...revealed: "You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." - Brian Tracy
Vesna recommended the DVD, I couldn't find it, but I got the book - ta Yogic. Like she said, it's just your usual positive, hippie stuff. Just the type of BS I like.
Couple more videos that are worth while are: one endorsing it, and funny one against it. Of course, it was on Oprah as well, twice.
The hole story revolves around the law of attraction, and can be summarised by the old saying of be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. So this is hardly anything new. According to this video, these guys have been teaching it for a long while (forum). Tony Robins has been playing the same (MUST-SEE) tune as well. I came across it, for the first time, in the book, originally published in 1930's, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And anyone with any familiarity with any of the religions, would probably say something along the lines of 'tell me something I don't know'.
Through the years, I became big on the positive psychology. Here are the few quotes that I picked up from sources other the 'the secret', and are all in support of it. It would be nice if you can add some more info that is either in support, or even better, against it. In summary, they say that:
Vesna recommended the DVD, I couldn't find it, but I got the book - ta Yogic. Like she said, it's just your usual positive, hippie stuff. Just the type of BS I like.
Couple more videos that are worth while are: one endorsing it, and funny one against it. Of course, it was on Oprah as well, twice.
The hole story revolves around the law of attraction, and can be summarised by the old saying of be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. So this is hardly anything new. According to this video, these guys have been teaching it for a long while (forum). Tony Robins has been playing the same (MUST-SEE) tune as well. I came across it, for the first time, in the book, originally published in 1930's, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And anyone with any familiarity with any of the religions, would probably say something along the lines of 'tell me something I don't know'.
Through the years, I became big on the positive psychology. Here are the few quotes that I picked up from sources other the 'the secret', and are all in support of it. It would be nice if you can add some more info that is either in support, or even better, against it. In summary, they say that:
Whatever you think, that's who you are and how it is.
"Thoughts are energy, and you can make or break your world by thinking." - Susan Taylor
"The belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"The ancestor of every action is a thought. ... A man is what he thinks about all day long. ... To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Of the many earnest, and how earnest, people we may observe reading, attending lectures, studying and practicing disciplines, devoting their energies to the attainment of a liberation which is by definition unattainable, how many are not striving via the ego-concept which is itself the only barrier between what they think they are and that which they wish to become but always have been and always will be?" - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?" George Orwell
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
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UPDATED, 24th Nov 08: list of quotes from The Secret.
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