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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Not Only Desires, But Obligations, Cause Suffering

Buddha is famous for the saying; “Life is suffering and desires are the cause of suffering.” I have spent my life working on eliminating desires, and of course, it is not possible for a human being to eliminate all desires. We will always have something we want, or need. At the same time, I have discovered that there is something else that makes a little more sense and is possible to achieve in the search to end suffering.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Eleventh Hour Experiences And Exercise

The following are some examples which a reader presented from his life. Reader: 1.) During school days, many times I was home in the evening and thinking of some girl or boy from my class and tha I went out to the market and would see them there. This used to make me wonder how did they come to the market, but I used to think, that since I went to the market where lots of people come to do shopping so it's not strange to see them there as those markets sell everything so people always come there. But now I think why didn’t I meet other friends whom I was not thinking about.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Know Which Emotions Are Real

If you tell someone they are stupid and insult them, different people will react differently. Some will take it personally and feel bad, others will get aggressive and reply in kind. However, if you give anyone love and positive emotions, everyone will react the same. There are always exceptions, but three headed twins are rare and to be treated with different rules.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,323 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How to Achieve Balanced Business and Spiritual Growth

Can business and spiritual growth go hand in hand and both develop simultaneously? Emphatically yes. Sufism and the Tantric paths are two examples of having a family and work or business in harmony with ones spiritual growth. The past Sheik of the Jerrahi order in Istanbul owned a candy store, and the Sheik before him owned a bookstore, both had families.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,317 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Importance of the Quality of Your Character; How to Achieve the Balance Required for Spiritual Growth

Spiritual growth relies, in my opinion after decades of self work and study along with meeting many remarkable and unremarkable people, on the cultivation of your morals, personality and character. A strong character with correct standards and morals is the first prerequisite step a normal person must take towards spiritual growth to attain bliss and balance. To develop this requires many steps as all things of value do, the first being to eliminate negative emotions. Negative emotions include aggressive as well as passive traits from anger to guilt.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,307 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Are you Evil

The thoughts of this writing are based on the Hermetica, a body of literature written in late antiquity, but believed to be much older. Perhaps written at the time of Moses. Written originally in Latin and Greek, it is the source of the Gnostic teachings and it appears that Christianity took much from it as well.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,302 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Pattern Organ

This article is about an organ which you have never heard of or been aware exists. It is the ‘pattern organ’ and is located in your mind. Since science has not yet located the ‘mind’ we have no idea how big it is or where it is, and so that means it could contain several other organs within itself, it is possible. Using the image of an organ will help you conquer fixed patterns or as they are also called, habits. Like all other organs and limbs in your body, in time, the pattern organ gets hard and atrophies, and like any other organ, you get old and die if it atrophies totally.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,299 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

A Shocking And Disturbing Reality About Low Self-Esteem

People will never change if they think they are alright. This is simply logical, why put in effort to fix what is not broken. We must see and realize that it is NOT alright to accept anything and everything. To accept mediocrity and negativity negates the possibility of progress. This applies to being short changed in a store, or being sold inferior quality products, or inadequate service, right through to the quality of your own character, skills, abilities and self-esteem. Here we will discuss a different view of the plague of low self-esteem.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,296 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Invisible Nature; From Valentinian Branch Of Gnostic Teachings

One must not perform the mystery of the ineffable and invisible power through visible and corruptible things of creation, nor that of the unthinkable and immaterial beings through sensible and corporeal things. Perfect salvation is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through “Ignorance” came about “Defect” and “Passion,” the whole system springing from the Ignorance is dissolved by knowledge.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,296 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Nothing Is Certain, That Is Guaranteed, All We Can Do Is Try

To me, nothing is certain so I always think in terms of trying. I will try to work in a new profession, I will try living in a new country, I will try being in a relationship, I will try to live another day a little better than the last. The idea is that I know nothing is certain and it is impossible to know what anything will be like, no matter what it is. A job, a place to live, a person to be with, even to get up out of bed each day, how will the day go or will it be my last, is uncertain.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,295 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

I Have a Dream

It is a common dream, many people have it, but I have achieved it for many years on a small scale. I would now like to make my dream grow. I have built and had a successful school of this nature in Colorado, but I left that country and now live in New Zealand where I would like to rebuild it. I have purchased the property in Auckland to build the school on, and will sell my house to put towards the building of this new school, in all I have put in $1,500,000 of my own money. The property is quite large and borders a reserve, just a few hundred meters from the estuary.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,294 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Why Needing Money Is Necessary For Conscious Development

Many people hate money because our life is controlled by it. That is valid and true, but for every negative there is a positive, and the positive side of being controlled by money is what I would like to discuss. The most important part of achieving a happy life is eliminating all negative emotions. The complete eradication of negative feelings may be impossible, but a significant reduction is still pretty good and very realistic.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,294 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

What Goes Up Will Come Down

This article is about seeing and being able to use the positive in everything. We will start with exploring the foundation of being able to live a fully positive and successful life, what prevents it, and then proceed to more detail about the method. There is no point in discussing how to be successful until we have found and corrected the reasons we are not. If the engine is at full power but the plane is tightly tied to the ground, it will not move. First, we must remove the ropes.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,292 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Difference Between Your Character And Your Self

There is a difference between ones character and abilities and ones self. The skills are temporary, they die with the body, ones self continues. When we compare our skills and personal growth to each other in the process of our self-improvement, we have superiority and inferiority. That is where we get lost in ego. Ego separates us from our true knowledge of what we really are.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,288 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Take Passive Action

I can tell you your block of finding happiness, but you will not understand. This is normal, and why it is the greatest stumbling block for a seeker of truth. Truth of the Universe and truth of oneself.r

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,286 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Harmonizing The Minds

There are several steps in the process of self-improvement and finding Inner peace and happiness described in this article. These steps may take some time to complete, and I intended to give you an idea of the path of personal growth that will work towards eliminating ignorance.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,284 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Prison Break

The only way to be truly free is to accept your prison, be that in the society or in your own mind. In that acceptance, you have released your resistance. By releasing your resistance, you become free. Negative emotions and resistance is a denial of the objective reality of the situation and that is a resistance against truth, which means you are living in a lie.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,284 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Did You Choose To Believe It?

The question of having a choice is an interesting one about personal power, it is one we choose to believe. If you truly had a choice in your life and actions, would you do the many things you do that are detrimental to your self or others? How many times a month, a week, a day, do you say to yourself, 'Why did I do that? I know better, I knew I shouldn't have done that.' You did it because you do not have the ability to choose. Personal growth is gaining the ability to choose freely.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,280 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Does Fear Of Love Prevent Finding Happiness

As your eyes focus on one point, but your peripheral vision takes in and registers so much more in your subconscious, so do all your senses, of smell, sounds, touch, and taste. Self-improvement as well as inner peace and happiness can only be found when the fear of love is eliminated. The fear stems from what we imagine what we think is going to happen in a relationship through what can be called our peripheral vision of imagination.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,276 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

I Think, Therefore I Am

Your mind is a conglomeration of thoughts and memories, in itself, it does not exist. Mind is like a dustball, the ball itself is only a collection of dust held together by static electricity. Remove each spec of dust and what is left? Nothing. Then where did the electricity go? It has merged back with its source waiting for more dust to accumulate and hold them together. What can you really be then, other than this electrical energy. Thoughts are things like prickle weeds called Cocklebur. They stick to your clothes as you walk through the field.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,271 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How Being Graceful Equals Being Awake

Many people would like to be more present, awake, aware, as well as financially successful and equally importantly, have better relationships with someone who is actually ‘there’. In my years of trying to teach people how to attain these qualities I have been met with constant resistance to the principles that will give them what they want because, as buddha said; the truth is so simple, no one will understand. I hope this simple article will give some people the key to a very powerful method of changing your life.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,269 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Aim and Your Essential Nature

Much has been said about the importance of having an aim to give direction to your life for you to progress with your work. If you do not have an aim, nothing in your life can progress. Your aim is the engine which drives the entire vehicle. It is not only having any aim, it is having a correct and appropriate aim for your essential nature.r

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,265 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

You Cannot Find Something by Avoiding It.

If you run from it, how will you ever attain it. If the world is a form manifested by God and, if we run from the world, then how can we find God? You must get to know the world, and you know the world by knowing your self. You know yourself by observing yourself. In your objective observation of your feelings, desires and experiences, you discover what is true and what is false. What is false is what you have learnt and accepted as real and permanent when it is only acquired and temporary. What can be changed is not real.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,265 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Desires, Fears and Regrets; The Cause and End of Suffering and Limitations

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment, Buddha There are three things which rule our lives; desires, fears of all types and, regrets for mistakes, missed opportunities and decisions that just went wrong. A life lived without hesitation and doubt is a very free and happy life, as well as rare. This is a life worthy of striving towards. These three tyrants will be exposed in this article as what prevents a person from living a free and happy life. Our greatest strength is to know our weakness.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,259 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

I Create, Devils Or Angels

We all want to create, but we cannot all just be creative, yet. We must first be capable of creating wisely and of a quality that is beneficial in order to satisfy our creative nature and drive. If not, we may create things that are harmful to others or ourselves. When people say they just want to create, and they do without being ready, developed or skilled enough to do so in a wise and beneficial manner, they create devils rather than angels.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,258 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Stress and the Flow of Nature

Every machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. Please bear in mind for this talk that the word Stress is meant like stretched to its maximum. No machine exists that is a whole unit. All machines are a sum of parts. A machine does not get stressed, it is the parts that get stressed. Some parts get stressed in certain situations in which other parts remain within their limitations.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,256 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Choosing Your Path

There are many paths to spiritual and worldly freedom. Every person can choose a path that suits them, and many work equally well. We can choose Zen, Kabbalah or Sufi for example which are very different paths but all lead to the same end. Some paths take a person further and quicker than others in the same time frame, but to choose a path that is not suitable to your character will be a disappointing waste of your life. If you buy a house that is more than you can afford and take a big mortgage, then cannot pay the mortgage each month, you will lose the house and the money you put in.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,254 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Uproot Anger

As an example, when people speak about the roads on a snowy day and say it is a mess, that is a negative attitude. Even if it is true, it may be messy but it is what it is. You will deal with whatever you must to get where you are going and it will be over with. There is nothing that can be done, and being negative does not make it better. I know this is a small thing and you may not have even noticed, but it is significant.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,244 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Be Present

Being present and feeling bliss is the moment in which you are not thinking of anything else, hence the concept that we are already enlightened, is because what prevents enlightenment is living in thoughts of past or future, i.e., memories.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,242 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

All Things Have A Cost

The fact is that you pay for everything, every breath has a cost. When you receive something, anything, you pay for it in some way. If you don’t pay now, you will pay later, or you may have paid in advance. Self development cannot happen if you deny or ignore the reality that everything has a cost, and if we do not pay in some way, we will not get the value we could have.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,241 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Growth And Logic

There are many people who are drawing large numbers of followers, propagating that the world is changing and that the ‘energies’ are now different as humanity enters a realm of heightened awareness. They claim that this new period has changed the process of spiritual development such that a person can skip many levels of the process of development and go from totally unenlightened to full enlightenment instantly.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,240 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

A Living Teacher or Acceptance

The Sufis say that the way to find God is either through a living teacher or, failing that, is through acceptance. Acceptance of all things that come to you without judging them. The way of accepting all things without complaining or feeling bad is to know that the reason these difficulties exist is so that you can be offered the opportunity to accept what is coming to you without your ego determining good or bad. It is training you in endurance, which is self will, inner strength, or, will power.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,239 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Your True Nature is Free and This is How to Attain That State

Your true nature, a state of full consciousness, it is within your grasp, you just do not know it. You see, your true nature is not an organ or a particular thing that you can call your soul. True consciousness, enlightenment, is a state of being. You could almost call it feeling an emotion or a mood. To be enlightened is just to be in a different mood but that mood is permanent and so very different than any other mood you can imagine. I am just trying to put it in words for you to understand. When you understand your true nature and what enlightenment is, you are there.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,239 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Difference Between Not Caring and Not Being Conce ed

Not caring is an empty, dead feeling. Not being conce ed is a very alive vibrant feeling that can come by keeping the awareness in the chest with no other thought, fully present. One is full and the other is empty. For this to be a full feeling, training and practice of repeating a word mantra (a mantra is any word that has an emotional impact or value to you) to get your mind focused and being able to sense within your body is necessary to be able to consistently do this on demand or have as a lasting or frequent state.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,222 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To End Pain And Find Happiness, Part 1

Why must we feel pain and suffering? That is a very good question and the answer is found in being able to see its usefulness. This article will show the reason that pain and suffering exists and how to end it by understanding its purpose for self-improvement to find inner peace and happiness.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,221 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Spiritual View Of Passion, Its Safety Or Danger

From a spiritual point of view, in order to achieve personal growth, you must have a passionate desire for enlightenment that is completely selfless. If your passion has anything to do with you, then certainly you can succeed in your goals, but there will be negative effects from having desires. For the goal to be spiritual, you must remove yourself first.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,218 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Get The Most Out Of What You Read

When we read something inspirational or poetic for example, our ability to understand is limited to what we have previously experienced. Everything is taken with identification in the literal sense, we try to identify the feelings of the author or the teaching. The problem is that you can only identify things that you have previously encountered. For example, if you have cooked for many years, but due to circumstances, you only know about 3 spices, that is it.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,216 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Eleventh Hour

I have found that there is a repeating theme, things that are reliant on something out of my control and must be done by a certain deadline, get done just in time.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,209 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Why There Is No Balancing The Material And Spiritual

Everyone is seeking the way to balance their material life with their spiritual aspirations and practices. I believe there is no way to balance the two because they are not in fact separate. For two things to balance against each other, they must be separate and different, but if there is only one thing, then you cannot value one thing against itself, hence why I say it is not possible to balance the two sides of life.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,208 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Finding Happiness And The Point Of Life

Many people tell me they cannot find any point to life. That is very sad of course, to continue to live just because it is the only alte ative to death. Maybe they are right, or maybe not. Even if you have a purpose and see a point, this article may help you increase joy and pleasure in your life.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,206 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Feel Love And Remove All Emotional Obstacles

The Law of Opposites is unavoidable in our world. It simply states that for everything, its opposite must also exist. This applies to temperature; hot and cold, weight; heavy and light, and emotions; love and hate. This article is about Love. Unfortunately, being a human on earth, that means there has to be an opposite force to the human emotion of love. The other side of the emotion of love can be many different negative states such as fear, hate, anger, jealousy, and several others.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,188 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Simplicity of Life

Searching for the meaning of life, ultimate reality? Thinking of going into a monastery because life is too tough? What do you think the right path to truth may be? There must be some special, mystical, hidden secret teaching or school out there that will bring you to liberation of the suffering and confusion of life, right? Be where your body is. That is where you will find Truth.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,187 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Is Humanity Safe To Be Self-Gove ed

Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching; ‘...To have harmony in the kingdom, keep the people’s belly full and bed warm.’ He was speaking of how to keep the country running peacefully through accepting the reality that if people are in want, they will react violently, even if that is self-defeating. What can we learn from this in regards to the current economic crisis in relation to the riots that are spreading globally. It is good to know what is going on in the world from the point of seeing how humans respond to difficulties and create their own trouble.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,186 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Pendulum Of Your Life

Here is a principle from the Kybalion that will help you change the direction of your life and find happiness. When the momentum of the swing of the pendulum in one direction runs out, it eventually swings the other way. The concept is like tossing a ball in the air, at one point, it stands still, and then starts to fall.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,160 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Key Factor in Finding a Real Teacher

In the search for knowledge especially spiritual knowledge, everyone wants the good stuff, high quality, the real meat of knowledge, but so few are willing to pay for it, and they do not understand how to pay. And so they float and wander from school to school, teacher to teacher always feeling disappointed and let down by inadequate teachers. “Another worthless empty teacher of just fluff. When will I find a real quality teacher who teaches the real stuff that can feed my hunger to learn and grow. Aren’t there any good teachers out there?

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,150 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

How To Make Life Roll Smoothly In Perfect Control

For a bike wheel to roll smoothly, all the spokes must be strong and well connected. They connect to the hub. The hub is the central point of the wheel and connects to the axel. As I discovered by my own experience, when one spoke out of the 20 on my bike wheel broke, the whole wheel was wobbly and I could not ride safely.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,128 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

Time And The Search For Knowledge

The search for knowledge and self-improvement drives many people in the path of personal growth. Knowledge and information are not the same although our educated minds have confused the two and made them one from the intellectual point of view. Information is like any other item, it can be collected and accumulated. To do this, it takes time, effort and money and then a place to store all that is collected. Then it is useless and the effort in its accumulation wasted if it is not shown off. So not only is time spent in its accumulation but also in its presentation and sharing.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,128 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

The Essence Of The Mind Is Like Air

This subject is very tricky to understand, it is simple, yet difficult to grasp because it is so simple. For this reason, there will be many discussions about it in different ways for you to have the variety of concepts that one may reach your understanding. Although there will be many lessons on the same topic, they may be seen as parts of one long lesson, but in truth, you could grasp the concept from not only any single lesson, but even from one line of one lesson.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,090 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

A Prince On The Garbage Dump

In many mystical teachings there is a common thought which, if you think about, may help you get a better grip on your life. Here are a few different lines, read each one on its own, and then see how they all come together like pieces of a jigsaw: God created all creatures equal, except man. To man, He gave freedom of choice. Man is created in the image and form of God. Man is a perfect copy of all the attributes of God but to become what he is created to be, he must use free will, as that is the only attribute that makes man superior to the animals and angels.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

1,084 views

By David SamuelRecently published1 topic

You Are Nothing More Than A Dust Bunny

Zen is an interesting path. It tells us that nothing exists including our self, that we have no essential reality or even a soul. This can be very confusing if left without deeper study to find its meaning. We are basically an accumulation of thoughts and desires. They make up the essential reality of your individual self. However, it is our thought habits, which keep us separated from discovering our true nature. This conundrum is where many people get stuck, saying that your true self prevents you from discovering itself.

Primary topic: Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction

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