Tune Into Power

Most of us struggle daily to pay the bills, keep our jobs, and maintain our peace of mind. Wouldn’t you love to say goodbye to these endless preoccupations and greet the dawning of each day knowing that you have an exceptionally satisfying and empowered eperience of being alive?

If you enjoy the sensation we humans call success, you need to ask yourself questions about your life.

What are you currently using your life for? What would you live for? What would you die for?

And how do you answer these question?

Let me ask - do you know what the most visited part of a book store is, anywhere in the world?

If you said - the the "How to" section" - give yourself 100 points!

I wonder how many 'How to...' books there are in libraries and bookstores around the world. Probably somewhere in the hundreds of thousands. "How to Make a Million", "Think and Grow Rich", "Rich Man, Poor Man", "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard", and many, many others are available. Check your book collection at home or your office drawer - maybe you have a copy of a book that let's you know the big secret to success. I have read many such books avidly in the past, and my experience of then has been rewarding, to some extent. They do inspire, with vivid stories of victories over defeat, and the tell you, step-by-step, what it took the author to accomplish his or her victories.

Before I actually went through a process that altered my life, and in which I authored my own purpose in life, I would read these books and as I said, be inspired by them. But a few moments after finishing the book, or a few days, or weeks later, the inspiration wold evaporate, and I would be back at the agonizing survival grind, struggling with work that I hated, or results that just would not happen.

It's a curious thing, these "How To" books. Have you ever asked yourself -"If the 'secret' of success is out, how come I keep failing!" And, shouldn't everyone be successful - now that the 'secrets' are available to everyone? Or, at least to everyone who can read?

Or does it take something else?

Maybe we've become a culture - across the globe - that's looking for 'handy' information. Maybe, we're just listening for something to use.

You could be saying to yourself - "Well, it's something useless if you can't use it for something, isn't it!"

Consider, for the moment, what empowers people cannot be used by them[.

Maybe, just maybe, it takes more than listening for something that you can use.Perhaps we need a listening for something powerful and not useful.


It might just be that looking for tips, asking "How am I doing", looking for presciptions, asking - "How does this apply, how am I going to fix it" -- this looking for handy information -- is no will to be with what is worthy of being with. It is different from the will for knowledge or useful information.

Here's another way to 'listen' to your favorite quotations

If you've looked at inspirational quotations and scoured them, from time to time, for something to 'fix' in your life, here's an invitation. Step away from your usual way of listening to quotations as tips, guidelines, clues, or even as "something that calls me, and speaks to me".

Listen for something powerful in each of the following quotations from people who have accomplished something extraordinary with their lives. They are business men and women, artists, physicists, rock stars, poets, painters, writers, life coaches and more. It may be a little difficult at first. That's good - you may never have listened to what is being said in this way before, and there is something here for you to discover... It may feel pointless, and a waste of time to you to look at these quotations without vetting them for 'usefulness' - but take the case that it is complete arrogance to think that you were born in such a way that anything that is valid you are going to understand. Therefore, anything that you don't understand must be invalid!

Even worse is another way of listening, and that is to listen for -- relief! For self gratification. To justify something 'bad' that happened. I promise you, there is nothing in those ways of listening for you or for some area in your life that yo really want to impact.

So just listen for something powerful here. Get present to the lives of these human beings, if you know a little about them, and to their accomplishments, and to what it might have taken on their part to experience the thoughts that they think.

Listen for what their purpose and their vision of their lives might be like, what they may have sacrificed, given up, forgiven about themselves, or about other people, what they might have let go of ... and what was at stake for them.

What would it be like to wake up in the morning like one of them? What would they be thinking? Doing? What would they be having?

Tune In To Pure Power!

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
- Bruce Barton

(When I first 'heard' this one - I broke into goose bumps. What I got was that, up to that point in my life, I was using my life for other people so that I could avoid shining in my own right! The actions that I took thereafter were to take responsibiity for my own life, work out my life's purpose, and bring love of my own life into my life!)

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
- Michael Althsuler
(What did you 'hear' here?)

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
- John Powell

(Start writing down what you hear, or better yet, share it with a friend. That will make two of you listening for something powerful - what would that be like?)

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Blaise Pascal

"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf."
- Native American Proverb

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside awakens."
- Carl Gustav Jung

"Fall down seven times; stand up eight times."
- Japanese Proverb

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
- Warren Buffett

"People with small minds talk about other people. People with average minds talk about events. People with great minds talk about ideas"
- Anonymous

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
- William Connor Magee

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
- Oprah Winfrey

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
- Wayne Dyer

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go."
- T.S. Elliot

"Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men's blood."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
- Washington Irving

"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."
- Mark Twain

"You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky

"Control your destiny or somebody else will."
- Jack Welch

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
- Lee Iacocca

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
- Chinese Proverb

"It's always fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
- Abraham H. Maslow

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them."
- Stephen Covey

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
- Erma Bombeck

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
- John F. Kennedy

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces."
- Wilma Rudolph, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events 1960 Summer Olympics

"Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground."
- Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."
- Denis Waitley

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
- Richard M. DeVos

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale

"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination."
- W. Clement Stone

"The most important thing about goals is having one."
- Geoffry F. Abert

"This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything."
- Scott Reed

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
- Napoleon Hill

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."
- Robert Collier

"Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket."
- Andrew Carnegie

"The first step to becoming is to will it."
- Mother Teresa

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
- John D. Rockefeller

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
- Richard M. DeVos

"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."
- Mae West

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them."
~ Stephen Covey

"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"The one without dreams is the one without wings."
~ Muhammad Ali

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
~ Marianne Williamson

"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal."
~ Mia Hamm

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
~ Chinese Proverb

"Life…can only be understood backwards…"
~ Soren Kierkegaard

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
~ Napoleon Hill

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
~ African Proverb

"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."
~ Robert De Niro

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
~ Satchel Paige

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
~ Bruce Springsteen

"It is never to late to be what you might have been."
~ George Eliot

"Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny."
~ Kamran Hamid

"Without deviation progress is not possible."
~ Frank Zappa

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
~ Carl Sandburg

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
~ Tony Robbins

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
~ Isaac Newton

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
~ Les Brown

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
~ Anthony Robbins

Be ashamed to die until you have accomplished something for Humanity.
~ Anonymous