The Secret of Success: The Shortest Summary

The Secret of Success is Simply to Share your SPARKS of Genius with Society.

Answering this Question can shed some light on how you might wish to do so:

"What is the purpose of money in my life?"

The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth

1 - Discover Your Worth: "No matter how intelligent, attractive or talented you may be — to the degree that you doubt your worthiness you tend to sabotage your efforts and undermine your relationships." You open up to abundant life only to the extent you believe you deserve it. How good can you stand it today?

2 - Reclaim Your Will: "Until you reclaim your will — assert your power to act upon what you know — even the best plans remain unrealized." Self-respect comes from doing what needs to be done, whether or not you are in the mood. Can you turn knowledge into action?

3 - Energize Your Body: "If you lack vitality, nothing else really matters; if you have your health, anything is possible." The only thing you are sure to keep for a lifetime is your body. How might you take better care of your body?

4 - Manage Your Money: "By clarifying your goals and using your gifts, you can make good money, doing what you enjoy while serving the highest calling of your soul." Money is neither god nor devil, but a form of energy and a practical necessity. Have you achieved financial stability?

5 - Tame Your Mind: "The world is...a reflection of your mind. As your mind clears, you perceive reality simply as it is." You see the world through filters of belief, opinion and interpretation. How do your beliefs shape your experience?

6 - Trust Your Intuition: "Your subconscious holds keys to a treasure house of intuitive wisdom, clear sight and untapped power." There are hidden ways of knowing about and responding to the world. Have you accessed your inner guidance system?

7 - Accept Your Emotions: "Accept emotions completely, let your feelings be; just don't let them run your life." Feelings are natural; you need not fix them, but transcend them. Have you made peace with your emotions?

8 - Face Your Fears: "courage is not in the absence of fear, but the conquering of it." Everyday courage is not a feeling but an action. Have you made fear your servant and guide, or let it become your master?

9 - Illuminate Your Shadow: "Releasing energy once bound in defense of self-image, you find energy, understanding, humility and compassion." Self-knowledge generates authenticity, energy and compassion. Do you truly know yourself, or only your self-image?

10 - Embrace Your Sexuality: "Life is not a matter of indulging or denying the energies of life, but observing, accepting, and wisely channeling them." Making love can be a spiritual practice and a celebration of life. Have you realized your potential for intimacy and joy?

11 - Awaken Your Heart: "Love endures not from words or feelings alone, but from actions that carry you beyond the interests of separate self, beyond reason or motive, to embrace all people, things and circumstances." Love is an action that opens the gateways to everyday enlightenment. Can you act with love without reason?

12 - Serve Your World: "Service is both a means and an end, for in giving to others, you open yourself to love, abundance, and inner peace." The final gateway brings meaning to life. How might you make a positive difference for someone today?

— from Everyday Enlightenment

by Dan Millman

Some Quotes to BARE

"There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

~ Buckminster Fuller

"We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."

~ Vauvenargues

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

~ Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

~ Albert Einstein

"What is life, without a dream?"

~ Edmund Rostand

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true."

~ Richard Bach

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

~ Francis Drake

"It's never too late to become what you might have been."

~ George Eliot

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

~ Thomas Edison

"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."

~ Les Brown

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

~ Mark Twain

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."

~ George Bernard Shaw

"People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be...whether they'll admit that or not."

~ William James

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

~ Henri Frederic Amiel

"Joy is peace dancing, peace is joy resting."

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."

"Have less, do less, be more!"

"The instructions for thinking outside the box are printed on the outside."

"Usually, the brain that contains the problem is the brain that contains the solution."