How to Master the "Strangest Secret"

Secrets to perpetual success are all around you - just sit and think for awhile.

(Yeah, another gorgeous landscape money can't buy...)

Just getting going on yet another incredible project - to build a backend so you can find out all this material I have on your own pace.

It hit me during this, well -- OK, it was another dream that woke me up and so I sit here on my computer in the early hours writing it up so you can find it and improve your life. Yes, that's what I do - but only thank me if it turns out to really be helpful.

The equation that runs life is this:

Thoughts = Stuff.

What you have thought so far has resulted in the stuff around you. If you want better stuff in your life, then you need to change how you're thinking.

Yes, it's that simple.

Of course, there are a few catches to it - always is, I guess.

Napoleon Hill worked it out as:

"Whatever a person can conceive and believe, they can achieve."

So the equation format of this would be:

Conceive => Believe => Achieve.

The point of this is that those thoughts you really believe to be true - what you put your faith in - is what takes place around you.

And that is the bottom line to "The Secret" movie and that Law of Attraction.

The old Emerald Tablet had it (roughly translated) as "As within, so without."

There are other authors such as Christian Larson (of Optimist Creed fame) who wrote entire books on that one concept.

The point is that this is one of those core datums which keeps popping up, and explains everything through the ages. Just as you consider life to be, so it is. How you believe life works is even more potent.

Earl Nightingale got his big start when he recorded "The Strangest Secret." In this Gold record, he tracked this one concept back through all manner of people who said the same thing - Shakespeare, Voltaire, Norman Vincent Peale, tons of people.

But mainly he credited Napoleon Hill, with the summary statement (and the actual Strangest Secret) as: "We become what we think about."

Hill in turn got it from the 500 world leaders he interviewed over 20 years, starting with steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.

One of the people he credited with the success of his Foundation (which still exists today) was Charles F. Haanel ("Master Key System")

Haanel in turn can be traced to Thomas Troward ("Edinburg Lectures") - who studied all the major religions in their own language when he was a Judge in provincial India. (A more readable version is from his sole student Genevieve Behrend.)

And if you boil these religions down, you'll find they all have in common some version of the Golden Rule - as you treat others you will be treated.

Many of those can be traced as being influenced by the oldest known surviving practiced life philosophy - now called "Huna" - which has at its core 7 principles, the major one being

"The World is What You Think It Is."

Now you can see how this all traces back through the ages right up to where you are now, sitting and reading all this stuff.

The key point being, that no matter how it's phrased, it still comes back to the point that 

Thoughts = Stuff.

Your point is now to work with this and make it your own. Test this thoroughly for yourself - don't take my or anyone else's word for it. See if this is true for your own life. If you have a day where you are being critical, does this bring in people saying critical comments to you? If you act badly toward a person, or a pet (or any livestock), do you get more or less trust from them in return? If you act with openhanded giving, does what you really want start showing up in your own life?

It's going to have to be your own test - I can't do it for you from here. (Although, as always, you have my best prayers to go with you.)

Main thing being is that something told me today to let you know this again. 

Something in your own life brought this blog post to you and you've read it up to this point.

Does that mean, just maybe, that you should do something with this concept this time?

Sure, those links go to books I've published. And guess what - it's so you can get the data to improve your life. (If you want the printed versions instead of ebooks, punch around on my Lulu bookstore and you can find them.)

But if you get these books on your smartphone - and study them regularly - some of the details about how you change your thinking in order to change the life around you may rub off.

I'm putting together a site with some apps that will help you along this line.

Meanwhile, if you haven't already, you've got some studying (and thinking) to do.

Good Hunting!

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Life Secrets According to Matthew and Jesus

New life from old texts.

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I've been doing some work recently to find the most original versions of Jesus' teachings I can. Because the original texts weren't written in Greek, but ancient Syriac Aramaic. Fortunately, the early Church split into two distinct organizations, and the Eastern one didn't modify their texts (much) at all. The Western one "evolved" into our more modern King James Version and so on.

The point was, as in "What Jesus Really Said", to get a tool where these basic statements Jesus actually said were available for study - free from the bulk of the various interpretations and commentary.

So I got one of more basic translations (Etheridge) and pulled the phrases which aligned to the "Q" (the work which was derived from the common phrases in Matthew, Luke, and Mark Gospels). (Today I found this PDF based solely on Eastern Peshitta, so knock yourself out.)

Even though there is more work to do in this area, I thought to give you this nice little tool. It gave me inspirational dreams last night, which is always a great side benefit.

(The first paragraph comes from Judge Thomas Trowards, "Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning", which is found in the "Complete Thomas Troward Collection.")

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The Teaching of Jesus – The Master Keys to Understanding Life

“The teaching of Jesus, whether by word or deed, may, therefore, be summed up as follows. He says in effect to each of us: What you really are in essence is a concentration of the ONE Universal Life-Spirit into conscious Individuality if you live from the recognition of this Truth as your starting-point, it makes you Free. You cannot do this so long as you imagine that you have one center and the Infinite another you can only do it by recognizing that the two centers coincide, and that That which, as being Infinite, is incapable of centralization in Itself, finds center in you. ”

Judge Thomas Troward

1. But I say unto you, that you shall not rise up against evil: but if any one strike thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
2. Love your enemies; bless them who execrate you; do that which is good to him who hates you; and pray for them who lead you with a chain, and persecute you.
3. Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect!
4. All therefore that you will that men shall do unto you, so also do you unto them
5. But why dost thou look at the rod that is in thy brother's eye, while the rafter that is in thine own eye thou dost not consider? Or how sayest thou to thy brother, Permit that I draw forth the rod from thine eye, and, behold, there is a rafter in thine own eye? Hypocrite! draw forth first the rafter from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see to draw forth the rod from thy brother's eye.
6. Leave them: they are blind leaders of the blind; but if a blind man shall lead a blind man, both shall fall into the ditch.
7. Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it is opened.
8. But seek first the kingdom of Aloha and his righteousness, and all these shall be added unto you.
9. Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the earth, a place where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust corrupt, and where thieves do not dig through and steal. For where your treasure is, there also your hearts are.
10. ENTER in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the way, that leads to destruction; and they are many who go therein. How small is the gate, and narrow the way, that leads unto salvation; and they are few who find it!
11. No man can serve two lords; for the one he will hate, and the other he will love, or the one he will honor, and the other he will neglect: you cannot serve Aloha and riches.
12. The harvest is great, and the laborers few. Ask, therefore, from the Lord of the harvest, that he would thrust forth laborers into his harvest.
13. And as you go, proclaim and say that the kingdom of heaven hath drawn near.
14. And when you enter into the house, invoke peace for the house; and if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace upon yourselves shall revert.
15. LO, I send you forth as sheep among wolves...
16. You shall not fear, therefore, from them; for there is nothing covered which shall not be revealed, nor secret which shall not be known.
17. Whosoever will find his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.
18. But he who is great among you, let him be your servitor. For whosoever will exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever will abase himself shall be exalted.
19. If there were in you faith as a grain of mustard, you should say to this mountain, Pass hence, and it would pass away.
20. For unto him who hath shall be given, and it shall be added to him; but he who hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken from him.
21. Jeshu answered him, Thou shalt not kill, neither commit adultery, nor steal, neither shalt thou witness false testimony; and honor thy father and thy mother, and love thy neighbor as thyself.
22. If thou wilt become perfect, go, sell thy possession and give to the poor, and there shall be for thee a treasure in heaven: and come after me.
23. Again I say to you, that it is easier for a camel to enter through the aperture of a needle, than the rich to enter into the kingdom of Aloha.
24. And every man who hath relinquished houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, on account of my name, shall receive a hundred- fold, and shall inherit the life of eternity, Many however are first who shall be last, and the last first.