Have You The Urge Too?
Wonderful Geoff Bridgford music video.
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March 28, 2013Happiness
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March 24, 2013Falling in Love
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March 22, 2013Humanizing the Workplace
If you work for an organization that needs to become a more benevolent and humane workplace, I invite you to respond to my new Humanizing the Workplace poll.
You'll need about five minutes.
I'll be posting the results of the poll here in a few weeks, but if you'd like me to email the results to you directly, just note your email address in the comments box below or send a message to info@ideachampions.com
You can read more about this topic in my latest Huffington Post article.
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March 20, 2013Give Everything You Have
This is the first in a series of collaborations with readers of this blog. The painting is by Annie Lawrason. The words are excerpted from Full Moon at Sunrise. This image will appear in the soon-to-be completed slide show version of the book. If you are an artist, photographer, or illustrator and want to contribute one or more of your creations for inclusion in the slide show (to be sold on the WOPG.org eStore), let me know.
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Feel the Zero
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March 19, 2013When Kindness Goes Viral
Whatever path you walk, whatever your favorite name for God, if it doesn't come down to this, it don't mean squat.
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March 18, 2013Quartet
Wonderful movie! Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtney, Pauline Collins, and Michael Gambon. If you are getting older... will get older... retired... will retire ... love opera, humor, comebacks, and community, this one's for you.
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
I am in the process of creating a slide show version of my new book of poetry, soon for sale on the WOPG eStore, and I am looking for copyright-free images to use.
If you are a photographer, artist, or illustrator and want to submit some of your work for publication, contact me via email (mitch@ideachampions.com). Thanks.
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March 15, 2013Always Remembering You
Exquisite song. Daya vocals, John Adorney music. Song translated from Hindi by Charananand. From Fire in the Flint.
Thanks to Billy "Arctic Ice" Salmansohn for the heads up.
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March 12, 2013A Passionate Sense of Potential
Photo: Mimi Pouget Ditkoff
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March 11, 2013There Is Another Door
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March 10, 2013Paper Bird
Gotta love Kim O'Leary!
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March 08, 2013But I Already Know This!
Two and a half years ago, I emailed a friend of mine who saw Prem Rawat for the first time in my home town of Woodstock, NY.
Knowing she had thoroughly enjoyed the evening and had started to find out more by watching The Keys a few days later, I was curious to know if she had any questions.
She didn't. But she did have an interesting observation about herself. As she watched The Keys, she explained, a recurring thought kept running through her mind.
"But I already know this."
I've heard the same thing from many people over the years -- especially friends of mine who are just starting to hear about Prem Rawat's message.
This time, maybe because he had just come to my hometown, it gave me extra pause. Why, I wondered, was it so common for people to respond to his message with the potentially dismissive "But I already know this" comment?
Could it be they weren't quite open? Not sufficiently humble? Too full of concepts? Well, that describes all people -- Prem Rawat's students, as well.
The real reason is simpler.
The real reason why so many people respond to his message with "I already know that" is because they do. Indeed, this is one of the recurring themes at the core of his message. If it seems familiar to you, that's because it is.
This is where things really get interesting. In fact, if there is a place where the "path" begins, this is it.
A good teacher does not invent anything new. He (or she) does not recycle old truths. A good teacher turns theory into practice. Makes the potential kinetic. Activates the process where seeking comes to an end and finding begins.
For most of us, the essence of who we are has long been forgotten -- like we've all gotten a bad case of amnesia. We know the time, but not the timeless. We know our phone number, but not our heart. We know where we want to be tomorrow, but not where we are today.
Big difference.
Bottom line, Prem Rawat is waking people up to the most ancient thing within them -- the essence of what makes life worth living. And not only that. He's also providing the tools and inspiration to maintain steady contact with this glorious place of being. How cool is that?
The second reason why some people respond to his message with the "I already know this" mantra is because it's very likely they've heard his message before.
Prem Rawat is not the only one talking this talk. What he's saying has been preached, written about, sung, danced, sculpted, painted, whispered, dreamed, and yodeled since the beginning of time.
Strip away the jargon of any path and you'll find his message at the core: What you are looking for is within you!
What, then, is the value of Prem Rawat when his message is as old as the hills -- and the time before hills existed?
Simply this: He helps people make it real. He helps them apply it in daily life.
He has an extraordinary gift for helping people close the gap between theory and practice -- helping people understand, in their bones, that this is it -- that the promised land is beneath our very feet right now, if only we would keep our promise to ourselves.
He's a wake-up call -- not with a bugle, but a breath.
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March 04, 2013It's Time to Totally Go For It!
"This is the true
joy in life,
the being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself
as a mighty one;
the being thoroughly
worn out
before you are
thrown on the scrap heap;
the being a force of Nature
instead of a
feverish selfish little clod
of ailments and grievances
complaining
that the world will not
devote itself
to making you happy."
- George Bernard Shaw
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March 03, 2013What Is Real
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March 01, 2013All is Well!
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