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21 Days to F ind Success and Inner P eace  draws fr om Dr . Wayne W . Dyer’s
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Publisher’s Note
Introduction
Day 1:  Be Open to Everything
Day 2:  Be A ttached to Nothing
Day 3:  Don’t Die with Y our Music Still in Y ou
Day 4:  Being P assionate Means T aking Risks
Day 5:  You Can’t Give A way What Y ou Don’t Have
Day 6:  Your P urpose Is to Serve
Day 7:  Embrace Silence
Day 8:  Making Conscious Contact with God
Day 9:  Give Up Y our P ersonal History
Day 10:  All You Get Is Now
Day 11:  You Can’t Solve a P roblem with the Mindset That
Created It
Day 12:  The Thr ee Levels of Consciousness
Day 13:  Ther e Are No Justiﬁed R esentmentsDay 14:  Stop L ooking for Occasions to Be Oﬀended
Day 15:  Treat Y ourself as If Y ou Alr eady Ar e What Y ou’d
Like to Be
Day 16:  Synchr onicity and Inspiration
Day 17:  Inspir e Others
Day 18:  Treasur e Your Divinity
Day 19:  Trust the Spiritual Sour ce
Day 20:  Wisdom Is A voiding All Thoughts That W eaken You
Day 21:  Thoughts That Str engthen Y ou
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of this book. 21 Days to Find Success and Inner Peace  draws from Wayne
W. Dyer’s best-selling 10 Secrets for Success and Inner
Peace  (Hay House, 2001) and Inspiration  (Hay House, 2006). OceanofPDF .comIntroduction
There’s neve r a day that goes by that I don’t think about
God. More than thinking,  I experience the presence of God
in most of my waking moments. It’s a feeling of
contentment and satisfaction that’s beyond anything that I
might convey in a book. I’ve come to know the peace of
Spirit in my life, and because of this knowing, all of my
concer ns, problems, accomplishments, and accumulations
diminish in importance. In this short book, I will elaborate on
principles to success and inner peace, which, if master ed
and practiced on a daily basis, will also guide you to this
same sense of tranquility . These principles are valuable for anyone who has decided to
consciously be on their life path. Each of us makes that
choice depen ding on our individual time clock. For some, it’s
early in young adulthood ; and for others, it happens in the
middle or matur e years. The principles apply whether you’r e
just beginning your life path, ar e nearing the end of it, or ar e
on the path in any way . Most books of this sort stress the importance of hard work,
dedication, ﬁnancial planning, relationship strategies,
choosing the right career, listening to one’s elders, being
respectful of the rules, setting realistic goals, living ahealthy lifestyle, and being in a state of gratitude. This is
good advice and certainly beneﬁts those who choose to
listen to and apply this wisdom. It is my experience,
however, both as a lifelong teacher and a father of eight
childr en, that this kind of advice by itself leads one to
wondering, Is that all ther e is? So, I have no advice on goal setting, putting your nose to
the grindstone, planning your ﬁnancial futur e, listening to
older folks, respecting your cultur e, and so on. In fact, I’ve
almost always listened to my own impulses, paying the
price for taking the road “least traveled” and resisting
enculturation, so it would be somewhat hypocritical of me to
now tell you to do what I say and follow my rules . Instead,
what I oﬀer you are principles that allow your spirit  to guide
you. In my experience working with a variety of people over
several decades, far too many individuals choose to be
anonymous members of the pack, therefore suﬀering from
the inner remorse that makes them feel like failur es, ﬁlled
with conﬂict  and resentment and wondering what the
meaning of life is. So, I’ve written this book in the hopes that it will help you
avoid those feelings of inadequacy and help you feel the
peace of God that truly deﬁnes success. Read these
principles with an open heart. Apply the ones that resonate
with you, and discar d those that don’t. When you feel peaceful and successful, you want to extend
and export that peace and love. The violence, hatred,
prejudice, and judgment in our world suggest that we have
miles to go to r each a world of inner and outer peace. I send you love and all gr een lights.OceanofPDF .comBe Open to Everything
One of the fundamental keys to success and inner peace is
allowing yourself to be open to the inﬁnite array of
possibilities in your life. This is our topic for today . Having a mind that is open to everything sounds easy until
you think about how much conditioning has taken place in
your life, and how many of your current thoughts were
inﬂuenced by geography, the religious beliefs of your
ancestors, the color of your skin, the political orientation of
your parents, your size, your gender, the schools that were
selected for you, and the vocation of your great-
grandpar ents, to list only some possibilities.You showed up here as a tiny infant capable of an inﬁnite
number of potentialities . Many of your choices remain
unexplor ed because of a hopefully well-in tentioned
conditioning program designed to make you ﬁt the cultur e
of your caretakers. You probably had next to no opportunity
to disagr ee with the cultural and societal arrangements
made for your life. There may have been some adults who encouraged you to
have an open mind, but if you’r e honest with yourself, you
know that your philosophy  of life, your religious beliefs, your
manner of dress, and your language are a function of what
your society (and its heritage) deter mined was right for you. If you made any fuss about going against this preordained
conditioning, you probably heard even stronger voices
insisting that you get back in line and do things  the way
they have “always been done.” Fitting in superseded having
a mind that was open to new ideas. Whatever the reasons our ancestors may have had for not
having open minds, it’s true that they inhabited a much less
populated world than we do. In today’s overpopulated
world, we simply cannot  continue to live with those old
styles of closed-mindedness. Everything  means just what it says. No exceptions. When
someone suggests something to you that conﬂicts with your
conditioning, rather than responding with, “That’s
ridiculous; we all know that’s impossible,” say, “I’ve never
consider ed that befor e. I’ll think about it.” Open yourself up
to the spiritual ideas of all people, and listen with an open
mind to crazy schemes and ideas that at ﬁrst seem to be
outrageous. If someone suggests that crystals can cure
hemor rhoids, that natural herbs can lower cholest erol, that
people will eventually be able to breathe underwater, or
that levitation is possible—listen, and be curious.I urge you to open your mind to all possibilities, to resist any
eﬀorts to be pigeonholed , and to refuse to allow pessimism
into your consciousness. Having a mind that is open to
everything seems to me to be one of the most basic
principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and
world peace. No One Knows Enough to Be a
Pessimist
Find an opportunity to observe a tiny little green sprout
emer ging from a seed. When you do, allow yourself to feel
the awe of what you’r e seeing. The Suﬁ poet Rumi
observed, “Sell your clever ness and purchase
bewilder ment.” The scene of an emer ging sprout represents
the beginning of life. No one on this planet has even a tiny
clue as to how all this works. What is that creative spark
that causes the life to sprout? What created the observer,
the consciousness, the observation, and perception itself? The questions ar e endless. Nowadays, scientists in the space program can move a tiny
vehicle on Mars via remote contr ol. Invisible signals take 10
minutes to travel through space and arrive to make right
turns and instruct a scoop to pick up some Martian real
estate to examine. We all marvel at such technological
feats. But think about it for a moment. In an endless
universe, Mars, our closest neighbor, is the equivalent of
moving a billionth of an inch across the page you’r e
reading! We move a little vehicle on a neighbor next door
and we’r e so impr essed with ourselves. There are billions and billions of planets, objects, and stars
in our galaxy  alone, and there are uncountable billions ofgalaxies out there. This planet is a speck in an
incompr ehensibly vast universe that has no end. Think
about this: If we found the end, would there be a wall at the
edge of the universe? If so, who built it? Even more
perple xing, what’s on the other side of the wall, and how
thick is it? How can anyone be a pessimist in a world wher e we know
so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother’s womb a
few weeks after conception, and it’s a total mystery to
everyone on our planet. In comparison to what there is to
know, we are only embryo s. Keep this in mind when ever you
encounter those who are absolutely certain that there’s only
one way to do something. Resist being a pessimist. Resist with all your might , because
we hardly know anything  at all in comparison with what
there is to know . Can you imagine what a pessimist who
lived only 200 years ago would think about the world we live
in? Airplanes, electricity, automobiles, television, remote
contr ols, the Internet, fax machines, telephones, cellular
phones, and so on—and all available to us becaus e of that
spark of open-mindedness that allowed progress, growth,
and cr eativity to ﬂourish. And what of the futur e and all of your tomor rows? Can you
pictur e faxing yourself back to the 14th century, ﬂying
without machines, telepathically communicating, de-
molecularizing yourself and rearranging yourself on another
galaxy, or cloning a shee p from a photograph of a sheep? An open mind allows you to explor e and create and grow. A
closed mind  seals oﬀ any such creative explanation. Remember that progress would be impossible if we always
did things the way we always have. The ability to participate
in miracles—true miracles in your life—happens when you
open your mind to your limitless potential.The Miracle Mind-set
Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about
what you’r e capable of cr eating. As Michelangelo suggested,
the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and
you fail to reach them; it’s that they’r e too low and you do. Have within you an imaginary candle ﬂame that burns
brightly regardless of what goes befor e you. Let this inner
ﬂame represent for you the idea that you’r e capable of
manifesting miracles in your life. In every single case of a person experiencing a spontaneous
healing or overcoming something that was consider ed to be
impossible, the individual went through a complete reversal
of personality . They actually rewrote their own agreement
with reality . To experience Godlik e spontaneous miracles,
you must have a sense of yourself as Godlike. The
Scriptur es say, “With God all things are possible.” Now tell
me, what does that leave out? A mind that’s open to
everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing
forgiveness, being gener ous, respecting all life, and most
important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything
that you can conceive of in your mind and heart. Whatever
universal law that has ever been utilized to manifest a
miracle anyw here, any time, and in any person is still on the
books. It has never been repealed, and it never will be. You
possess the same energy, the same God consciousness, to
be a miracle work er—but only if you truly believe and know
it within yourself . Understand that what you think about expands (“As a man
think eth, so is he”). If your thoughts are ﬁlled with doubt
and you have a closed mind, you’ll of necessity act upon
those closed-minded doubts, and you’ll see evidence of your
thinking virtually everywher e you are. On the other hand,should you decide (mak e no mistak e about this, it is a
choice) to have a mind that’s open to everything, then you’ll
act upon that inner energy, and you’ll be the creator as well
as the recipient of miracles wher ever you are. You will
experience what Walt Whitman meant when he wrote, “To
me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
OceanofPDF .comBe Attached to Nothing
Once you decide to open your mind to everything, the next
step is to let go of all your attachments. We are going to
look at this topic today . A good place to start is to let go of your attach ments to
what you’ve been trained  to believe. Open your mind to all
possibilities, because whether you believe something is
possible or impossible, either way you’ll be right. How can
that be true? Your agreement with reality and all that’s
possible deter mines what you’ll become. If you’r e convinced
that you can’t become wealthy, famous, artistic, a
professional athlete, a great singer, or whatever, you will act
upon that inner convi ction that prevents you from
manifesting what you’d really like. All that you’ll get fromyour eﬀort is being right. When you need to be right, you’r e
attached to your conditio ned reﬂex of the way things are
and always have been; and you assume they will always be. Releasing Your Attachments
Your attachments are the source of all your problems. The
need to be right, to possess someone or something, to win
at all costs, to be viewed by others as superior—these are
all attachments. The open mind resists these attachments
and consequently e xperiences inner peace and success. If you think peaceful thoughts, you’ll feel peaceful emotions,
and that’s what you’ll bring to every life situation. If you’r e
attached to being right or absolutely need something in
order to be at peace or to be successful, you’ll live a life of
striving yet never ar riving. To release attachments, you have to make a shift in how you
view yourself . If your primary identiﬁcation is with your body
and your possessions, your ego is the dominant force in
your life. If you can tame your ego suﬃciently, you’ll call
upon your spirit to be the guiding force in your life. As a
spiritual being, you can observe your body and be a
compassionate witness to your existence. Your spiritual
aspect sees the folly of attachments because your spiritual
self is an inﬁnite soul. Nothing can make you happy or
successful. These are inner constructs that you bring to your
world, rather than what you r eceive fr om it. However, releasing your attachment, especially to
possessions, is not easy in this consumer -oriented world in
which you are bombar ded by advertising that continually
exhorts you to buy bigger, better, more. The ﬁrst step in
transcending such messages is to become awar e of what’sgoing on and realize that you don’t really need anything
else in order to be happy . You may need to say this to
yourself over and over until it sinks in: “Nothing can make
me happy . Happiness is what I bring to life, not what I
purchase.” This awar eness diminishes the annoyance of all
those commer cial messages, and at the same time allows
you to enjoy their creativity, because you’ve detached from
the ego messages and connected to Spirit. What I’m suggesting is that you can be free from the push
to convince yourself that you need more, while still being
able to enjoy the mater ial aspects of the world. In other
words, you know that you don’t need more, and at the same
time, you’re free to live happily and enjoy the world the way
it is. I want  this distinction to be clear because  it’s fun
enjoying a new automobile, well-made clothes, dinner in a
nice restaurant, an expensive piece of jewelry, or anything
else (includin g this book). What you want to avoid is the
inner belief that somehow your true essence is lacking if
you don’t get more possessions. You must also guard
against allowing this “stuﬀ” to deﬁne your worthiness, which
is what advertisers fr equently attempt to convey . When I allowed my awareness to purchase only what I
desir ed, I found myself less and less attached to stuﬀ. You
see, the more I have, the more it becomes almost
burdensome to store it, insur e it, dust it, decide if it’s tax
deductible, and ultimately dispose of it. These days I’m
almost amused by the advertising I’m subjected to, and
when it appears, I press my “spiritual mute button ” and feel
even happier  that I’m immune to the message that certain
brands can add status to my life. Trust Your Inner VisionIt’s possible to have a burning desir e yet not have
attachments. You can have an inner vision of what you
intend to manifest and still detach yourself from the
outcome. How? Consider this observation in A Course in
Miracles : “Inﬁn ite patience produces immediate results.” It
sounds like a parado x, doesn’t it? Inﬁnite patience implies
an absolute certainty that what you’d like to manifest will
indeed show up, in perfect order, and exactly on time. The
immediate result you receive from this inner knowing is a
sense of peace. When you detach from the outcome, you’r e
at peace, and you’ll ultimately see the fruits  of your
convictions. Suppose you had a choice between two magic wands. With
Wand A, you can have any physical thing you desir e by
simply waving it. With Wand B, you can have a sense of
peace for the rest of your life regardless of what
circumstances arise. Which would you pick? A guarantee of
stuﬀ, or inner peace for the remainder of your life? If you
opt for peace, then you already have Wand B. Simply have a
mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let
it all come and go as it will. Enjoy it all, but never make your
happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any
thing, any place, and particularly, any person. In all of your relationships , if you can love someone enough
to allow them to be e xactly what they choose to be—without
any expectat ions or attachments from you—you’ll know true
peace in your lifetime. True love means you love a person
for what they are, not for what you think they should be. This is an open mind—and an absence of attachment. OceanofPDF .comDon’t Die with Your Music
Still in You
Kahlil Gibran  said, “When you are born, your work is placed
in your heart.” So, what is your work? Ar e you living your life
the way your heart ur ges you to? That’s our topic for today . The world you live in is an intelligent system in which every
moving part is coordinated by every other moving part. There’s a universal life force that supports and orchestrates
everything. It all works together in perfect harmony. You are
one of those moving parts. You showed up here in the body
you inhabit, precisely on time. Your body will leave here with
the same pr ecision. Y ou’re an essential piece of this comple x
system. Here you are in this intelligent system that has nobeginning and no end, in which all of the galaxies  move in
harmony with each other . You must have shown up here for
a reason! Listening to Your Heart
Take a moment right now and point to yourself . Your ﬁnger is
very lik ely pointing right at your heart. Not at your brain, but
your heart. This is who you are. The constant beating of
your heart in and out, out and in, is a symbol of your inﬁnite
connection to the always-pr esent heartbeat of God, or the
Universal Intelligence. Your left brain calculates, ﬁgures
things out, analyzes, and comes up with the most logical
choices for you. It thinks, thinks, thinks! Your right brain
represents your intuitive side. This is the part of you that
goes beyond  reason and analysis. It’s the part of you that
feels things, that’s sensitive to love, that’s emotional about
what’s important to you. Your right brain allows you to tear
up as you hold your babies, or bask in the beauty of a
glorious day. Your left brain can analyze  it, while your right
brain lets you feel it. Pick a situation and ask yourself if what you know or what
you feel is most important to you. Generally, what you’ll
take care of ﬁrst depends on the situation and
circumstances you’r e in. Your intellect can be ﬁguring out
exactly how you’r e supposed to act in a relationship when
things are collapsing (or when they’r e raptur ous), and then
there are times when what you feel will supersede what you
know . If you are feeling fearful, scared, lonely; or on the
other hand, thrilled, lovin g, and ecstatic, these will be the
dominant forces you’ll act upon. These are the times when
your right brain is right. Your right brain will always lead you
passionately to your purpose.Listening to Your Right Brain
There’s an intuitive, invisible presence that’s always with
you. I pictur e this presenc e as a nagging little creature who
sits on your right should er and reminds you when you’ve
lost your sense of purpo se. This little fellow is your own
death, urging you to get on with what you showed up here
for because you have only so many days to get it done, and
then your body will be departing from this visit. Your
invisible companion will prod you when you’r e spending
another day doing what somebody else has dicta ted if it’s
not a part of your passion in life. You’ll most likely always know when you’r e oﬀ purpose
because of your thoughts of frustration. You might not
always act on this knowledge, though, because your left
brain has not muster ed up the courage to do the bidding
that your right brain knows is your destiny . Your intuitive
inner voice keeps urging you to play the music that you
hear so that you won’t die with it inside you. But your left
brain says, “Wait a minute. Be careful, don’t take risks, you
might fail, you might disappoint all of those who have a
diﬀer ent view of what you should be doing.” Then your
right-brain invisible companion (your death) speaks even
louder . The volume gets turned up and up, trying to get you
to follow your dr eam. Listening exclusively to your left brain will turn you
ultimately into a pretender, or even worse, a commuter—
getting up every morning going with the crowd, doing that
job that bring s in the money and pays the bills; and getting
up the next morning and doing it all over again, as a well-
known song implies. Meanwhile, the music inside of you
fades almost  to a point of being inaudible. But your constantinvisible companion always hears the music and continues
tapping you on your shoulder . The attempts  to get your attention may take the form of an
ulcer, or a ﬁre to burn up your resistance, or being ﬁred
from a stiﬂing job, or being brought to your knees with an
accident. Usually these accidents, illnesses, and forms of
bad luck ﬁnally get your attention. But not always. Some
people end up like Leo Tolstoy’s character Ivan Ilyich, who
anguished on his deathbed, “What if my whole life has been
wrong?” A fearsome scene, I must say . You don’t have to choose  that fate. Follow your right brain,
listening to how you feel, and play your own unique  brand of
music. You won’t have to fear anything or anyone, and you’ll
never experience that terror of lying on your deathbed
someday, wondering if your whole life has been wrong. Your
invisible companion on your right shoulder will prod you
each and every time you’r e moving away from your
purpose. It makes you awar e of your music. Listen to your
invisible companion, express the music that you hear, and
ignor e what everyone else around you thinks you should be
doing. As Henry David Thoreau put it, “If a man does not
keep pace with his comp anions, perhaps it is because he
hears a diﬀer ent drumm er. Let him step to the music he
hears, however measur ed or far away .”
Be willing to accept that others may even see you as having
betrayed them, but you haven’t betrayed your music, your
purpose. Do what you know you have to do to feel whole, to
feel complete, and to feel as if you’r e fulﬁlling your destiny . You’ll never be at peace if you don’t get that music out and
let it play . Don’t die with that music still in you. OceanofPDF .comBeing Passionate Means
Taking Risks
As we saw yester day, to fulﬁll your true destiny, you must
follow your instincts. Of course, if you don’t, you may still
ﬁnd yourself living a comfortable life—you pay your bills, ﬁll
out all of the right forms, and live a life of ﬁtting in and
doing it by the book. But it’s a book that was written by
somebody else. You’re awar e of that nagging companion
saying to you, “This may look right, but does it feel right? Do you have a passion for your chosen path in life?” For
many people, the answ er is, “How do I discover my
passion?” Today, I’m going to help you answer that
question.You’ll ﬁnd your passion in what inspir es you the most. And
what does the word “inspir e” mean? It derives from the
words “in spirit”. When you’r e inspir ed, you neve r have to
ask about your purpose . You’re living it. For one of my
childr en, it’s about riding horses and being at the stables. She’s in heaven when on horseback or even cleaning out a
stall ﬁlled with horse manur e. Another daughter is only
inspir ed when she’s singing, writing music, or performing. She’s felt that way since she was two. For anothe r, it’s her
artwork and design that make her feel purposeful. For yet
another, it’s designing websites and creating computer
programs for others. For me, it’s writing and speaking and
creating products to help people become self-reliant. This
has always been my passion, even as a young boy . What is your passion? What stirs your soul and makes you
feel like you’r e totally in harmony with why you showed up
here in the ﬁrst place? Know this for certain: Whatever it
may be, you can make a living doing it and simultaneously
provide a service for others. I guarantee it. Being excited about life is infectious—it rubs oﬀ on others. I’m reminde d of a whale-watching trip I took, wher e I
observed a young woman I know named Beth as she spoke
to a group of people about humpback whales. Her
enthusiasm was palpable to the entire group aboar d the
boat, and the more passion she displayed, the more she
seemed to inspir e her audience. I’ve been aboar d other
boats and seen the impact of guides who merely go through
the motions: People in this low-ener gy envir onment don’t
leave the e xperience feeling inspir ed. Beth, on the other hand, feels a passion that she conveys to
others every single day during the whale-mating season. Every day! You see, she studied marine biology in college
and has always been fascinated by humpback whales andtheir amazing ability to travel between Alask a and Hawaii,
to go six months without eating, to give birth in warm
waters, and then navigat e to cold waters on the return. For
Beth, these whales are a part of God’s mysterious,
miraculous creation. She’s living her passion, and she
inspir es others by her enthusiastic way of being. In fact,
everyone in this vicinity knows that expeditions with Beth
are almost a guarantee that you’ll not only get to see the
whales, but that they’ll dance and breach and even swim
under the boat for you. It’s as if the whales themselves
respond to Beth’s e xcitement! When you’r e enthusiastically living your passion, whatever it
may be, you transmit spiritual signals to those around you
that you’r e loving who you are, what you came here to be,
and whoever comes into your ﬁeld of vision. The only thing that will keep you from your passio n is fear. According to A Course in Miracles , there are only two basic
emotions: One is fear, the other is love. You may fear the disappr oval of others. Take that risk and
you’ll discover that you receive more approval when you
don’t seek it than when you do. You may fear the unknown. Take that risk as well. Wander in there, asking yourself,
“What is the worst thing that can happen if this doesn’t
work out?” The truth is that you will just move beyond it. You’re not going to starve to death or be tortur ed if it
doesn’t work  out. You might fear being successful. You may
have been conditioned to believe you’r e inade quate or
limited. The only way to challenge these absur dities is to go
towar d what you know you’r e here for and let success chase
after you, as it most assur edly will. Or, you may fear the
biggest one of all: Y ou may fear failur e.The Myth of Failure
This may come as a surpr ise to you, but failur e is an illusion. No one ever fails at anyth ing. Everything you do produces a
result. If you’r e trying to learn how to catch a ball and
someone throws it to you and you drop it, you haven’t
failed. You simply produced a result. The real question is
what you do with the results that you produce . Do you
leave, and moan about being a failur e, or do you say,
“Throw it again,” until ultimately you’r e catchi ng balls? Failure is a judgment. It’s just an opinion. It comes from your
fears, which can be eliminated by love. Love for yourself . Love for what you do. Love for others. Love for your planet. When you have love within you, fear cannot survive. Think
of the messa ge in this ancient wisdom: “Fear knock ed at the
door. Love answer ed and no one was ther e.”
That music that you hear inside of you urging you to take
risks and follow your dreams is your intuitive connection to
the purpose in your heart since birth. Be enthusiastic about
all that you do. Have that passion with the awar eness that
the word “enthusiasm” literally means “the God (enthos )
within ( iasm )”. The passion that you feel is God inside of you
beckoning you to tak e the risk and be your own person. I’ve found that perceived risks are not risky at all once you
transcend your fears and let love and self-respect in. When
you produce a result that others laugh at, you’r e also stirred
to laughter . When you respect yourself, stumbling allows
you to laugh at yourself as an occasional stumbler . When
you love and respect yourself, someone’s disappr oval is not
something you fear and avoid. The poet Rudyar d Kipling
declar ed, “If you can meet triumph and disaster, and treat
those two imposters just the same… yours is the Earth andeverything that’s in it.” The key word here is “imposters.”
They’r e not r eal. They e xist only in the minds of people. Let the world know why you’r e her e, and do it with passion. OceanofPDF .comYou Can’t Give Away What
You Don’t Have
Of course you can’t give away what you don’t have! That
seems so obvious that you may be wondering why I would
mention it. It’s because I’ve found that most people who
don’t enjoy inner peace  and success in their lives have
failed to master this simple truth. So today we are going to
examine our own inner r esour ces. Think of the people you know who give love in response to
negative energy that’s directed their way. There aren’t very
many people who respond lovingly in that situation. The
ones who do are able to because they have love to give
away . They know that it’s impossible to give away what theydon’t have, and they’ve gone that extra mile to acquir e
what it is that they want to both attract and give away . If
love and joy are what you want to give and receive, then
remember that you can’t give away what you don’t have,
but you can change your life by changing what’s inside if
you’r e willing to go that e xtra mile. Changing What’s Inside
Consider the following concept of your inner reality . Your
thoughts create your reality because your thoughts
deter mine how you respond to situations in your daily life. Those responses are the energy you have inside of you to
give away . If you feel anger, it’s because you have anger
energy in your body. Like everything in our universe, your
thoughts are a form of energy. Everything that you feel and
experience is the result of what I call “attractor energies.”
This means that you get back what you put out into the
world. Thus, what you’ve attracted to you is what you have
to give away to others. Low energy attracts low energy. Some of the low energy
thoughts are anger, hate,  shame, guilt, and fear. Not only do
they weak en you, but they attract more of the same! By
changing your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of
love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, you’ll attract more
of the same, and you’ll have those higher energies to give
away . These higher and faster frequencies that empower
you will automatically nullif y and dissipate the lower
energies in the same way that the presence of light makes
darkness disappear . Loving and Respecting Y ourselfBy becoming more loving towar d yourself, you will attract
more of the higher, faster energies and begin to change
what’s inside you. In your thoughts, cultivate an inner voice
and attitude that’s 100 percent of the time for you. Imagine
an aspect of yourself that only supports and loves you. You
might schedule a certain  time of the day when that’s the
only thought that you allow yourself to pay attention to! Gradually this attitude will extend to other people even if
you can only do it for a minute or two . You’ll begin to r eceive
this energy back and ultimately be able to send thoughts of
love and joy to everyon e and everything in your world. Notice when your thoughts drift into the lower energy of
ridicule or hate or guilt, and change the thought at that very
moment, if at all possible . If you’r e unable to change your
thought, at least love yourself for what you did do—that is,
for noticing. Make a pact to remind yourself often of this secret of not
being able to give away anything that you don’t have. Then
work on your personal program of self-love, self-respect, and
self-empower ment, and create a huge inventory of what you
wish to give away . One of the lessons I continue to learn and practic e is that
the universe responds with the same energy that we send
out. If you attract a lot of people who wish to take
advantage of you, you need to consider what you’r e doing
to attract victimizers into your life. If you run into anger a
lot, explor e the angry thoughts you have inside you. If your
consciousness is a “Gimm e! Gimme! Gimme!” energy, you’ll
attract all manner of demanding energies into your life. You
know if this is true by the number of deadlines not being
met, demand ing bosses or customers you encou nter, and
the feeling of being a victim. Send out “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” energy to the universe, and it will do the same in
return.If what you give is self-respect and self-love, the universe,
via the attractor energy, will return the love and respect
you’ve been radiating. It’s really so simple. You can’t give
away what you don’t have. The Irony of Giving
If you wanted to give a dozen oranges to your neighbor as
an expression of love, you obviously would need to be in
possession of 12 oranges. If you intended to purchase a new
automobile for your parents to show your gratitude  to them
for putting you through medical school, naturally you’d need
to have the funds to do so. Likewise, you can’t give love
away to others if you don’t have any for yourself . You can’t
show respec t for others if you lack self-respect. You can’t
give happiness away if you feel unhappy . And of course, the
reverse is true. You can only give away what you do have, and all that
you’r e giving  away each and every day are items from your
own personal inventory . If you give away hatred, it’s
because you’ve stored up hatred inside of you to give away . If you give away misery , it’s because you have a ready
supply available fr om which to select and distribute. This concept is simpliﬁed by a description of squeezing an
orange. When you squeeze an orange, you’ll always get
orange juice to come out. This is true regardless of who
does the squeezing, what time of day you squee ze, what
instrument you use to squeeze, or what circumstances
surround the orange-squeezing. What comes out is what’s
inside. The same logic applies to you. When someone squeezes you, in some way puts pressur e
on you, or says something unﬂattering or critical; and out ofyou comes anger, hatred, bitter ness, tension, depression, or
anxiety, it’s because that is what’s inside. The irony is that
you can’t give away what you don’t have because you’r e
always giving  what you do have. If you want to move into
the realm of purpose by giving and serving others, ask
yourself, “What do I have inside?” and “Why have I chosen
to stor e these kinds of ener gies in me to give to others?”
OceanofPDF .comYour Purpose Is to Serve
If you are like most people I meet, you most likely yearn to
know your purpose in life. “How can I ﬁnd my purpose?” is
the question that I am asked most often. The questioner
often elaborates on his or her dilemma by saying, “I would
be happier if I could be living out my purpose, but I just
don’t know what my purpose in life is.” My respon se is that
you come into this world with absolutely nothing . You will
leave this physical world with exactly the same. All of your
acquisitions and achievem ents can’t go with you. Therefore,
the only thing you can do with your life is give it away . Today, we’re going to discuss how to feel purposeful by
discovering a way to always be in the service of others.Purpose is about serving. It’s about taking the focus oﬀ you
and your self-inter est, and serving others in some way. You
build becaus e you love to build. But you build to make
others happy . You design because your heart directs you to. But those designs are in the service of others. You write
because you love to express yourself in words. But those
words will help and inspir e readers. If you don’t yet know
your purpose, you’ll continue to seek it throughout the
various stages of your life. There are many diﬀer ent models that describe the stages of
life. Here, I’m using the four archetypal stages of athlete,
warrior, statesman, and spirit to brieﬂy show what your
purpose is in each stage. In the athlete archetype, the focus is exclusively on the
physical body and how it looks and perfor ms. The warrior
archetype wants to compete, defeat, and collect the
rewar ds. The statesman archetype emphasizes fulﬁlling the
desir es of others by asking, “How may I serve?” At the ﬁnal
stage (and the highest that we know) is the archetype of
spirit. At this stage, you realize what is meant by being in
this world, but not of this world. The spirit part of you knows
that neither the body nor this world is its exclusive domicile. This spirit archetype invites you to minimize your material-
world concer ns and to put more of your energy into the
essence of life, which is love and service. As you progress through these four archetypes, you’ll ﬁnd
yourself think ing less and less of your own self-interest and
more and more about how you can make the world a better
place for all. In this way, you discover a great truth. The
more you chase after your own goals and pursue your self-
interest, the more these aims will elude you. But when you
turn your thoughts and then your activities, regardless of
what they are, to serving others, those things that you usedto chase after will follow  you wher ever you go. When you
get yourself out of the picture completely, the forces of the
universe will seem to conspir e to provide all that you
previously sought for yourself . And then, because you’r e not
attached to them any longer, they’ll ﬂow in and out of your
life fr eely. In essence, I’m urging you to stop taking your life so
personally . You can end any and all suﬀering by reminding
yourself that nothing in the universe is personal. Of course
you’ve been taught to take life very personally, but this is
an illusion. Tame your ego, and absolutely free yourself from
ever taking anything personally . One good way to serve is to practice being gener ous as
often as you can. Promise yourself to extend some kind of
unexpected gener osity to someone, preferably a stranger,
every single day for two weeks. This will not only help you
develop a habit of givin g, but you’ll also discover how
wonderfully inspiring your gener ous natur e feels. The more
you practice being charitable, the more you’ll impact others
and encourage them to help and serve others, too. By
letting others know that you’r e willing to give your time as
well as your possessions, you’ll serve as a great role model. Who isn’t inspir ed by those who are willing to share their
time, money, and possessions? We name cities (San
Francisco) for such people and we nominate them (Mother
Teresa) for sainthood… you, too, can make a diﬀer ence by
being a benevolent soul. You can also practice tithing (giving 10 percent of what you
earn in a given period to support teaching that provides you
with spiritual uplift) and see if it doesn’t return to you
tenfold. This has work ed for me my entir e life, and continues
as I practice my natural instinct to be gener ous.In an exceptional book titled Season of Life, Jeﬀrey Marx, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, chronicles a high school
football team in which a former player with the Baltimor e
Colts named Joe Ehrmann is on the coaching staﬀ. His
coaching philosophy is to “help boys become men within the
conte xt of sports”—that is, without threats, screaming, or
violence. “I expect greatness out of you,” the team’s head coach tells
his players, “and the way we measur e greatne ss is the
impact you make on other people’s lives.” As the 10
coaches and assistant coaches huddle with the team on
game day, one of them asks, “What is our job?” “To love
us!” the team yells back in unison. “And what is your job?”
the coach asks. “To love each other,” the team responds. This is the philosophy that these boys were exposed to
every day—a t practice, on the ﬁeld, and during and after
the games—and so it goes for all of us who wish to serve
others. We must love all others and teach them to love each
other . Keep these thoughts in mind, particularly when you feel lost
or are unsur e of your purpose: “My purpose is about giving. I’ll direct my thoughts oﬀ me, and spend the next few hours
looking for a way to be of service to anyone or any creatur e
on our endanger ed plane t.” This will bring you back to a
realization that it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as
you’r e able to give. In order to fully give and be of service
and ultimate ly feel purposeful, you must be able to say,
“Yes,” when you ask yourself, “Do I really possess what it is
that I wish to give away?”
OceanofPDF .comEmbrace Silence
Today our topic is that rare commodity in 21st-century living
—silence. You live in a noisy world, constantly bombar ded with loud
music, sirens, construction equipment, jet airplanes,
rumbling trucks, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and tree
cutters. These human-made, unnatural sounds invade your
senses and keep silence at bay. In fact, you’ve been raised
in a cultur e that not only eschews silence, but is terriﬁed of
it. The car radio must always be on, and any pause in
conversation is a moment of embar rassment that most
people quickly ﬁll with chatter . For many, being alone is anightmar e, and being alone in silence is pure torture. The
famous scien tist Blaise Pascal observed, “All man’s miseries
derive fr om not being able to sit quietly in a r oom alone.”
The Value of Silence
There’s a momentary silence in the space between your
thoughts that you can become awar e of with practice. In
this silent space, you’ll ﬁnd the peace that you crave in your
daily life. Y ou’ll never know that peace if you have no spaces
between your thoughts. The average person is said to have
60,000 separate thoughts every day. With so many
thoughts, there are almost no gaps. If you could reduce that
number by half, you would open up an entire world of
possibilities for yourself . It’s really the space between the notes that makes the
music you enjoy so much. Without the spaces, all you would
have is one continuous noisy note. Everything that’s created
comes out of silence. Your thoughts emer ge from the
nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emer ged from emptiness. Those who will
supersede us are waiting in the vast void. All creativity
requir es some stillness. Silence reduces fatigue and allows
you to e xperience your own cr eative juices. Accessing More Silence in Y our Life
I urge you to demand more and more time for silence in
your life. One of the most eﬀective ways to bring this about
is to make meditation a daily practice. And remember,
there’s no such thing as a bad meditation. Give yourself
time to sit quietly alone. At ﬁrst your thoughts will take oﬀtrying to convince you that this is a waste of time, that you
should be out ther e being pr oductive, and that you’ve got so
many other things to do. Hundr eds of other unrelated
thoughts will pop in and out of your mind. But you can weather this thunderstor m of mental
protestations by sitting quietly and becoming the observer
to all of this inner chatter . Eventually you’ll be able to move
to the gaps between your thoughts and notice how peaceful
you felt in that silent gap when you emer ge from it. Try it
right now. Use the Lord’s Prayer . First, conce ntrate on the
word Our, and then Father . Try to go into the gap between
the two words, Our and Father . Then do it again with Who
art and in Heaven . Just slip momentarily into the gap, and
notice how peaceful and e xquisite you feel in that gap. There are many opportunities to access silence . I try to
meditate each time I stop at a red light. With the car
stopped and my body inactive, frequently the only things
still moving are the thoughts in my mind. I use those two
minutes or so at the stoplight to bring my mind into
harmony with my inert car and body. I get a wonderful
bonus of silence. I probably stop at a red light 20 or 30
times a day, creating 40 minutes to an hour of silence. And
there’s alway s someone behind me to let me know that my
time is up by br eaking the silence with a honking hor n! The Wilderness Is Therapy
Anytime in your life when you’r e feeling out of sorts in any
way, go to natur e and ﬁnd silence and peace. Sending
troubled teens to the wilder ness to care for animals and
commune with natur e almost always brings them peace and
serenity. Drug addictions disappear when young people are
confr onted with climbing a mountain or canoeing across alake. People  who have been diagnosed with terminal
illnesses often ﬁnd that months spent in a cabin in the
isolated wilder ness is the exact therapy they need, and
sometimes the source of miraculous spontaneous
remissions. If you ever suﬀer from insomnia, walk barefoot on the grass
for 10 minutes befor e getting into bed. Natur e has a
marvelous way of healing many maladies. Try spending a
day in an isolated spot, listening only to silence punctuated
by the sounds of natur e—the birds, the insects, the rustling
of leaves, the wind. These are the sounds of healing that
can oﬀset the painful sounds of trucks, cement mixers,
boom bo xes, and the lik e.
Give yoursel f opportuniti es to be in the wilder ness as a
regular part of your life routine. Take a day each month or
week or two to be alone in silence, communing with natur e.
This is the ultimate therapy, and it’s much less expensive
than paying someone to listen! Meditation Not Only Aﬀects Y ou, It Impacts
Everyone Around Y ou
When you’re at peace, you radiate a diﬀer ent kind of energy
than when you’r e stressed or depressed. The more peaceful
you become, the easier you can deﬂect the negative
energies of those you encounter . This is like having an
invisible shield around you that nothing can penetrate
unless it’s at a higher spiritual energy than your shield. A
hostile current is greeted with a smile and an inner knowing
that this is not your stuﬀ. A person who attempts  to bring
you into their misery cannot succeed without your
agreement. Y our meditation practice k eeps you immune.Not only can you deﬂect the negativity of those around you,
but your sense of peace will bring others into harmony with
you. Studies have been done to measur e the serotonin (a
neurotransmitter in your brain that indicates how peaceful
and harmonious you feel) levels of those in the vicinity of a
large group of meditators. Amazingly, just being in the
energy ﬁeld of those who meditate raises the serotonin
levels of the observers. These implications are startling. The
more you achieve peacefulness through meditation, the
more your peaceful state impacts those ar ound you. I ﬁnd that my meditating not only calms me, but has a
soothing eﬀect on my family and those around me. But the
primary beneﬁt is that after a meditation, I ﬁnd it almost
impossible to be annoyed or negatively impacted by
anything, because it brings me inner peace. OceanofPDF .comMaking Conscious Contact
with God
Most organized religions have taken on the task of
explaining God to their congr egations, including all of the
rules that God supposedly has laid out for humankind. However, you cannot come to know God through the
experiences or testimony of others. This must be done by
you. Today, through furth er exploration of medita tion and
silence, we are going to discover how to make conscious
contact with God. I teach a meditation, which I describe in detail and guide
you through  with my voice, in an audio program called
Meditations for Manifesting . This meditation uses the soundof “ahhhh” as a mant ra to keep your thoughts from
wandering during the morning meditation. This mantra
sound is in virtually all names of the Divine. Listen  for it, for
example, in God, Yahweh , Allah , Krishna , Jehovah , Ra, and
Ptah. By repeating this mantra sound, you make conscious
contact with God. The evening meditation uses the sound of
om, the sound of gratitude for all that has manifested in
your life. Repeating the sound of ahhhh  in the morning and
om in the evening for approximately 20 minutes creates an
opportunity for you to experience inner peace and success,
in a way you may have never known befor e. I urge you to
meditate because it will bring you more peace, remove
stress, improve your surroundings, and deﬂect negativity . All
of this and more will deﬁnitely show up when you meditate
on a r egular basis. When you merge into the silence and become one with it,
you also reconnect to your Source and know the
peacefulness that some call God. “Be still and know that I
am God,” says it so beautifully in the Psalms of the Old
Testament. The k ey wor ds her e are still and know . Be still actually means silence . Mother Teresa described
silence and its relationsh ip to God by saying, “God is the
friend of silence. See how natur e—tr ees, grass—gr ows in
silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they
move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch
souls.” This includes your soul! The second word in the Old Testament observation, know ,
refers to making your personal and conscious contact with
God. To know God is to banish doubt and become
independent of others’ deﬁnition and description  of God. Instead, you have your own personal knowing. And as
Herman Melville reminded us so poignantly, “God’s one and
only voice is silence.”Your sense of inner peace depends on spending some of
your life energy in silence  to rechar ge your battery, remove
tension and anxiety, reacquaint you with the joy of knowing
God, and feel closer to all of humanity . The Divine Oneness
God is that which is indivisible. There’s only one
omnipr esent presence called God. This presence is
everywher e and is a force that creates and sustains life. It
can never be divided or cut up into pieces. There’s only one
power in the universe, not two. Everything in your
experience as a human being appears to be in duality,
however . Up exists because of its opposite, down . Light
exists becau se of dark; right exists because of wrong. You’ve never  seen a person with a front who doesn’t have a
back; an outside  without an inside ; a north pole  of a magnet
without a south pole. Our physical world is a world of
dichotomies and combinations of opposites, always
divisible. Silence, howe ver, is the one experience you can have that’s
indivisible. You cut silenc e in half, and all you get is more
silence. There’s only one silence. Therefore, silence is your
one way to experience the oneness and the indivi sibility of
God. This is how you know God rather than having to settle
for knowing about God. This is why you want to meditate. Meditation seems to bring me into contact with a source of
soothing energy that makes me feel deeply connected to
God. You will ﬁnd your answers in the silence. Remember : It’s out
of the void, the emptiness, that everything is created. When
you write a musical note, the silence from which it comes is
just as much a part of the note as is the sound. So it is withhealing any thing or any relationship. Going into the quiet
and listening will inspir e you. I can’t imagine speaking or
writing without ﬁrst going to God in silence. I seek alone
time and space to allow my inspiration to emer ge. Keep Y our Silent Communion with God to
Yourself
Everything that you wish to manifest emer ges from Spirit,
from the silence. You don’t use your ego to manifest. In fact,
ego can inhibit the creative process. For this reason, I urge
you not to divulge your private insights, what you intend to
create. As St. Paul said, “That which is seen, hath not come
from that which doth appear.” When you talk about your
emer ging manifesting ideas and relate your insights to
others, you often feel the need to explain and defend them. What happens is that ego has enter ed. Once the ego is
present, the manifesting stops. Silence is wher e manifesting occurs, so keep your potential
miracles in the treasur ed silence that you embrace  as often
as possible. You can rely upon it and enjoy basking in the
serenity and inner peace that silence and meditation always
bring. OceanofPDF .comGive Up Your Personal
History
For many of us, our past deﬁnes who we are at this present
moment. Today, I want to show you how letting go of the
past can help you move on to live your life more fully in the
present. When a speedboat zooms across the surface of the water,
there’s a white foamy froth behind it that’s called the wake
of the boat. The wake is nothing more than the trail that’s
left behind. The answer to, “What is driving the boat?” is
that the boat moves because of present-moment energy
generated by the engine. This is what makes the boat move
forwar d across the water . Do you think it’s possible for thewake to drive the boat? Can the trail that’s left behind make
a boat go forwar d? These are rhetorical questions with
obvious answers. I’m sure you agree that the wake is only
the trail left behind, and that it’s not what drives  the boat
forwar d.
I’m suggesti ng that you apply this idea to your life. The
wake of your life is nothing more than a trail that’s left
behind you. Thought of in this way, it’s absolutely
impossible for that wake to drive you forwar d. The wake is
not in any logical way responsible for what you’r e
experiencing or failing to experience today . The wake is just
what it is, and nothing more—a trail that you’ve left behind. But have you? Being a Victim of Your Personal
History
For well over a quarter century now, I’ve work ed with people
to help them access higher levels of awar eness. It’s my
experience that most people live their life in the wake by
hanging on to personal histories to justif y their self-
defeating behaviors and the scarcity in their lives. They
hang on to past pains, abuses, and shortcomings as calling
cards to announce a “poor me” status to everyone they
meet, withi n minutes of their introduction. “I was
abandoned as a child,” “I’m an alcoholic,” “I’m an incest
survivor,” “My parents were divor ced and I’ve never gotten
over it.” The list could go on for hundr eds of pages. Your past is over! By bonding to your past, you not only
ensur e that you’ll be immobilized today, but you prevent
yourself from healing. By referring to past struggles and
using them as the reasons for not getting on with your lifetoday, you’r e doing the equivalent of attributing to the wake
the ability to drive the boat. This also works in reverse. Many people  refer to the good old days that are gone
forever as the reason why they can’t be happy and fulﬁlled
today . “Everything has changed,” “No one respects anyone
else like they used to,” “A dollar used to be worth  a dollar,
now everything is so overpriced,” “People don’t seem to
want to help out like they did in the past,” “When  we were
kids, we respected author ity; today’s kids walk all over their
parents.” This is also living in the wake and assigning
responsibility to the past for why you can’t be successful or
happy today . Getting Out of the Wake
Imagine a pencil with the ability to only write your past
history . It has no use otherwise. All of your past is in that
pencil. Are you going to keep it? What for? Are you going to
give it up? Perhaps Omar  Khayyam will inspir e you with his
poem:
The moving ﬁnger writes and having writ moves
on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel
half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out one word of it. You can cry all night about the history in that pencil, all that
it contains, and all you wish you could erase—or bring back
again—but all of your tears can’t wash out one word of the
past, as the poet-philosopher r eminds you. You want to let go of your personal history that’s symbolized
by that pencil, but when you walk away from it, no matter
how far you walk, you look back and there it is. You’re readyto be rid of your personal history and to more fully live in
the present moment. But the pencil is always there when
you look back. I suggest that you pick up the pencil, and
with compassion, allow the words, wounds, and pain of the
past to be written, embraced, examined, understood,
accepted, and loved for all that you’ve learned and
experienced. The act of picking it up and embracing it will
give you the str ength to transfor m the past into song, poem,
paint, or ritual if you feel called to do those things, or to
throw it away in your unique manner . Embracing Your Personal History
In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a Divine
creative force supporting it, there simply can be no
accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go
through what you went through in order to get to wher e you
are today, and the evidence is that you did. Every spiritual
advance that you will make in your life will very likely be
preceded by some kind of fall or seeming disaster . Those
dark times, accidents, tough episodes, periods of
impoverishment, illnesses, abuses, and broken dreams were
all in order. They happened, so you can assume they had to
and you can’t unhappen  them. Embrace them from that perspective, with help if you need
it, and then understand them, accept them, honor them,
and ﬁnally retire and/or transfor m them in your own way. (I
know someone who gives them a new job description.) Become free to immerse yourself in this moment—the now
that’s called the present —because it’s simply that—a
present to open, relish, nurtur e, play with, and enjoy and
explor e.No Longer Relying on Your Past
Make an eﬀort to remove all labels that you’ve placed on
yourself . Labels serve to negate you. You must ultimately
live up to the label rather than being the limitless spirit that
is your true essence. You’re not an American, an Italian, or
an African. You’re a mem ber of one race, the human race. You’re not a male or a female, a Democrat or a Republican. You are one with the true oneness, God. You are not athletic
or magical, mathematical or literary, or any other label. Transcending labels, particularly those that have been
placed on you by others in your past, opens you to the
opportunity of soaring in the now in any way that you
desir e.
Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in
your physica l reality . Don’t allow them to be here in your
mind, muddy ing your present moments. Your life is like a
play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter
have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are
villains and others are good guys. But all of them are
necessary, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace
them all, and move on to the ne xt act. OceanofPDF .comAll You Get Is Now
The past has gone, the future is still to come, so the present
—the here-and-now—is all we have. This is our topic for
today . The willingness and ability to live fully in the now elude
many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be
concer ned with dessert. While reading a book, notice wher e
your thoughts are. While on vacation, be there instead of
thinking abou t what should have been done and what has to
be done when returning home. Don’t let the elusive present
moment get used up by thoughts that aren’t in the here and
now.There’s an irony to this habit of having your mind drift to
other times and other places. You can only drift oﬀ in the
now, because now is all you ever get. So drifting oﬀ is a way
of using up your present moments. You do indeed have a
past, but not now! And yes, you have a futur e, but not now! And you can consume your now with thoughts of “then” and
“maybe”, but that will keep you from the inner peace and
success you could e xperience. It’s doubtful that other creatur es waste the present in
thoughts of past and future. A beaver only does beaver, and
he does it right in the moment. He doesn’t spend his days
wishing he were a young beaver again, or ruminating over
the fact that his beaver siblings received more attention, or
his beaver father ran oﬀ with a younger beaver when he
was growing up. He’s always in the now. We can learn much
from God’s creatur es about enjoying the present  moment
rather than using it up consumed with guilt over the past or
worry about the futur e. Practice living in the moment, and
refuse to allow any thoughts based on your past to deﬁne
you. Stop and take notice of all that’s in your immediate space—
the people, creatur es, vegetation, cloud formations, building
designs, everything. Stay in the present by meditating and
getting closer to the ultimate now… God. God Is Only Here Now
Think about this. God will not be doing anything diﬀer ent
one hour from now than God is doing now. And God is not
doing anythi ng diﬀer ent now from what God was doing a
thousand years ago. The truth is that you can only come to
know God if you’r e willing to be at peace in the present
moment.Earlier, in Day 8, I discu ssed how meditation is a way of
making conscious contact with God. Here, I would like to let
you in on a sublime secret that I learned from one of my
most inﬂuential teachers:
You will only come to truly know God when you
give up the past and the future in your mind and
merge totally into the now, because God is always
here now . Very few people understand and live this principle, largely
because of their conditioning and unwillingness to train their
minds in present-moment living.
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The book discusses the importance of living in the present moment and letting go of attachments, fears, and negative thoughts to achieve inner peace and success.
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The author suggests that one should not seek external validation or attachment to specific roles or identities, but rather listen to their inner voice and serve others.
What is the author's advice on how to find one's passion in life?
The book emphasizes the importance of letting go of the past and the future, and instead, focus on the present moment to find inner peace and success.
What is the main message of the book?
The author recommends letting go of attachments, fears, and negative thoughts, and instead, focus on the present moment and serve others.
What is the author's advice on how to achieve inner peace and success?