Insights from Books
Courage by Gus Lee
- Courage is principled conduct under pressure.
- Face reality with courage.
- Connect authentically with those around you.
- Be oriented toward the truth.
- Work in a way that get results and finishes well.
- Be transcendent - A leader must realize that there are things bigger than self.
- People want to be lead by a person not a corporate apparatchik.
- Embrace, engage, and deal with the negative, instead of hoping it will go away.
The Invitation by Oriah Dreamer
- The invitation is a declarational intent. A map into the longing of the soul.
- The desire to live passionately to settle for nothing less than what is real.
- I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love of your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
- I want to know if you can be with joy and let the ecstasy fill you without cautioning us to be careful, realistic or remember the limitation of being human.
- It does not matter what you do for a living, I want to know if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.
A Still, Small Voice by Echo Bodine
- Road to God is not an easy one.
- It is easier to do what everyone else is doing, but that doesn't encourage individuality but promotes deadening conformity that keeps us farther from God .
- Your birthright is to become the best you can be, you can accomplish this by listening to the guidance of the voice within you.
- Set aside our religious training and find out for ourselves the truth about our creator.
- When the inner voice speaks it is always calm and without emotion
- Shift from listening to your logical mind to the quieter certain voice within your gut.
- God whispers quietly, he doesn't shout.
- Each morning ask God if there is anything you need to know or anything He wants you to do today.
- You can distinguish God's will from our own, God's will does not go away.
King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
- A warrior avoids self-consciousness. If we think too much it leads to doubt and inaction. A warrior is trained to make split-second decisions and act decisively
- A warrior is concerned with skills, power, accuracy, and mastery over the technology of his trade
- A warrior is willing to suffer to achieve what he wants.
- A warrior lives not to gratify personal needs or physical appetites, but to hone himself into an efficient spiritual machine trained to service a transpersonal goal.
Think Yourself Rich by Joseph Murphy
- You are born to succeed and triumph in life.
- Today is God's day. I choose harmony, success, prosperity, abundance and security.
- Infinite intelligence reveals to me better ways to be of greater service.
- I am divinely guided. All my undertakings will result in success.
- Money is God's idea circulating in my life. There is always surplus.
- I am a child of God. I am different and God wants to do something great through me.
- What am I going to choose today from the treasure house of infinity.