Don Tolman + Ancient Wisdom + Modern Technology

How Nutrition Can Save America

Nutrition Can Save America!

Tap of the Mornin' with Brad Yates

A Guide to An Extraordinary Life

Global Vision

D-Talkz DVD Preview from Conscious Lifestyler on Vimeo.

Our Right to be Wealthy

The 7 Principles of Mindful Wealth

Four Questions for You

The Warrior's Prayer - Stuart Wilde

Happiness

We are really advocates of just getting as happy as you can be — which takes care of everything. Even if you don't have reason to be happy — make it up. Fantasize it. Make a decision that you're going to be happy one way or another — no matter what. "No matter what, I'm going to be happy! If I have to ignore everybody; if I have to never watch television again; if I have to never pick up a newspaper again, I'm going to be happy. If I never have to see that person's face again, I'm going to be happy. If I have to see that person's face, I'm going to find something to see in that person's face that makes me happy. I'm going to be happy. I'm going to be happy. I'm going to be happy."

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Sacramento, CA on Saturday, March 15th, 2003

Our Love,
Jerry and Esther

Our Loss of Icons

RESPECT FOR OUR LOST ICONS {by Nadine Jessel}

We just lost three icons and many are yet to come;

From their warm hearts, their virtues have spoken from.

Our lives are too rushed and we don’t stop to reflect;

The gifts of talented icons which we should honour and respect.

Your esteem for Ed McMahon and Farrah Facwett is not up for debate;

But the mixed views of Michael Jackson, I sadly do relate.

Michael had a troubled life and that’s a tragic shame;

For his eccentric actions, show him pity more than blame.

When John F. Kennedy was shot, oh how the world wept;

But he too had dark secrets, inside where they all slept.

The loss of Princess Diana hit the world with a thrust;

She captured our hearts, our support and our undying trust.

Elvis was a troubled soul, trapped within his self abuse;

To avoid his death in the end, there was absolutely no use.

Elvis and many others met their fate as did Michael;

For toxic abuse repeats itself in a perpetual destructive cycle.

Here I mention only a few, but there were many more;

Some outshine in spirit, but some in misery evened the score.

Pay them the homage that they rightly deserve;

For in death, their dark side we won’t observe.

Whether president, war hero or the best talent in sight;

They are all now sleeping angels in their own right.

Many war heroes fought for our freedom and died;

They too had imperfections which cannot be denied.

Some of our idols entertained us spreading joy and fun;

Others fought for our freedom or said how our countries are run.

The loss of our icons we have come to dread;

Their inspirations joined to our hearts by an invisible thread.

They gave light to our souls with their talents so bright;

To defame them in death, just isn’t right.

No matter the contribution to society they dealt;

Their talents and inspirations were profoundly felt.

Denouncing the spirits of the dead is an expression of our fear;

For our deepest wounds are echoed when we look into the mirror.

So, one last tribute to the lost icons whose talents we behold;

For they all had some darkness and many secrets untold.

It takes integrity to be heartfelt and kind;

Please honour the legacies that these icons have left behind.

[Nadine Jessel, June 29, 2009]

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“Heal the world, make it a better place,

For you and for me, and the entire human race.” ~ Michael Jackson ~

"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am." ~ Princess Diana ~

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it.

That's what happens to me. I can't help it." ~ Elvis Presley ~

"I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience." ~ Farrah Facwett ~

"There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it’s euphoria

and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night." ~ Ed McMahon ~

Greatness

Everyone Can Become Great

“It is within the power of every man to become great.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles from The Science of Being Great

Do you think you can become great? Coupla things on that: 1) EVERYONE can become great; and, 2) As per Ford, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Too often we look at those we admire and think it must have been their destiny to achieve greatness. Something in their genes or astrological chart or just sheer luck.

Huh? That’s just a REALLY weak excuse for us failing to step up to our own greatness.

As Wattles says, ““It is within the power of every man to become great.”

And the great Paulo Coelho echoes that when he says, “I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.”

YOU HAVE SEEDS OF GREATNESS IN YOU!

I hope you already know that and I hope you have enough strength to work on yourself till you manifest it and most fully give yourself to the world. Why? Well, we need it. But, more importantly, YOU need it! As Abraham Maslow states: “If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”

You might be thinking, “Oh, but me? I can’t possibly be great. You should have seen how I was raised.” Or, “Not for me. I’m in prison.” Or, “Me? blah blah blah blah boring story blah.”

Whatever. You only need to look at so many people like Oprah or Malcolm X or 50 Cent (OMG. Former thug drug dealer turned artist turned future billionaire simply rockin’ his greatness!) to anyone else you wanna pick who had way worse circumstances than you and turned it around.

Of course, the STATISTICS will tell you that you won’t do it. But who gives a *%$# about statistics? If one in a million make it, those are great odds. How many of you are there? Just do it. :)

So, I’ll pick up my megaphone one more time: “IT IS WITHIN YOUR POWER TO BECOME GREAT!!!”

*stops yelling and sets the megaphone down* :)

Thanks to Brian Johnson's Philosopher's Notes Episode 45 for this post

The Law of Relativity

The Law of Relativity

Energy isn't positive or negative. It can't be judged without comparison. No matter how successful you are, someone will always be more successful at something than you. No matter how grim your circumstances may seem there is someone who would welcome them in contrast to their own. What is simply is. Our judgment is chosen illusion.

No goal, thought, idea or obstacle is large or small, far or near, overwhelming or simplistic until you relate it to something else. The only difference between goals that you believe to be simple to achieve and ones you believe to be challenging is what you believe about them. Are you really where you think you are? Does there have to be that many steps in between you and your goal or is that something you assume? Are the steps truly large or small?

If you change your relationship to a dream you change the attainability of it. If you dissolve the illusion of size, difficulty and distance you come to realize that any goal is equally achievable. The actions you take to attain them may be different but that doesn't make them any more difficult or time consuming. Change your perspective and you change how you relate to your goal. 

Jayne Moffitt is a Bestselling Author, Life Coach and Teacher of Spiritually based success principals.  Her globally based company is dedicated to helping the entrepreneurial spirit achieve success and abundance while embracing fulfillment in every area of their life.  We honor those adventurers, visionaries, catalysts and dreamers who believe they can change the world - because we know they can.   You can learn more about Jayne Moffitt and her work at www.TheUnabridgedLife.com. 

Fullfilling All Your Desires

Thanks to Brian at: http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/503-philosophersnotes/

 Episode 5: Why Not Be a Little (or a Lot :) Unreasonable?!?

"Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don't aim for it all, you'll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want." ~ Richard Koch from The 80/20 Principle

Miracles

      "The role of teaching and learning is actually reversed in the thinking of the world.  The reversal is characteristic.  It seems as if the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner rather than to himself.  Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a special activity, in which one engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time.  The course, on the other hand, emphasizes that to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same.  It also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well." - A Course In Miracles - Manual for Teachers

     I do wish I still had my copy of "A Course In Miracles" on the shelf; going to have to get another copy.  I am experiencing so many miracles these days; love is pouring from my heart and coming back from others.  I suppose some of the learnings from the "Manual for Teachers" that had been long forgotten have miraculously been given to me again. 

     Yes, I am humble, and caring.

Namaste,

David 

Thanks to Judith Geiger for this quote

                 

 

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

- Dawna Markova