Secret Ancient knowledge (Video)-Άγνωστη Αρχαία Γνώση

To be sincere I do not totally agree with the principles and "truths" exposed on this video, but I find it really uplifting and challenging to learn new elements on Earth history.

Για να είμαι ειλικρινής δεν συμφωνώ απόλυτα με τα στοιχεία που εκτίθονται στο βίντεο,αλλά το βρίσκω αληθινά αναμορφωτικό και προκλητικό να μαθαίνει κανείς νέα στοιχεία για την ιστορία της Γης. 


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Jim Rohn on Leadership-Ο Τζιμ Ρον για την Αρχηγία

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great challenge of life.

Εάν θέλεις να γίνεις ένας ηγέτης που έλκει ανθρώπους ποιότητας, το κλειδί είναι να γίνεις ένα άτομο ποιότητας ο ίδιος.Η ηγεσία είναι η ικανότητα να έλκεις κάποιον στα δώρα, δεξιότητες, και ευκαιτίες που προσφέρεις σαν ιδιοκτήτης, σαν μάνατζερ, και σαν γονέας.Αποκαλώ την αρχηγία σαν μια μεγάλη πρόκληση της ζωής.

 

What's important in leadership is refining your skills. All great leaders keep working on themselves until they become effective. Here are some specifics:

Αυτό που είναι σημαντικό στην αρχηγία είναι να βελτιώσετε τις δεξιότητες σου.Όλοι οι μεγάλοι ηγέτες συνέχισε να εργάζεστε στους εαυτούς σας μέχρι να γίνετε αποτελεσματικοί.Εδω είναι κάποιες λεπτομέρειες:

 

1) Learn to be strong but not rude. It is an extra step you must take to become a powerful, capable leader with a wide range of reach. Some people mistake rudeness for strength. It's not even a good substitute.

1)Μάθε να είσαι δυνατός,αλλά οχι προσβλητικός.Είναι ένα παραπάνω βήμα που πρέπει να πάρεις για να γίνεις δυνατός,ικανός ηγέτης με μια μεγάλη έκταση επέκτασης.Κάποιοι άνθρωποι μπερδεύουν την αγένεια με την δύναμη.Δεν είναι κάν καλό υποκατάστατο.

 

2) Learn to be kind but not weak. We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. We must be kind enough to tell somebody the truth. We must be kind enough and considerate enough to lay it on the line. We must be kind enough to tell it like it is and not deal in delusion.

2)Μάθε να είσαι καλός αλλά οχι αδύναμος.Δεν πρέπει να μπερδεύεις την καλωσύνη με την αδυναμία.Η καλωσύνη δεν είναι αδυναμία.Η καλωσύνη είναι ένα συγκεκριμένο είδος δύναμης.Πρέπι να είμαι καλοί αρκετά ώστε να λέμε την αλήθεια.Πρέπει να είμαστε καλοί αρκετά και να λαμβάνουμε υπόψην να το θέτουμε στην γραμμή.Πρέπει να είμαστε αρκετά καλοί ώστε να το λέμε όπως είναι ακριβώς και οχι να συνδιαλεγόμαστε στην αυταπάτη.

 

3) Learn to be bold but not a bully. It takes boldness to win the day. To build your influence, you've got to walk in front of your group. You've got to be willing to take the first arrow, tackle the first problem, discover the first sign of trouble.

3)Μάθετε να είσαστε  τολμηροί, αλλά οχι θρασύδειλοι.Χρειάζεται να γίνετε τολμηροί για να κερδίσετε καθημερινά.Για να χτίσεις την επιρροή σου,πρέπει να περπατήσετε μπροστά απο την ομάδα σου.Πρέπει να θέλετε να ρίχνετε την πρώτη βολή, να αντιμετωπίζετε το πρώτο πρόβλημα,ανακαλύψετε το πρώτο σημάδι του προβλήματος.

4) You've got to learn to be humble, but not timid. You can't get to the high life by being timid. Some people mistake timidity for humility. Humility is almost a God-like word. A sense of awe. A sense of wonder. An awareness of the human soul and spirit. An understanding that there is something unique about the human drama versus the rest of life. Humility is a grasp of the distance between us and the stars, yet having the feeling that we're part of the stars. So humility is a virtue; but timidity is a disease. Timidity is an affliction. It can be cured, but it is a problem.

4)Πρέπει να μάθετε να ήστε ταπεινοί, αλλά οχι δειλοί.Δεν μπορείτε να φτάσετε στην υψηλή ζωή με το να ήστε δειλοί.Κάποιοι άνθρωποι μπερδεύουν την δειλία με την ταπείνωση.Η ταπείνωση είναι σχεδόν μια παρόμοια με τον Θεό λέξη.Μια αίσθηση δέους.Μια αίσθηση θαυμασμού.Μια αφύπνιση της ανθρώπινης ψυχής και πνεύματος.Μια κατανόηση οτι είναι κάτι μοναδικό για το ανθρώπινο δράμα εναντίον της υπόλοιπης ζωής.Η ταπεινότητα είναι μια αρπαγή της απόστασης μεταξύ μας και των άστρων, έχοντας τελικά την αίσθηση οτι ήσαστε μέρος των άστρων.Έτσι η ταπείνωση είναι μια αρετή.Αλλά η δειλία είναι ασθένεια.Η δειλία είναι μια θλίψη.Μπορεί να θεραπευτεί, αλλά είναι ένα πρόβλημα.

 

5) Be proud but not arrogant. It takes pride to win the day. It takes pride to build your ambition. It takes pride in community. It takes pride in cause, in accomplishment. But the key to becoming a good leader is being proud without being arrogant. In fact I believe the worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. It's when you don't know that you don't know. Now that kind of arrogance is intolerable. If someone is smart and arrogant, we can tolerate that. But if someone is ignorant and arrogant, that's just too much to take.

5)Να ήστε περήφανοι,αλλά οχι αλαζονικοί.Χρειάζεται περηφάνεια για να κερδίσεις την ημέρα.Χρειάζεται περηφάνεια για να χτίσεις την φιλοδοξία σου.Χρειάζεται περηφάνεια για μια κοινότητα.Χρειάζεται περηφάνεια σαν αιτία, για εκπλήρωση.Αλλά το κλειδί είναι να γίνετε καλοί ηγέτες είναι να ήστε περήφανοι χωρίς να ήστε αλαζονικοί.Στην πραγματικότητα πιστεύω οτι το χειρότερο πράγμα της αλαζονίας είναι αλαζονία απο άγνοια.Είναι όταν δεν γνωρίζεις οτι δεν γνωρίζεις.Τώρα αυτό το είδος της αλαζονείας είναι μη ανυπόφορο.Εαν κάποιος δεν γνωρίζει και είναι αλαζονικός, αυτό είναι πολύ να το λάβει.

 

6) Develop humor without folly. That's important for a leader. In leadership, we learn that it's okay to be witty, but not silly. It's okay to be fun, but not foolish.

6)Αναπτύξτε το χιούμορ χωρίς τρέλλα.Είναι σημαντικό για έναν αρχηγό.Στην αρχηγία, μαθαίνουμε οτι είναι εντάξει να είναι πνευματώδης,αλλά οχι ηλίθια.Είναι εντάξει να υπάρχει διασκέδαση,αλλά οχι αστεία.

 

Lastly, deal in realities. Deal in truth. Save yourself the agony. Just accept life like it is. Life is unique. Some people call it tragic, but I'd like to think it's unique. The whole drama of life is unique. It's fascinating. And I've found that the skills that work well for one leader may not work at all for another. But the fundamental skills of leadership can be adapted to work well for just about everyone: at work, in the community, and at home.

Τέλος, διαπραγματευτείτε σε πραγματικότητες.Διαπραγματευτείτε στην αλήθεια.Σώσε τον εαυτό σου απο την αγωνία.Απλά δεχτείτε την ζωή όπως είναι.Η ζωή είναι μοναδική.Κάποιοι άνθρωποι το αποκαλούν τραγικότητα,αλλά θα ήθελα να σκεφτείτε οτι είναι μοναδική.Το πήρες δράμα της ζωής είναι μοναδική.Είναι φανταστική.Και εχω βρεί οτι οι δεξιότητες που δουλεύουν καλά για ενα αρχηγό μπορεί να μην δουλεύει για έναν άλλον.Αλλά οι βασικές δεξιότητες της ηγεσίας μπορούν να προσαρμοστούν στην δουλειά καλά για τον καθένα: στην εργασία,στην κοινότητα, και στο σπίτι.

 

To Your Success,

Στην επιτυχία σας

 

Jim Rohn

Τζιμ Ρον

This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher.

 Το άρθρο προωθηθηκε απο τον Τζιμ Ρόν,τον πρώτο στην Επιχειρηματικότητα Φιλόσοφο της Αμερικής

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*Translation into Greek language by Katerina Kostaki

*Μετάφραση στην Ελληνική γλώσσα απο την Κατερίνα Κωστάκη 

Historia de un lertrero-The history of a sign (Video)

This is a very touching video.Please watch it carefully ! I am sure you will be amazed by true that resides in this video...

Film production by Allonco Alvarez Barreda

Short story winner Cannes 2008

Όταν η Αγάπη συνάντησε την Ευτυχία-Μέρος 3ο (Βίντεο)

Όταν η Αγάπη συνάντησε την Ευτυχία-Μέρος 3ο από katerinakostaki

**Note: video narration on Greek language 

Όταν η Αγάπη συνάντησε την Ευτυχία-Μέρος 2ο (Βίντεο)

Όταν η Αγάπη συνάντησε την Ευτυχία-Μέρος 2ο... από katerinakostaki

Παρακολουθήστε το 3ο Μέρος της Εκπομπής "Το Φως της Αυγής-Όταν η Αγάπη συνάντησε την Ευτυχία"...εδώ!

**Note: video-narration on Greek language 

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

About the author

As a Depression-era child, Earl Nightingale was hungry for knowledge. From the time he was a young boy, he would frequent the Long Beach Public Library in California, searching for the answer to the question, "How can a person, starting from scratch, who has no particular advantage in the world, reach the goals that he feels are important to him, and by so doing, make a major contribution to others?".

 His desire to find an answer, coupled with his natural curiosity about the world and its workings spurred him to become one of the world's foremost experts on success and what makes people successful.
Earl Nightingale's early career began when, as a member of the Marine Corps, he volunteered to work at a local radio station as an announcer. The Marines also gave him a chance to travel, although he only got as far as Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Earl managed to be one of the few survivors aboard the battleship Arizona. After five more years in the service, Earl and his wife moved first to Phoenix then Chicago to build what was to be a very fruitful career in network radio.
As the host of his own daily commentary program on WGN, Earl Nightingale
arranged a deal that also gave him a commission on his own advertising sales. By 1957, he was so successful, he decided to retire at the age of 35. In the meantime, Earl had bought his own insurance company and had spent many hours motivating its sales force to greater accomplishments. When he decided to go on vacation for an extended period of time, his sales manager begged him to put his inspirational words on record.
The result later became the recording entitled The Strangest Secret, the first spoken word message to win a Gold Record by selling over a million copies.
In The Strangest Secret, Earl had found an answer to the question that had inspired him as a youth and, in turn, found a way to leave a lasting legacy for others About this time, Earl met a successful businessman by the name of Lloyd Conant and together they began an "electronic publishing" company which eventually grew to become a multi-million dollar giant in the self-improvement field. They also developed a syndicated, 5-minute daily radio program, Our Changing World, which became the
longest-running, most widely syndicated show in radio.
When Earl Nightingale died on March 28, 1989, Paul Harvey broke the news to the country on his radio program with the words, "The sonorous voice of the nightingale was stilled." In the words of his good friend and commercial announcer, Steve King, "Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn ssomething new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion."

About “The Strangest Secret”

This amazing message was first played for a group of salespeople at Earl
Nightingale's insurance agency. They were utterly electrified. Word of it spread like wildfire, and everyone who heard it was positively ignited into action. Requests for a recording of the message came pouring in—thousands of requests per week. Within no time, more than 200,000 people had called, written, or just walked right into Earl’s office to request a copy. As years went by, that number soared above 1,000,000.
By 1956, Earl Nightingale had already soared to successful heights as a Network radio announcer: the voice of Sky King; and host of his own daily radio and television show. Expanding his horizon, he bought a small Life Insurance company, insuring it's success by giving encouraging, inspiring, motivational talks to his sales staff. Then because he was going to be away, Earl wrote and recorded on a record, an essay which could be played during his absence. He called it THE STRANGEST SECRET.
The response to the message had such an impact on the staff that requests for copies to share with friends and families grew. Columbia Records filled the requests and with in a short period of time sales soared to over a million copies, earning a Gold Record - the first and only spoken word record to ever read Gold!
Today, more than 40 years later, The Strangest Secret remains one of the most powerful and influential messages ever recorded. It continues to transform the lives of everyone who hears and heeds it.

The Strangest Secret

Do you know what will happen to 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, and who believe they will be successful? By the age of 65, only five out of 100 will make the grade! Why do so many fail? What happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What became of their dreams, their hopes, their plans ... and why is there such a large disparity between what theses people intended to do and what they actually accomplished? That is ... The Strangest Secret.
Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was asked by a reporter, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?; The great doctor was silent a moment, and then he said, “Men simply don’t think!”
It’s about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked forward to, dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years. We live in the richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth ... a land of abundant opportunity for everyone.
However, if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, do you have any idea what will happen to those men and women by the time they’re 65? These 100 people believe they’re going to be successful. They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in their eye, an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a pretty interesting adventure to them.
But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich, four will be financially independent, five will still be working, and 54 will be broke — depending on others for life’s necessities.
Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail? What has happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans ... and why is there such a large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they actually accomplished?

THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS

 First, we have to define success and here is the best definition I’ve ever been able to find: “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that’s what he or she wants to do. A success is the entrepreneur who start his own company because that was his dream — that’s what he wanted to do. A success is the salesperson who wants to become the best salesperson in his or her company and sets forth on the pursuit of that goal.
A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that’s what he or she decided to do ... deliberately. But only one out of 20 does that! The rest are “failures.”
Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a wonderful book called Man’s Search for Himself, and in this book he says: “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice … it is conformity.” And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
We learn to read by the time we’re seven. We learn to make a living by the time we’re 30. Often by that time we’re not only making a living, we’re supporting a family. And yet by the time we’re 65, we haven’t learned how to become financially independent in the richest land that has ever been known. Why? We conform! Most of us are acting like the wrong percentage group — the 95 who don’t succeed.
 
GOALS 
 
Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular, and why others don’t seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the “magic touch.” You’ve heard people say, “Everything he touches turns to gold.” Have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful? And, on the other
hand, have you noticed how someone who’s a failure tends to continue to fail?
The difference is goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple. Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take — it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Now let’s take another ship — just like the first — only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach — a derelict. It can’t go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance.
It’s the same with a human being. However, the human race is fixed, not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing. Society today can be likened to a convoy in time of war. The entire society is slowed down to protect its weakest link, just as the naval convoy has to go at the speed that will permit its slowest vessel to remain in formation.
That’s why it’s so easy to make a living today. It takes no particular brains or talent to make a living and support a family today. We have a plateau of so-called “security.”
So, to succeed, all we must do is decide how high above this plateau we want to aim.
Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement — the key to success and the key to failure is this:

WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
 
This is The Strangest Secret! Now, why do I say it’s strange, and why do I call it a secret? Actually, it isn’t a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That’s why it’s strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.
Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only wait ... a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”
William James said: “We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief.” He continues, “ ... only you
must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”
My old friend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: “If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.” George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? We become what we think about. A person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because that’s what he’s thinking about. Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he’s going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety, fear, and worry will thereby create a life of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing ... he becomes nothing.


AS YE SOW — SO SHALL YE REAP
 
The human mind is much like a farmer’s land. The land gives the farmer a choice. He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care what is planted. It’s up to the farmer to make the decision. The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant. If the farmer plants two seeds — one a seed of corn, the other nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes care of the land, what will happen?
Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants — one corn, one poison as it’s written in the Bible, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant ... success ... or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal ... or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on.
But what we plant it must return to us.
The problem is that our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value.
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free — our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.
All these priceless possessions are free.
But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.
Our mind can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big ones. So decide now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life.
Do you want to excel at your particular job? Do you want to go places in your
company ... in your community? Do you want to get rich? All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.
It not only will, there’s no way that it cannot. You see, that’s a law — like the laws of Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of gravity. If you get on top of a building and jump off, you’ll always go down — you’ll never go up.
And it’s the same with all the other laws of nature. They always work. They’re inflexible. Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal.
Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts. We are where we are because that’s exactly where we really want or feel we deserve to be — whether we’ll admit that or not. Each of us must live off the fruit of our thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow — next month and next year — will mold your life and determine your future. You’re guided by your mind.
I remember one time I was driving through eastern Arizona and I saw one of those giant earth-moving machines roaring along the road with what looked like 30 tons of dirt in it — a tremendous, incredible machine — and there was a little man perched way up on top with the wheel in his hands, guiding it. As I drove along I was struck by the similarity of that machine to the human mind. Just suppose you’re sitting at the controls of such a vast source of energy. Are you going to sit back and fold your arms and let it run itself into a ditch? Or are you going to keep both hands firmly on the wheel and control and direct this power to a specific, worthwhile purpose? It’s up to you. You’re in the driver’s seat. You see, the very law that gives us success is a
double-edged sword. We must control our thinking. The same rule that can lead people to lives of success, wealth, happiness, and all the things they ever dreamed of — that very same law can lead them into the gutter. It’s all in how they use it … for good or for bad. That is The Strangest Secret!
Do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told us to do: pay the price, by becoming the person you want to become. It’s not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you’re immediately a successful person — you are then in that rare group of people who know where they’re going.
Out of every hundred people, you belong to the top five. Don’t concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal — leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Start today. You have nothing to lose — but you have your whole life to win.

30-DAY ACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE
STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU

For the next 30-days follow each of these steps every day until you have achieved your goal.
1. Write on a card what it is you want more that anything else. It may be more money.
Perhaps you’d like to double your income or make a specific amount of money. It may be a beautiful home. It may be success at your job. It may be a particular position in life. It could be a more harmonious family.
Write down on your card specifically what it is you want. Make sure it’s a single goal and clearly defined. You needn’t show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day. Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up, and immediately you have something to work for — something to get out of bed for, something to live for.
Look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night.
As you look at it, remember that you must become what you think about, and since you’re thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours. In fact, it’s really yours the moment you write it down and begin to think about it.
2. Stop thinking about what it is you fear. Each time a fearful or negative thought comes into your mind, replace it with a mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal. And there will come a time when you’ll feel like giving up. It’s easier for a human being to think negatively than positively. That’s why only five percent are successful! You must begin now to place yourself in that group.
“Act as though it were impossible to fail,” as Dorothea Brande said. No matter what your goal — if you’ve kept your goal before you every day — you’ll wonder and marvel at this new life you’ve found.
3. Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render. Most people will tell you that they want to make money, without understanding this law. The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must earn money. This is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing, or a free ride, to fail in life. Success is not the result of making money;
earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.
Most people have this law backwards. It’s like the man who stands in front of the stove and says to it: “Give me heat and then I’ll add the wood.” How many men and women do you know, or do you suppose there are today, who take the same attitude toward life? There are millions.
We’ve got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
Don’t start your test until you’ve made up your mind to stick with it. If you should fail during your first 30 days — by that I mean suddenly find yourself overwhelmed by negative thoughts — simply start over again from that point and go 30 more days.
Gradually, your new habit will form, until you find yourself one of that wonderful minority to whom virtually nothing is impossible.
Above all ... don’t worry! Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling. The only thing that can cause you to worry during your test is trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is hold your goal before you; everything else will take care of itself.
Take this 30-day test, then repeat it ... then repeat it again. Each time it will become more a part of you until you’ll wonder how you could have ever have lived any other way. Live this new way and the floodgates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed. Money? Yes, lots of it. But what’s more important, you’ll have peace ... you’ll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful, successful lives.

Start today. You have nothing to lose. But you have a life to win.
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Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle (Chapter 1)

Chapter 1
Silence and Stillness

 

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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you
lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is
the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.
***
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in
which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without
that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.
You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
***
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of
external silence is inner stillness.
Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it.
Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within
yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.
See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not thinking.
You are aware, but not thinking.
***
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still
alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective
human conditioning.
***
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are,
how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
***
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You
connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive
in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is love.
***
Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even when there
is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in
which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness
itself.
You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense
perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner
stillness.
***
Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner
resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you
into that realm of inner peace that is stillness.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes
— you are still, you are at peace.
***
Pay attention to the gap — the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space
between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap
between the in-breath and out-breath.
When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something” becomes — just
awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you
and replaces identification with form.
***
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to
problems are found.

***
Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself — the
underlying consciousness out of which every form is born. And how could that be
separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out of that and is
being sustained by it.
It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and
all other forms.
***
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a
thing, and it is not of this world.
***
When you look at a tree or a human being in stillness, who is looking? Something
deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking at its creation.
In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is
what you see when you look from stillness without thought.
***
Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or
faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that
humanity needs most at this time?
But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to
be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and
listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct
your words and actions.

Stillness Speaks

Eckhart Tolle on Wikipedia

Warrior of the Light - Volume 2-(Paulo Coelho)- Ο Πολεμιστή του Φωτός (Μέρος 2ο)

Warrior of the Light - Volume 2
Ο Πολεμιστής του Φωτός -Μέρος 2ο

Coelho,  Paulo
Παολο Κοέλο

 Published: 2008
Έκδοση 2008

Conversation with the Master
Συζητήσεις με τον Δάσκαλο


1. The journey 
Το ταξίδι

During the recent  move  to my new  apartment, I found a series  of notes of my  conversations with  J., who  belongs to the  R.A.M. order, a small brotherhood devoted to the study of oral traditions and  the world's sym- bolic  language. These  notes   cover  our  meetings from  February 1982 through to 1990.
Κατά την πρόσφατη μετακίνηση μου στο νέο μου διαμέρισμα,βρήκα μια σειρά απο σημειώσεις απο τις συζητήσεις μου με τον Τζ., που ανήκει στην τάξη του R.A.M.,μια μικρή αδελφότητα που είναι αφοσιωμένη στις σπουδές των προφορικών παραδόσεων και στην παγκόσμια συμβολική γλώσσα.Αυτές οι σημειώσεις κάλυψαν τις συναντήσεις μας απο τον Φεβρουάριο του 1982 μέχρι το 1990.

I recently asked  him  whether I might share  parts  of these  texts;  he agreed, I have transformed the texts into dialogue for better  reading, and the words are not exactly  those  used  by J., although the content is abso- lutely  faithful  to that which  I heard.
Πρόσφατα τον ρώτησα εαν θα μπορούσα να μοιραστώ μέρη αυτών των κειμένων.Συμφώνησε και εχω μεταμορφώσει τα κείμενα σε διαλόγους για καλύτερα διάβασμα,και οι λέξεις δεν είναι ακριβώς αυτές που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν απο τον Τζ., παρότι το περιεχόμενο είναι απόλυτα πιστό σε οτι άκουσα.

These  texts  are  not  in  exact  chronological order. I decided to  begin with  some of our conversations from 1986, which  was when he insisted I go on the Road to Santiago.
Αυτά τα κείμενα δεν βρίσκονται σε ακριβή χρονολογική σιερά.Αποφάσισα να ξεκινήσω με κάποιες συζητήσεις μας απο το 1986, που ήταν όταν επέμενε να πάω στον Δρόμο στο Σαντιέγκο.

- You said  that  going  on the Road  to Santiago is important. For it, one must  give  up  everything for  some  time:  family,  work,  projects.  And  I don't know  whether I'll find everything the same when I return.
- Indeed I hope  you won't.
-Είπες οτι πηγαίνοντας στον Δρόμο προς το Σαντιέγκο είναι σημαντικό.Γι αυτό, κάποιος οφείλει να να παραιτηθεί απο οτιδήποτε για κάποιο διάστημα: οικογένεια,δουλειά,προιόντα/σχέδια.Και δεν γνωρίζω εαν θα βρω οτιδήποτε το ίδιο όταν θα επιστρέψω.

- So should I take the risk of losing  everything I have  conquered up to now?
- Lose what?  A man  only  has  a soul  to be won  or lost; apart from  his life, he has  nothing. Past  or future lives  do  not  matter - at the  moment you are living this one, and  you should do so with  silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must  not lose is your  enthusiasm.
- I have a wife, whom I love.
-Πρέπει λοιπόν να ριψοκινδυνέψω του να χάσω οτιδήποτε έχω κατακτήσει μέχρι σήμερα;
-Να χάσεις τι;Ένας άνθρωπος έχει μόνο μια ψυχή για να κερδίσει ή χάσει.Πέρα απο την ζωή του,δεν έχει τίποτε.Περασμένες ή μελλοντικές ζωές δεν έχουν σημασία-στην στιγμή που ζείς αυτή την μια,και θα κάνεις και με την σιωπηλή σου κατανόηση,διασκέδαση και ενθουσιασμό.Αυτό που δεν πρέπει να χάσεις είναι ο ενθουσιασμός σου.
-Έχω μια σύζυγο, την οποία αγαπώ.

- (laughing) That  is the most  common excuse,  and  the most  foolish  of all. Love  has  never  prevented a man  from  following his dreams. If she truly  loves you, she will want  the best for you. And  anyway, you do not have a woman whom you love; the woman is not yours.  What  is yours  is the   energy  of  love,   which   you   aim   at  her.   You  can  do   that   from anywhere.
-(Γελώντας) Αυτή είναι η πιο συμηθισμένη δικαιολογία,και η πιο γελοία απο όλες.Η αγάπη ποτέ δεν προφύλαξε έναν άνθρωπο απο το να ακολουθεί τα όνειρα του.Εάν πραγματικά σε αγαπάει, θα θέλει το καλύτερο απο εσένα.Και τέλος πάντων, δεν έχεις μια γυναίκα που δεν σε αγαπάει.Η γυναίκα δεν είναι δική σου.Αυτό που είναι δικό σου είναι η ενέργεια της αγάπης, που στέλνεις σε αυτήν.Αυτό μπορείς να το κάνεις απο παντού.


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- And what  if I had no money  for the pilgrimage?
- Traveling is not  always a question of money,  but  of courage. You spent  a great  part  of your  life going  around the world like a hippie: what money  did  you  have  then?  None.  You could  hardly afford  the  tickets, and  nevertheless I believe  they  were  some  of the best years  of your  life - eating  badly,  sleeping at  railway stations, unable to  communicate  be- cause  of the language, being  forced  to depend on others  just in order to find some shelter  to spend the night.
Και εαν δεν εχω καθόλου χρήματα για το Προσκήνυμα;
-Ταξιδεύοντας δεν είναι πάντα ένα θέμα χρημάτων,αλλά κουράγιου.Πέρασες το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της ζωής σου γυρίζοντας τον κόσμο σαν χίπις: τι χρήματα είχες τότε;Τίποτε.Μπορούσες με τα βίας να βγάλεις τα εισιτήρια σου, και παρα ταύτα πιστεύω οτι ήταν απο τα καλύτερα χρόνια της ζωής σου-τρώγοντας άσχημα,κοιμώμενος σε σιδηροδρομικούς σταθμούς,ανίκανος να επικοινωνήσεις λόγω της γλώσσας, πιεζόμενος να εξαρτάσαι απο άλλους για να βρείς κάποια στέγη να περάσεις την νύκτα.

"Traveling is  sacred;  mankind has  traveled ever  since  the  dawn  of time,  in search  of hunting and  grazing ground, or milder climates.  Very few  men  manage to understand the  world without leaving their  home towns. 
Το ταξίδι είναι ιερό.Η ανθρωπότητα ταξίδευε απο την αυγή του χρόνου, σε αναζήτηση του κυνηγιού και αναζητώντας έδαφος ή ηπιότερα κλίματα.Μόνο λίγοι άνθρωποι κατάφεραν να κατανοήσουν τον κόσμο χωρίς να εγκαταλείψουν τα σπίτια τους.

When  you  travel  - and  I am  not  speaking of tourism, but  of the solitary experience of a journey - four important things occur in your  life: a] One is in a different place, so the protective barriers no longer  exist.
To begin  with  this  can  be  alarming, but  soon  one  gets  used  to  it and starts  understanding how  many  interesting things there  are beyond the walls of one's garden.
Όταν ταξιδεύεις-και δεν μιλάω για τουρισμό,αλλά για μοναχική εμπειρία ενός ταξιδιού-τέσερα σημαντικά πράγματα συμβαίνουν στην ζωή σου :
α)Κάποιος βρίσκεται σε διαφορετικό μέρος, έτσι οι προστατευτικές δικλείδες δεν υπάρχουν πια.Για να ξεκινήσεις με αυτό μπορεί να είναι συγκλονιστικό, αλλά σύντομα κάποιος συνηθίζει και ξεκινάει να καταλαβαίνει πόσα ενδιαφέροντα πράγματα υπάρχουν πέρα απο τους τοίχους ενός κήπου.

b] Since  solitude can  be  great  and  oppressive, one  is more  open  to people one would not normally exchange a single word with,  back home
- waiters, other  travelers, hotel  staff, the passenger in the next seat in the bus.
β)Εφόσον η μοναχικότητα μπορεί να είναι σπουδαία και καταπιεστική, ένας είναι πιο ανοικτός στους ανθρώπους που δεν θα μπορούσε φυσιολογικά να ανταλλάξει μια απλή λέξη μαζί τους, πίσω στο σπίτι,  σε αναμονή, με άλλους ταξιδιώτες, ξενοδοχείο, προσωπικό, ο επιβάτης στην διπλανή  θέση στο λεωφορείο.

c] One starts  depending on others  for everything: finding a hotel,  buy- ing something, knowing how  to catch  the next train.  One begins  to real- ize that  there  is nothing wrong with  depending on others  - on the  con- trary,  it is a blessing.
γ)Κάποιος ξεκινάει να εξαρτάται απο άλλους για οτιδήποτε: βρίσκοντας ένα  ξενοδοχείο, αγοράζοντας κάτι, γνωρίζοντας πως να προλάβει το επόμενο τραίνο.Κάποιος ξεκινάει να διαπιστώνει οτι δεν υπάρχει τίποτε λάθος με το να εξαρτάται απο άλλους.Το αντίθετο είναι μια ευλογία.

d]  One  speaks in  a  language one  doesn't understand, uses  money whose worth one does not know,  and  wanders down streets  for the very first time.  One knows the old I, with  all it learned, is completely useless in the face of these  new  challenges - and  begins  discovering that,  buried deep  down in one's unconscious, there  is something far more  interesting, adventurous, open  to the world and to new experiences.
"To travel  is the experience of ceasing  to be the person you  are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are."
δ)Κάποιος μιλάει μια γλώσσα που κάποιος δεν καταλαβαίνει, κάποιος χρησιμοποιεί χρήματα που δεν αξίζουν κάποιοι να γνωρίζουν, και περιπλανάται στους δρόμους πάνω-κάτω για πρώτη φορά.Κάποιος γνωρίζει το παλιό εγω, με οσα έμαθε, είναι εντελώς άχρηστο στην εμφάνιση  των νέων προκλήσεων - και ξεκινάει να το ανακαλύπτει, θαμένα βαθειά μέσα στο υποσυνείδητο του,υπάρχει κάτι πιο ενδιαφέρον,περιπετειώδες, ανοικτό στον κόσμο και στις νέες εμπειρίες.
"Το να ταξιδεύεις είναι μια εμπειρία του να παύεις να είσαι το άτομο που προσπαθείς να είσαι, και να γίνεις το άτομο που είσαι πραγματικά".

Translation in Greek language by Katerina Kostaki
Ελεύθερη μετάφραση στα Ελληνικά απο την Κατερίνα Κωστάκη
Επίσημη ιστοσελίδα/Official webpage: http://www.academyofinnerlight.net

Nosso Lar (2010) -(Astral City ) -Η Πόλη μας (Movie)

Όταν πριν περίπου ενάμιση χρόνο παρακολούθησα για πρώτη φορά την ταινία "Nosso Lar" ή "Astral City", η προβολή της ήταν μόνο στην πορτογαλική γλώσσα ή την αγγλική.
When I first watched the movie Nosso Lar or Astral City one and half year ago it was played only on Portoguesse and English language.

Χαίρομαι ιδιαίτερα που επιτέλους η ταινία μεταφράστηκε και στα ελληνικά.
I am really excited that this movie has been translated into the Greek Language.

Η αλήθεια είναι πως όταν παρακολούθησα την ταινία ένιωσα ιδιαίτερα συγκλονισμένη από τις εξαίσιες εικόνες, την απεικόνιση τόσο του Παραδείσου όσο και της Κόλασης, των ανθρώπων, και των Αγγελικών μορφών, αλλά και το σκοτάδι που επικρατεί τόσο στην Κόλαση όσο και στην ψυχή των ανθρώπων.
The truth is that when I watched this movie I felt delighted by the marvellous imagery,the depiction of Heaven and Hell as well,people and Angel Beings,but also the darkness that holds firmly on Hell and Human Soul as well.

"Nosso Lar" στα πορτογαλέζικα σημαίνει "Το σπίτι μας" είναι το μπεστ σέλλερ του συγγραφέα Francisco Candido Xavier.
"Nosso Lar" in Portoguesse means "Our Home", and it's the best seller of author Francisco Candido Xavier.

Στο συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο και ταινία ο ήρωας Andre Luiz, ένας συμβατικός ιατρός πεθαίνει ξαφνικά περνώντας στην Κόλαση, όπου διαπιστώνει την σκοτεινή και φρικτή ύπαρξη των ανθρώπων που βιώνουν την πραγματικότητα της Κόλασης εξαιτίας των πράξεων τους.
On this specific book and movie the hero Andre Luiz, a conventional doctor suddenly passes away to Hell, where he realizes the dark and terrible being of humans who experience the Hell reality because of their deeds.

Από εκεί διασώζεται από φωτεινά πνεύματα που τον μεταφέρουν σε άλλη διάσταση, όπου βιώνει μια μορφή θεραπείας,την οποία αμφισβητεί στην αρχή,  αλλά στην συνέχεια αποδέχεται.
He is saved from there by luminous Spirits who transfer him onto another reality,where he also experienced a sort of healing,which he defies in the beginning,but obviously accepts later on.



 

Με την βοήθεια ενός φωτεινού πνεύματος του Clarencio  επισκέπτεται μια μοντέρνα αποικία, την Αστρική Πόλη, όπου μαθαίνει την Μεταμψύχωση και την Ζωή μετά θάνατον.
By the support of a luminous Spirit, Clarencio, he visits a modern colony, the Astral City,where he learns about Reicarnation and Afterlife.

Η ταινία περιέχει καταπληκτικές σκηνές από τοπία αιθερικά, μετα-μοντέρνες τεχνολογίες, αλλά και στιγμές συγκινητικές όπως η συνάντηση του ήρωα ιατρού με την πεθαμένη μητέρα του, η οποία βρίσκεται σε υψηλότερο επίπεδο δόνησης .
The movie contains incredible scenes of etheric landscapes, -modern technologies,but also humbled moments like the meeting of the hero with his dead mother, who abides higher level of vibrations.

Οι θεραπευτές, Αγγελικές μορφές, βοηθούν τους ανθρώπους που πεθαίνουν από τον πόλεμο.
The healers, Angel spirits help humans who die on war.


 

Ο Ήρωας μετά την εκπαίδευση του επιθυμεί να δει την οικογένεια του χωρίς να γίνει θεατός ωστόσο σε αυτούς, και τότε μένει έκπληκτος από όσα μαθαίνει τόσο για την οικογένεια του,όσο και απο την δύναμη της Αγάπης και της Συγχώρεσης.
The hero after his training shows a desire to see his family whith being seen by them as well, and becomes astonished by learning about his family and the Power of Love and Forgiveness.

Nosso Lar pdf (free download)-English language

Movie details on Imdb.com

Chico Xavier on Wikipedia 

 

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What a wonderful world-Louis Armstrong

What a wonderful world ~Lοuis Armstrong from Katerina Kostaki on Vimeo.

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