{"id":163,"date":"2011-02-08T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/haveamagnificentday\/2011\/02\/guidelines-to-enlightenment-success.html"},"modified":"2011-02-08T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T00:00:01","slug":"guidelines-to-enlightenment-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2011\/02\/guidelines-to-enlightenment-success.html","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines to Enlightenment &amp; Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><font size=\"3\">From&nbsp;the Teachings of&nbsp;Roy Eugene Davis:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><font size=\"3\">The thoughts you habitually think, your mental attitudes and emotional states, reactions to events, personal relationships and actions are chosen by you.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>How you think and behave determines your existing circumstances and those you will experience in the near and distant future.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>If you want any aspect of your life to be improved, you have only to exercise your freedom of choice and decisively act in accord with your choices.<\/p>\n<p>Choose to be emotionally mature.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Assume responsibility for your thoughts, actions and circumstances.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Refuse to allow mental confusion, emotional unrest or psychological conflicts to dominate your awareness.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Do not let debilitating habits dissipate your vital forces, weaken your health, diminish your financial (or other) resources, mar worthwhile relationships or interfere with the efficient accomplishments of your meaningful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Be optimistic, cheerful and calmly energetic.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Optimistic people are always healthier, happier, more successful and live longer than people who are pessimistic.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Cultivate only wholesome, life-enhancing thoughts, feelings, behaviors and relationships.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Be aware of your true nature in relationship to the Infinite.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Nurture awareness of the presence of God within and around you.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Assume and express the characteristics and qualities you want to have.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><font size=\"3\"><\/p>\n<p><b><span><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Reflect that some day you will have to leave this world, so make the acquaintance of God now.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It is only because of delusion that you perceive yourself as a physical body.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Meditate unceasingly to realize your real, divine nature.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span><span><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/b><b><span>Lahiri Mahasaya<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>blessings,<br \/>\ud83d\ude42 Lee<br \/><i>The Mega Coach<\/i><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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