, as the suffering person, rather than as the angry one.
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Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving)
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...I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny.
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John D. MacDonald (The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1))
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If a man works without any selfish motive in view, does he not gain anything? Yes, he gains the highest. Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. It is more paying from the point of view of health also. Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power. In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant. It is hard to do it, but in the heart of our hearts we know its value, and the good it brings. It is the greatest manifestation of power β this tremendous restraint; self-restraint is a manifestation of greater power than all outgoing action.
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I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness. We didn't want money. What for? We could get by, living off parents, friends or the State And if we were going to be bored, and we were usually bored, rarely being self-motivated, we could at least be bored on our own terms, lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine. I didn't want to work in a place where I couldn't wear my fur coat.
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Hanif Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia)
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Now, your skill as a speaker can manifest itself in a variety of ways. You might simply have encyclopedic knowledge about many topics. Or you might be intelligent, able to deduce new facts and explanations on the fly. Or you might have sharp eyes and ears, able to notice things that other people miss. Or you might be plugged into valuable sources of information, always on top of the latest news, gossip, and trends. But listeners may not particularly care how youβre able to impress, as long as youβre consistently able to do so. If youβre a reliable source of new information, youβre likely to make a good teammate, especially as the team faces unforeseeable situations in the future. In other words, listeners care less about the tools you share with them; theyβre really salivating over your backpack.
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Kevin Simler (The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life)
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May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes, to positively inspire you daily (The Soulful Pathway, #2))
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Act and opportunities will manifest. There is no such thing as luck. There is only causality. Are you strong enough to cause something to happen β thatβs the question.
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Abhijit Naskar (7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All)
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Nobody is really an expert, as we are all still learning.
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Avis J. Williams
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When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!)
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Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!)
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Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!)
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To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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When you tune into your soul essence and are in harmony with the Supreme, you are tapped into your superpowers.
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Sharon Kirstin (The Answers Within)
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Love thy soul, manifest thy light
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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With a burning ambition, sustained focus, and daily action - there simply are no limits to what you will achieve.
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Curtis Rivers (Seven Paths to Freedom)
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The process of manifestation is a dance between being and becoming.
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Russ Kyle (Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation)
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Your reality is not affecting you, it's reflecting you.
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Our thoughts, imbued with intention and emotion, act as magnets, drawing to us the people, situations, and experiences that resonate with our inner state.
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Russ Kyle (Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation)
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Living as a channel for giving and receiving invites us to view our lives from a broader perspective, seeing ourselves as integral parts of a vast, interconnected system.
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Russ Kyle (Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation)
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The intentions or motives that underlie all of our words and actions plant seeds. Certain kinds of intentions will inevitably bear fruits of the same type. This also is an infallible law of nature. Wholesome intentions- like lovingkindness, compassion, honesty, and respect for the lives and property of others- if they manifest in action will sooner or later bear us the fruits of happiness. Unwholesome intentions - like hatred, cruelty, duplicity - will bear us the fruits of suffering if we express them in words or deeds. No action is without consequences.
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Sharon Salzberg (Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Library))
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Our lives reflect our inner image. If we think weβre worth it, that worth will manifest in our lives. If we think weβre not worthy, weβll live in lack. Believe your worth it and you will become worth it.
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In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent design. Even though writers like Michael Behe and Stephen C. Meyer are motivated at least in part by their religious beliefs, the empirical arguments they offer against the likelihood that the origin of life and its evolutionary history can be fully explained by physics and chemistry are of great interest in themselves. Another skeptic, David Berlinski, has brought out these problems vividly without reference to the design inference. Even if one is not drawn to the alternative of an explanation by the actions of a designer, the problems that these iconoclasts pose for the orthodox scientific consensus should be taken seriously. They do not deserve the scorn with which they are commonly met. It is manifestly unfair.
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What these motivational teachers are saying (as Iβve realized after a long time) is that if something is really important to you, you will do everything necessary to ensure that it comes into your life. This teaching, if applied within the current framework, means that youβll work on your inner state, no matter what it takes. Youβll focus exclusively on how you feel on the inside to the exclusion of everything else. Youβll not allow yourself to be bogged down by fear or negative thoughts. Youβll be persistent in your practice and overcoming your past conditioning. Youβll be determined. But notice that all our determination is channeled and focused on letting go of negative and fear thoughts. They are not focused upon outer directed actions to get what we want.
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Richard Dotts (Come and Sit with Me: How to Desire Nothing and Manifest Everything)
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Speak positivity to yourself daily and repeatedly. You can manifest positivity into your life simply by speaking it and believing it. When you're able to speak and see what you want for yourself, you will be able to make the things you seek a reality!
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Gabriella Marigold Lindsay (Living F.I.T.: A 40-Day Guide to Living Faithfully, Intentionally, and Tenaciously)
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The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering oneβs self to benevolent external forces.
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Stephen Richards
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Your hopes and dreams are like a giant helium balloon, tugging on your hand to take you above the clouds, to that quiet place of peace and contentment. All you have to do is stop resisting, to let go - and ALLOW your hopes and dreams to take you there.
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Curtis Rivers (Seven Paths to Freedom)
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The basic principle of health, well-being, and the action of healing is the presumption of prior perfection rather than the motivating problem. We must be established in the presumption that Truth is always already the case, and therefore, the perfect form of any condition is already, priorly, and presently true of it. It is not that "I" am a problem or disease to be cured (or a hopeless sinner to be saved). Rather, "I" am already and priorly one with the Perfect Condition and the perfect Form of all conditions that presently pertain, and "I" am simply operating in order to manifest it (or allow it to manifest itself) in the play of experience.
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Adi Da Samraj (The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health)
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...below even our most obscure physical consciousness is a subconscious being in which as in a covering and supporting soil are all manner of hidden seeds that sprout up, unaccountably to us, on our surface and into which we are constantly throwing fresh seeds that prolong our past and will influence our future,--a subconscious being, obscure, small in its motions, capriciously and almost fantastically subrational, but of an immense potency for the earth-life. Again behind our mind, our life, our conscious physical there is a larger subliminal consciousness,--there are inner mental, inner vital, inner more subtle physical reaches supported by an inmost psychic existence which is the connecting soul of all the rest; and in these hidden reaches too lie a mass of numerous pre-existent personalities which supply the material, the motive-forces, the impulsions of our developing surface existence. For in each of us here there may be one central person, but also a multitude of subordinate personalities created by the past history of its manifestation or by expressions of it on these inner planes which support its present play in this external material cosmos...
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Sri Aurobindo
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Looking back on the fifty years since I first became aware of its flaws, the word that summarizes my feelings about Neoclassical economics today is that it is, as Marx once described the proto-Neoclassical Jean-Baptiste Say, βdullβ [...] Its vision of capitalism at its best is a system manifesting the harmony of equilibrium, where everyone is paid their just return (their βmarginal productβ), growth is occurring smoothly at a rate that maximizes social utility through time, and everyone is motivated by consumption β rather than accumulation and power β because, to quote Say, βthe producers, though they have all of them the air of demanding money for their goods, do in reality demand merchandise for their merchandiseβ [...]
What a bland picture of the complex, changing world in which we live!
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Steve Keen (The New Economics: A Manifesto)
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Naysayers canβt prevent your brilliance and purpose from entering the world. It will seep under doors like water flooding into a room. Its shafts will beam through windows like the dazzling rays on a bright, summery morning. Within the sunlight are galaxies and constellations filled with opportunities for you to take. Your radiance will materialize, even when you least expect it. All you have to do is create the environment for its manifestation and keep striving, keep going toward your mission.
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Hence, it is quite conceivable that even the sense of guilt engendered by civilization is not recognized as such, but remains for the most part unconscious, or manifests itself as an unease, a discontent, for which other motivations are sought. The religions, at least, have never ignored the part that a sense of guilt plays in civilization. Moreover - a point I failed to appreciate earlier - they claim to redeem humanity from this sense of guilt, which they call sin. From the way in which this redemption is achieved in Christianity - through the sacrificial death of one man, who thereby takes upon himself the guilt shared by all - we drew an inference as to what may have been the original occasion for our acquiring this primordial guilt, which also marked the beginning of civilization.
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The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this is meant that it has no motive of its own, but is under the necessity of manifesting your concept, the arrangement of your mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all you believe and consent to as true. The rich man, poor man, beggar man or thief are not different minds, but different arrangements of the same mind, in the same sense that a piece of steel when magnetized differs not in substance from its demagnetized state but in the arrangement and order of its molecules. A single electron revolving in a specified orbit constitutes the unit of magnetism.
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Neville Goddard (The Power of Awareness)
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I hear the things God has spoken about me, and I want so badly to believe them. I want to believe that Iβm filled with the Spirit, as He says I am. But if Iβm filled with the Spirit, why am I so often led by my selfishness? Why are my motives constantly compromised by socially acceptable expressions of envy and subtle manifestations of greed? If what God says about me is right, why canβt I live the way I claim to believe?
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Throughout the human life span there remains a constant two-way interaction between psychological states and the neurochemistry of the frontal lobes, a fact that many doctors do not pay enough attention to. One result is the overreliance on medications in the treatment of mental disorders. Modern psychiatry is doing too much listening to Prozac and not enough listening to human beings; peopleβs life histories should be given at least as much importance as the chemistry of their brains. The dominant tendency is to explain mental conditions by deficiencies of the brainβs chemical messengers, the neurotransmitters.
As Daniel J. Siegel has sharply remarked, βWe hear it said everywhere these days that the experience of human beings comes from their chemicals.β Depression, according to the simple biochemical model, is due to a lack of serotonin β and, it is said, so is excessive aggression. The answer is Prozac, which increases serotonin levels in the brain. Attention deficit is thought to be due in part to an undersupply of dopamine, one of the brainβs most important neurotransmitters, crucial to attention and to experiencing reward states. The answer is Ritalin. Just as Prozac elevates serotonin levels, Ritalin or other psychostimulants are thought to increase the availability of dopamine in the brainβs
prefrontal areas.
This is believed to increase motivation and attention by improving the functioning of areas in the prefrontal cortex. Although they carry some truth, such biochemical explanations of complex mental states are dangerous oversimplifications β as the neurologist Antonio Damasio cautions: "When it comes to explaining behavior and mind, it is not enough to mention neurochemistry... The problem is that it is not the absence or low amount of serotonin per se that βcausesβ certain manifestations.
Serotonin is part of an exceedingly complicated mechanism which operates at the level of molecules, synapses, local circuits, and systems, and in which sociocultural factors, past and present, also intervene powerfully. The deficiencies and imbalances of brain chemicals are as much effect as cause. They are greatly influenced by emotional experiences. Some experiences deplete the supply of neurotransmitters; other experiences enhance them. In turn, the availability β or lack of availability β
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Gabor MatΓ© (Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It)
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Women are taught to sacrifice, to play nice, to live an altruistic life because a good girl is always rewarded in the end. This is not a virtue; it is propaganda. Submission gets you a ticket to future prosperity that will never manifest. By the time you realize the ticket to success and happiness you have been sold isnβt worth the paper it was printed on, it will be too late. Go on, spend a quarter of your life, even half of your life, in the service of others and you will realize you were hustled. You do not manifest your destiny by placing others first! A kingdom built on your back doesnβt become your kingdom, it becomes your folly. History does not remember the slaves of Egypt that built the pyramids, they remember the Pharaohs that wielded the power over those laborers. Yet here you are, content with being a worker bee, motivated by some sales pitch that inspires you to work harder for some master than you work for yourself, with this loose promise that one day you will share in his wealth. Altruism is your sin. Selfishness is your savior. Ruthless aggression and self-preservation are not evil. Why arenβt females taught these things? Instead of putting themselves first, women are told to be considerate and selfless. From birth, they have been beaten in the head with this notion of βDonβt be selfish!β Fuck that. Your mother may have told you to wait your turn like a good girl, but Iβm saying cut in front of that other bitch. Club Success is about to hit capacity, and you donβt want to be the odd woman out. Where are the powerful women? Those who refuse to play by those rules and want more out of life than what a man allows her to have? I created a category for such women and labeled them Spartans. Much like the Greek warriors who fought against all odds, these women refuse to surrender and curtsy before the status quo. Being
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G.L. Lambert (Men Don't Love Women Like You: The Brutal Truth About Dating, Relationships, and How to Go from Placeholder to Game Changer)
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She was convinced that men didnβt give a damn about other peopleβs feelings and that they got away with whatever they wanted. Women couldnβt be trusted either. They were too weak to stand up for themselves, and theyβd sell their bodies to get men to take care of them. If you were in trouble, they wouldnβt lift a finger to help you. This worldview manifested itself in the way Marilyn approached her colleagues at work: She was suspicious of the motives of anyone who was kind to her and called them on the slightest deviation from the nursing regulations. As for herself: She was a bad seed, a fundamentally toxic person who made bad things happen to those around her.
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Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma)
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Buddha is the only prophet who said, "I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is." He was, in the conduct of his life, absolutely without personal motives; and what man worked more than he? Show me in history one character who has soared so high above all. The whole human race has produced but one such character, such high philosophy, such wide sympathy. This great philosopher, preaching the highest philosophy, yet had the deepest sympathy for the lowest of animals, and never put forth any claims for himself. He is the ideal Karma-Yogi, acting entirely without motive, and the history of humanity shows him to have been the greatest man ever born; beyond compare the greatest combination of heart and brain that ever existed, the greatest soul-power that has even been manifested. He is the first great reformer the world has seen. He was the first who dared to say, "Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, because you have been made to believe it from your childhood; but reason it all out, and after you have analysed it, then, if you find that it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others to live up to it." He works best who works without any motive, neither for money, nor for fame, nor for anything else; and when a man can do that, he will be a Buddha, and out of him will come the power to work in such a manner as will transform the world. This man represents the very highest ideal of Karma-Yoga.
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Vivekananda (Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda)
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Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies' dresses, beer, restaurantsβall bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs.
With much that was spoken and written on the subject Konyshev did not agree in detail. He saw that the Slav question had become one of those fashionable diversions which, ever succeeding one another, serve to occupy Society; he saw that too many people took up the question from interested motives. He admitted that the papers published much that was unnecessary and exaggerated with the sole aim of drawing attention to themselves, each outcrying the other. He saw that amid this general elation in Society those who were unsuccessful or discontented leapt to the front and shouted louder than anyone else: Commanders-in-Chief without armies, Ministers without portfolios, journalists without papers, and party leaders without followers. He saw that there was much that was frivolous and ridiculous; but he also saw and admitted the unquestionable and ever-growing enthusiasm which was uniting all classes of society, and with which one could not help sympathizing. The massacre of our coreligionists and brother Slavs evoked sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against their oppressors. And the heroism of the Serbs and Montenegrins, fighting for a great cause, aroused in the whole nation a desire to help their brothers not only with words but by deeds.
Also there was an accompanying fact that pleased Koznyshev. It was the manifestation of public opinion. The nation had definitely expressed its wishes. As Koznyshev put it, ' the soul of the nation had become articulate.' The more he went into this question, the clearer it seemed to him that it was a matter which would attain enormous proportions and become epoch-making.
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Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
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The bottom of the lake is our own true Self; the lake is the Chitta and the waves the Vrittis. Again, the mind is in three states, one of which is darkness, called Tamas, found in brutes and idiots; it only acts to injure. No other idea comes into that state of mind. Then there is the active state of mind, Rajas, whose chief motives are power and enjoyment. "I will be powerful and rule others." Then there is the state called Sattva, serenity, calmness, in which the waves cease, and the water of the mind-lake becomes clear. It is not inactive, but rather intensely active. It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. It is easy to be active. Let the reins go, and the horses will run away with you. Anyone can do that, but he who can stop the plunging horses is the strong man. Which requires the greater strength, letting go or restraining? The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.
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Vivekananda (Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda)
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The assumptions that propagandists are rational, in the sense that they follow their own propaganda theories in their choice of communications, and that the meanings of propagandists' communications may differ for different people reoriented the FCC* analysts from a concept of "content as shared" (Berelson would later say "manifest") to conditions that could explain the motivations of particular communicators and the interests they might serve.
The notion of "preparatory propaganda" became an especially useful key for the analysts in their effort to infer the intents of broadcasts with political content. In order to ensure popular support for planned military actions, the Axis leaders had to inform; emotionally arouse, and otherwise prepare their countrymen and women to accept those actions; the FCC analysts discovered that they could learn a great deal about the enemy's intended actions by recognizing such preparatory efforts in the domestic press and broadcasts. They were able to predict several major military and political campaigns and to assess Nazi elites' perceptions of their situation, political changes within the Nazi governing group, and shifts in relations among Axis countries.
Among the more outstanding predictions that British analysts were able to make was the date of deployment of German V weapons against Great Britain. The analysts monitored the speeches delivered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and inferred from the content of those speeches what had interfered with the weapons' production and when. They then used this information to predict the launch date of the weapons, and their prediction was accurate within a few weeks.
*FCC - Federal Communications Commission
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Klaus H. Krippendorff (Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology)