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Power of Positive Dreaming!!

2008-04-12T18:58:00.001-07:00

"Only when you dream, you can do it. "
Dirubhai Ambani.

Dreams possess power. ‘It inspires man like anything. It stretches out one’s internal self-image and maximize one’s performance. It transcends his limitations and enables him to reach out to the so-called ‘impossibles’. It expands his personality to the boundaries of success so that he can enjoy it peacefully.’ He conquered the Everest, flown through the sky or landed in moon only because he dreamt of it.

Man could conquer Everest only because he constantly dreamt of it.

Edmund Hilary as a young man always looked at the picture of Everest and said. “ Everest, You can not grow further, but I will grow beyond your magnificent weights and will conquer you one day”. He always dreamt of it and he realized it.

Man could fly into the skies only because the two sons of a Bishop dreamt of it.

In “ A Saviour of Seasons’, William Barker relates a story of a bishop from the East Coast (of America) who many years ago paid a visit to a small, Midwestern religious college. He stayed at the home of the college president. After dinner the bishop declared that the millennium could not be far off, because just about everything about nature had been discovered and all inventions conceived.

The young college president politely disagreed. When the angered bishop challenged the president to name just one such invention, the president replied he was certain that within fifty years men would be able to fly.“ Nonsense” sputtered the outraged bishop. “ Only angels are intended to fly.”

The bishop’s name was Wright, and he had two boys at home who would prove to have greater vision them their father. Their names were Orville and Wilbus. The father and his sons both lived under the same sky, but they did not all have the same horizon. People who have dreams are capable of changing the world into unimaginable realms.

Man could land on the moon only because a leader inspired the whole nation to dream of it.

On May 25, 1961, U.S President John F. Kennedy delivered an address to a joint session of the U. S congress. He fitted it “ urgent National Needs” and in it he made a breathtaking announcement: the United States would put a man on the noon and return him safely before the decade was out.

It was both a race to beat an opponent and a challenge to achieve an impossible dream. When kenney made this announcement, there were many in the space program who didn’t believe it was even possible. Yet in nine years later, the dream became a reality.

Dreams possess immense power. The more important thing this: our personal dream of mission is influential in shaping the future of the world. We can touch the life of others with the dreams of our personal dreams. This is the communitarian dimension of dreaming positive.

Martin Luther King proclaimed, “ I have a dream …” His dream was translated into powerful flow of hope and became the freedom for black community.

Mahatma Gandhi had a dream of Self-reliant India. He traveled along the breadth and width of the country and created a personal dream about India. Millions shared his dream and it became freedom of India.

While traveling in a train, a poor woman had a dream- to serve the sick and to protect the abandoned children of Kolkotha. She became mother Teresa and a multitude of destitute enjoyed her care.

The world’s most successful school drop out had a dream- to make computer a household necessity of the modern living. He became the richest man on earth- Bill Gates and a virtual global knowledge community emerged as a result.

Such is the power of positive dreams. That is why Jesus initiated his mission with a great positive dream – the Kingdom of God. Besides being positive, Jesus' dream was also BIG.

JESUS’ POSITIVELY CREATED MENTAL PICTURES

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Also Jesus could create a positive mental picture about the future- the kingdom of God. It was a new paradigm. It enabled him to see the whole creation in a new light and to strive for the attainment of his ideals. He could retain this positive mental picture through one his life. It was the sole reason that moved Jesus forward into the progressive realization of his beautiful dreams. His dreams created a great desire within him to realize his mission as it was said in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

You are what your deep driving desire is
As your desire is, so is your will
As your will is, so is your deed
As your deed is, so is your destiny (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV. 4.5)

JESUS’ CONSCIOUSLY CREATED DREAMS

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This was the kind of dreams that Jesus fostered in his life. He was consciously thinking about himself, his Father and the world around him. His conscious reflection enabled him to discover himself as the Son of God at the age of twelve. So he replied his parents,“ Why more you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2:49)

The Dreams Jesus Dreamt

2008-04-12T18:54:00.000-07:00

"We are such stuff as our dreams are made of"
Shakespeare.

The dreams, which produce great results in human life, are not those unconscious acts, which come to us as a matter of chance. Rather, they are the decisions or choices we make in the depth of our existence. They are the conscious acts of thinking big about new paradigms and about the future, which in turn becomes the part of one’s own conscious and subconscious levels of mind.

It is the conscious act of creating in one’s mind of the experiences one desire in the future as if it were there and now. According to David Copperfield, “ dreams aren’t a matter of chance but a matter of choice. When I dream I am refreshing my future.”

These explanations suggest two fundamental aspects of the act of dreaming.
1. Dreams are conscious acts
2. Dreams create a mental picture of the future.

Jesus Dreamt

2008-02-26T20:16:00.000-08:00

JESUS DREAMT

Those who believe and is baptized will be saved.
Jesus (Mark 16: 16a)

Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt.

Jesus had dreams. He had great dreams about himself, his Father and the world around his and called it as the kingdom of God. His dreams were positive and big enough to inspire himself and others. The power of his dreams helped him to climb even up to the Calvary passionately. He believed in the beauty of those dreams. So he said: Those who believe and baptized will be saved. (Mk 16:16a)

Call to baptism is an invitation to participate in the great dreams of Jesus. It is a call to have dreams in one’s life. One who is baptized is the one who shares the great dream of Jesus- the kingdom of God. Jesus wanted his followers to dream along with him. This is because; he was very much convinced about the power of positive dreams. Dreams always precede reality. Yesterdays’ dreams are today’s reality and today’s dreams will be the future of humanity.

The dreams Jesus intended here are not what one experience in sleep or in daydreaming. They are of different stuff.

Jesus, the Positive Guru

2008-02-26T20:12:00.000-08:00

Positive attitude of Jesus

When we see a glass with water up to its half level we can perceive it into two ways: ‘a half empty glass’ or ‘ a half filled glass’. A man with the positive attitude perceives it as half filled glass. Jesus always had a positive attitude. So he watched a widow putting two copper coins into the treasury and recognized it as the greatest of all contributions. (Luke. 21:1-4)

Positive vision of Jesus

Jesus had a positive vision for him God appeared as a compassionate and forgiving father who can embrace a prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24) or could leave his 99 sheep for the sake of a lost one (Luke 15: 1-10). Being the children of same, one, compassionate god he realized the bond of brotherhood between all human beings in a very special way.

Positive action of Jesus

He opted only positive actions. He not only preached to love enemies (Matthew 5:43) and to show the next cheek to those who strike on one but also practiced it in his life by forgiving his enemies on the cross and praying for them. (Luke 23:4)

This is the good news Jesus suggested to his disciples: positive attitude, positive vision and positive action. And he commissioned: “Go into all the world and proclaim Good news to the whole creation.” (Mark 16:5)

Blue Print of Success (in the words of Jesus!)

2007-08-17T22:52:00.000-07:00

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Carefully read these words of Jesus:

He said to them: “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast our demons; they will speak new languages; they will pick up snakes in their hands and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick; and they will recover.
(Mark 16: 15-18)

This passage is interpreted in many ways, especially, in relation to the need of evangelization and with respect to the mode of evangelization. If we can consider Jesus as a triumphant victor at the scene of ascension, we can also interpret this passage in relation to his personal success. If we are willing to see it in the new light of positive thinking, we will be able to find the secrets of Jesus’ personal success through this important commission. Jesus’ words can be understood and interpreted like this:

This is the good news: You can be saved or can win in your personal life, if you are ready to dream and believe. The signs or characteristics of those winners will be the following:

They will have the positive attitude. They will cast out the demons, that is, they will cast away all negative attitudes. They will start to speak a new language of positive thinking.

They will have the positive vision. They will pick up risks and challenges in their lives, which are as dangerous as snakes in appearance. Even if they fail for a few times, they will successfully come out of it, for none of the dangerous drinks can hurt them.

They will choose the positive actions that they will lay their hands on the sick so that the fruits of their success shall go into the hands of the poor and the needy in the society. It is done through selfless service and charity.

This is the simple plan of Jesus for those aspire for great successes in their lives.

Positive Attitude
Positive vision
Positive action

For all these three notions, there is one thing in common. They all are positive. This ‘positiveness’ is the fundamental orientation of Jesus. It is the positive approach of Jesus towards his life.

Never Give Up!

2007-07-24T16:37:00.001-07:00

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Napoleon lost one third of battles he fought. Thomas Alva Edison failed ten thousand times before he found out an element, which produced light from the electricity. Michael Jordan failed to get into the university Basketball team, when he was college student.

But all of them are considered to be great achievers.

Success Can be Repeated

2007-07-22T05:35:00.000-07:00

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Find out the basic principles of success and start applying them in our lives; we can hit at success. The only thing: we should find out those winning principles and should be able to consciously apply them in our lives.

To get the basic principles of success we have to look at the lives of those successful persons, whose victories still influence the human kind and surpass the ages. ‘Success leaves clues, that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results.’ We can win in their way, once we could copy them into our lives. If we can understand their principles and can apply them in our personal lives, we can repeat their successes in a phenomenal way. “The movers and shakers of the world are of often professional modelers, people who have mastered the art of learning everything they can by following other people’s experience rather than their own.”

The conclusion: Success can be repeated.

Success - "what does it mean to me!"

2007-06-24T21:50:00.000-07:00

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We cannot define success categorically in unequivocal terms. This is because its implications are very wide and vivid. We can only have observations, reflections and opinions about success i.e., how people viewed success, analyze it and gave an expression to their understanding. But attentively going through these observations we will be able to create an awareness about ‘what does it mean to me’ and how to create an understanding about success in our minds.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.
Earl Nightingale

To me success is an ongoing process of striving to become more. The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.
Anthony Robbins

Success may not be so much a destination as a journey, not merely static but dynamic and ongoing. To an extent success (or failure) is within us. It’s what we do with what happen to us.
Wesley Harris

Success is a self-discipline. It can be accessed, absorbed and acted upon. Nigel Linacre

A successful person is any person who has courage and high purpose. He is the person who puts ideas and dreams to work. He is the person who refuses to believe that there is anything but success ahead and has systematically released himself from the anchors that bind him to mediocrity. He is the person who refuses to channel himself as a conformist and reaches out for his goals one by one.
J.C. Cerney

Let my country awake...

2007-06-22T19:07:00.000-07:00

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Gitanjali XXXV

Do u wanna be successful?

2007-06-22T19:05:00.000-07:00

Do you want to become a failure in your life?

Whenever, I asked this question either to students, youth or adults, their answer was unanimous. It was an emphatic ‘no’. People wanted to succeed in their life. They wanted to win.

Leading a successful life is the birthright of a person. Whoever comes to this world with a human body and soul has a right to win. Other wise God would not have allowed him/her to be born, for God is just. Every human being is capable of going beyond the daily grind and experiencing the bliss of heavenly support and motion.

Moreover, it is not only the right of a few; rather it is the indisputable right of all human beings. All are destined to become great achievers in their lives. This is the will of God and wish of God. The fact is this: there is possibility for each one to win, for God has created infinite ways of success. But the ways and modes of winning may vary from person to person. Winning an Olympic medal may be the success of an athlete, earning a few billions may be the success of a businessperson, having reputation and fame may be the success of a public person, helping the poor and the needy in an effective way may be the success of a social worker, leading a peaceful and effective marriage life will the success of a wife or a husband, scoring higher grades and marks will be the success of creative students or doing pastoral activities in an effective manner will be the success of a pastor. Whatever be the mode of winning, people are destined to lead a successful life in their own life situations.

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2007-06-19T21:03:00.000-07:00

Be positive.. It's my philosopy of life..