Thought of the Week – 17th June 2024
Thought of the Week – 10th June 2024(2)
Never enter a relationship without having first created value in that relationship. Never stop creating value and nurturing your relationships. Always ask “What’s in it for them?” rather than “What’s in it for me?” Know what the other person cares about. Get to know them, their context, and their goals. Give relevant value. Don’t waste their time. Do your homework. If you want to develop transformational relationships, then approach relationships in a transformational, rather than transactional, way. Bring a result to the table. Make the pie bigger for everyone involved. Don’t come with big promises of future results. Bring immediate results. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver. Be a generous giver who is truly committed to service and growth, not status. Be nice to the people you meet on the way up because they are the same people you meet on the way down. Be grateful in large and small ways to the people in your life and you’ll attract incredible abundance.
–Dan Sullivan
Thought of the Week – 10th June 2024 (1)
Check regularly on the negative suggestions that people make to you. You do not have to be influenced by destructive heterosuggestion. All of us have suffered from it in our childhood and in our teens. If you look back, you can easily recall how parents, friends, relatives, teachers, and associates contributed in a campaign of negative suggestions. Study the things said to you, and you will discover much of it was in the form of propaganda. The purpose of much of what was said was to control you or instill fear into you. This heterosuggestion process goes on in every home, office, factory, and club. You will find that many of these suggestions are for the purpose of making you think, feel, and act, as others want you to and in ways that are to their advantage.
-Joseph Murphy
Thought of the Week – 3rd June 2024 (2)
Imagine a zebra on the savannah, where the most stressful event will be to flee from a lion for survival. Once the immediate danger has passed, it will settle and calm down quickly. Humans, on the other hand, can remain traumatized by imagining and ruminating on what might have happened. Our capacity to anticipate, imagine, or ruminate can stimulate the threat system continuously, leading to effects that are detrimental to both our physical and mental health.
-Agnes M.F. Wong
Thought of the Week – 3rd June 2024
His Holiness the Dalai Lama noted that “Compassion is not religious business; it is human business. It is not a luxury . . . it is essential for human survival.” He later wrote, “However capable and skilful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. However vigorous and independent one may feel during the most prosperous periods of life, when one is sick or very young or very old, one must depend on the support of others. . . . I believe that at every level of society—familial, tribal, national, and international—the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion.”
-Roshi Joan Halifax
Thought of the week -27th May 2024(2)
Thought of the Week – 27th May 2024
Conflicts happen when we lose respect for each other. In the absence of respect, our principles and rules become more important than people. The head takes over from the heart, then we start to project concepts onto those we’re against. War propagandists have known for centuries that it pays to dehumanize the other side. If you turn your opposition into monsters, it makes it easier for decent people to hate them. A society takes a step on the journey toward peace when it recognizes its enemy as human, and that happens one person at a time.
Prem Rawat
Imagine a world where everyone lives in peace
Imagine what would spring from that global peace—the beautiful flowers of kindness. Imagine a world where society uses its talents, resources, and energy for the good of all. Where the many, many billions of dollars currently spent on defense are used instead to attack disease rather than each other. Where communities and families aren’t fractured by violence and crime but are united, strong, understanding, and caring. Where everyone’s home is safe, comfortable, and welcoming. Where new technologies are designed to serve humankind, helping us prosper. Where there is plentiful food and water, and we happily share what we have with friends, neighbors, and strangers. Where borders are no more than lines on old maps. Where creatures of every shape and size have space to thrive. Where Nature is loved and respected. Where our villages, towns, and cities overflow with gratitude and generosit
Imagine that world….
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