Let's concentrate on personal development!

Written by A.M. Sall


Let's concentrate on personal development!

A.M.Sall http://www.health-beauty-wellness.com

These days, watching TV, listening torepparttar radio, reading newspapers or internet news is real torture: nothing but sickening scenes, a horrible litany of killings, bombings, murder, rape...

It's no use dwelling onrepparttar 123114 "reasons" or justification put forward by those who perpetrate such deeds.

However, one thing is obvious: atrepparttar 123115 root of all conflicts, there is manipulation by so-called "leaders" and here is an undeniable fact for you:

If every human being just decided to ignore these so-called leaders and concentrate on personal development, that would berepparttar 123116 end of all conflicts between people and groups of people.

So, I say to you:

- Concentrate on your personal development.

- Never allow yourself to be manipulated by politicians, religious leaders, or any type of leaders. More often than not, such people are hardly able to lead themselves.

- God is everyone's God. If you believe in God, you can lead yourself to Him (or Her, for that matter). You certainly don't need anybody for that. - As much as possible, look at human beings for what they are i.e. as individuals, not as members of a group, class, race, religion, country, culture, color, race, gender etc. - Go straight forrepparttar 123117 "humanity in all human beings"

Of course, we are all more or less influenced byrepparttar 123118 society we were born into,repparttar 123119 culture we grew up in,repparttar 123120 language we speak. But deep inside, we all have something in common.

Citizens of the Land of Opportunity [for JULY 4th!]

Written by Rebecca Fine


"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, andrepparttar pursuit of happiness."  

--The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

In a crowded, airless room inrepparttar 123113 city of Philadelphia 228 years ago this week, a group of men solemnly stepped forward, one by one, and affixed their names to a single sheet of paper -- each man knowing that if they faltered in their collective vision, purpose, commitment, or action, he had just signed his own death warrant. Yet before they were done, a total of 56 men had signed.  

They knew what they wanted: They had a dream, a vision, a goal.  

They knew why they wanted it: They had a purpose.

They knewrepparttar 123114 price and were willing to pay it: They were committed.  

They had a plan: They took action.

And they set in motion a never before imagined and still imperfect and incomplete chain of events that continues to this day towardrepparttar 123115 ever-expanding vision of freedom and justice for all.  

They triumphed, and yet their ultimate success remains to be realized. Its completion is a legacy handed down throughrepparttar 123116 generations, to us and through us, and on to those who follow.  

This week as we celebrate their vision, purpose, commitment, and action (and as we also honorrepparttar 123117 succeeding generations who have keptrepparttar 123118 faith and improved onrepparttar 123119 dream), consider that it is largely because of their vision, purpose, commitment, and action that you are today a citizen ofrepparttar 123120 Land of Opportunity.  

You and I arerepparttar 123121 recipients of many precious gifts bought by others. Whatever our situations and backgrounds, we enjoy a freedom still only dreamed of in many parts ofrepparttar 123122 world.

But inrepparttar 123123 midst ofrepparttar 123124 familiar words ofrepparttar 123125 Declaration of Independence, there's another phrase that goes mostly unnoticed. Thomas Jefferson wrote:  

"[A]ll experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishingrepparttar 123126 forms to which they are accustomed."  

It's another way of saying that, sadly, most people simply aren't motivated enough to do anything to changerepparttar 123127 status quo -- even if it's awful, even if they despise it, even if it's slowly killing them. It's another way of sayingrepparttar 123128 "comfort zone" rules.  

Because freedom and opportunity are our day-to-day reality, we often take them for granted in a way that people in many parts ofrepparttar 123129 world find astounding, even unthinkable. We keep ourselves ignorant ofrepparttar 123130 true value and meaning of these gifts. And we too often waste them by not clearly seeing how precious they are and ACTING upon that -- by not reaching out and taking hold ofrepparttar 123131 opportunity that surrounds us and is part ofrepparttar 123132 very air we breathe. The opportunity for life itself -- more life, better life, life under no one's thumb.  

As citizens ofrepparttar 123133 Land of Opportunity, though, we have a sacred responsibility NOT to waste what's been given to us, bought withrepparttar 123134 blood and sweat of those who went before and longed for by millions aroundrepparttar 123135 world. We have a responsibility to lay hold of that limitless opportunity, burst out of our stifling "comfort zones," and makerepparttar 123136 most of our freedom -- to be, do, and have all we need for all repparttar 123137 life we are capable of living.  

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