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alexandra says

Hi,

You can fol­low Burt on Twit­ter here.

http://twitter.com/Burt_Goldman

Cheers,

Alexan­dra

discount amazon says

inter­est­ing post. I would love to fol­low you on twitter.

Terry "The Believer" says

“Knowl­edge is an intel­lec­tual process that comes from acquir­ing infor­ma­tion
Know­ing is a spiritual/emotional process that comes from true expe­ri­ence” (see above) Burt’s words.

BOTH NEED TO BE APPLIED not just con­cep­tu­al­ized. Many say, “Knowl­edge is power”. NO, it’s APPLIED knowl­edge and APPLIED knowing.

This is why I took your Silva course in the early 80’s and from the “knowl­edge” gained from that knew that the MIND BOX would help me con­tinue in the right direc­tion when I came upon “THE AMERICAN MONK”! I’d been there with you. Our paths cross again.

“Know­ing from the deep­est depths of your spir­i­tual and emo­tional self, that you have devel­oped per­fectly pos­i­tive belief sys­tems in every aspect of your life” (see above) is my direc­tion at this time. Ques­tion Burt; Do we ever stop evolv­ing? I believe I know the answer. What’s yours?

Berkeley says

I can iden­tify with this tenac­ity of pur­pose. Fur­ther­more, I met this fos­ter youth, who had gone through some 13 fos­ter homes. And with lit­tle time left for high school, she called on me to be her men­tor. After grad­u­at­ing from High School; I drove her to Col­lege for enroll­ment. She later became a tutor, grad­u­ated with hon­ors from this 2-year col­lege! Was accepted by some four first class 4-year col­leges. She went on to UC Berke­ley; Grad­u­ated Phi Beta Kappa!
Now accepted at sev­eral Law Schools, from which she’ll choose!
There’s noth­ing like the undaunt­ing Spirit of Intesti­nal For­ti­tude!
She had a Vision; Endorsed the four-Ps of: Pur­pose; Pic­ture; Plan; Par­tic­i­pa­tion; A life­long Com­pass for Many!
Hur­rah! for the undaunted Spirit!

Sandra says

If she was able to get through high school in 2 years, then she must of had a fair amount of aca­d­e­mic intel­li­gence to begin with. I am not the sharpest tack in the box. I was always put in the slow group’s in school and that’s because I have a hard time under­stand­ing. My com­pre­hen­sion lev­els are very low, and I have prob­lems with remem­ber­ing what I have learned. When I go to recall it…it’s just not there, it’s like I never learned it in the first place. I would give any­thing to be smart, but it doesn’t mat­ter how much I study my brain just won’t hold on to it. What do you do in a case like that? It’s hard to live up to your poten­tial when your brain refuses to work.
My IQ is nil, and my self con­fi­dence is nil, and right now my future look’s to be pretty nil as well. I’m 59 and have been try­ing all of my life to make some­thing out of my self. I want to know what is wrong with my brain that it won’t work like other people’s. I’m so frustrated.

Blue Skies,
Sandy

T. Watanabe says

I also some­times con­sider a thought which is close to the com­ment of IIana.
How­ever, I think that con­scious mod­el­ing is origin-like and it is uncanny.
That is, isn’t there any sub­jec­tive and indi­vid­ual side? When I am caught by “tedium”, and when los­ing “gen­tle­ness” fur­ther, the fol­low­ing “thoughts” appears.
“Isn’t it deceived well?”

“The hope is not taken into con­sid­er­a­tion from the start.”

And com­ing to the next are var­i­ous guesses and delusion.

If it comes so far, energy will be extracted by gen­er­al­i­ties, such as “exhaus­tion of resources”, “sup­ply rule”, and “a sur­vival fight”, and my heart will sep­a­rate from the direc­tion of selec­tion of the first attitude.

I had the fol­low­ing view­point.
“It col­lapses” is the same in “Its foot­ing is regained.“
That is, it is that called the polar­ity of the dif­fer­ence in the grade of the same “attitude.”

cynthia says

You know I have to agree with the writer Sherri on some things not all–but the thing I agree with her is–I was home­less for 4 years and I am still going through a process. I raised my chil­dren by myself and I worked . I also attended a short stint in col­lege. To make a long story short I went through a lot so I could see why Sherri is upset. Unlike some other home­less peo­ple I had an upper hand though I’ve always thought dif­fer­ently now that my chil­dren are grown I have come to real­ize that I was doing a lot of what Burt Gold­man shares for a num­ber of years. I real­ize I can go so much fur­ther as result now so I do think that it’s do-able. So many peo­ple work against the tide if they would think dif­fer­ntly and not fight with the tide but rather flow it will be so much easier.

Cecilia says

Thank God Liz is fine. She already win.

Titomo says

Will? Mind is con­scious and sub­con­scious. What is the sub­con­scious charge? If the energy of mind is charged with some­thing, can one expect the oppo­site? Like Titanic going straight on the way, the power of going may be stronger as that of will. In such a case, the trans­for­ma­tion of the sub­con­scious charge of mind may be impor­tant to achieve goals. When one says power of will he may be jok­ing. The trans­for­ma­tion of sub­con­scious energy may be so impor­tant as to right one’s path by will. One thou­sand lives to you good Mr. Gold­man. Humankind need you.

sherry says

PS the rea­son it is mate­ri­al­ism based is that the upper clasS never con­sid­ers a lack of rent money a fac­tor, only ATTITUDE. The rea­son they never con­sider lack of money a fac­tor is because it is not a real­ity in their uni­verse. So it doesn’t even cross their mind. They are see­ing the world only through their own expe­ri­ence, there­fore have a blind slant. They give them­selves credit for every­thing they ever accom­plished, whereas the truth shows most every­one who makes it has a lot of help from family,some agency, some peo­ple who care about them, fate,etc. Even Parama­hansa had help … his FATHER paid for his pas­sage to the US in 1920. Oth­er­wise we might not even know his name. Mother Teresa said LACK OF LOVE is the cause of home­less­ness. THANK GOD SHE TOLD THE TRUTH.

sherry says

I have watched this twice and there is not one word about where she lived after that first night on the sub­way. Some fos­ter par­ent or rel­a­tive or some­one helped her have a place to live, I think we can sup­pose. You hon­estly think she could have fin­ished high school with­out a place to live? Hon­estly I am going to stop this sub­scrip­tion. I have a degree with a B aver­age and since I had to go on social secu­rity for back prob­lems I also have been home­less sim­ply because there is no rel­a­tive or any­one to help me. I am a vet too and have been home­less for 5 years. I have lost every­thing except the will to live. This kind of upper class belief that any­one can do any­thing if they just put their mind to it only goes so far. If your whole fam­ily turns their back on you and their is no place you can afford to rent, it goes on inde­fi­nately. I am so sick of peo­ple think­ing home­less peo­ple could be ok if they would just get it together. You have no idea what it is like. I had to over­come many obsta­cles to fin­ish col­lege over 14 years part time while even being a sin­gle mom. Don’t tell me that I don’t have enough per­sis­tance. I really hate this model that peo­ple can just pull them­selves up by the boot­straps. That allows the upper class to stop car­ing. To blame the vic­tim. And NO I don’t have a drug or alco­hol prob­lem. I was an award win­ning writer in col­lege. RENT COSTS MONEY and THAT IS ALL. I can’t wait to leave this coun­try and live some­where else. This is noth­ing but MATERIALISM based, say­ing she took care of it her­self. NOTHING about WHERE she lived while fin­ish­ing high school. NOTHING. SOMEONE HELPED HER.

Nicole says

Bravo Liz!

ANDRE says

William ;I think most peo­ple through the emo­tion of want­ing con­cen­trate their energy more on why they want and so there’s a leak­age of power right from the outset.

To man­i­fest you have to aim all energy into know­ing what you want and why already; so that you can live the outcome.This is done through visu­al­iz­ing your end result exactly how you wish it to be,that plugs all those ear­lier holes up.
How just occurs nat­u­rally. your job done cor­rectly will erase any doubt once the path is taken…that is faith and also builds the fin­ish.
In truth their is no time like the present. Your faith at the end has to be as it is in the start so that thetie span is linked in one moment by you.

If things are dif­fi­cult I’d say your get­ting caught up in the ways and hows and haven’t quite evolved your ener­gies past them yet.

The right road, feels right.

Be very exact in what you visu­al­ize as your end result, The uni­verse doesnt have a sense of humour and where gaps are left, these can be filled with your other ener­gies (that can arise from your deep­est fears).

Con­tin­u­ally give thanks for all you have been lead through and all you have and also for any­thing you want before that some­thing arrives and guess what? (Its com­ming any­way) .

liz says

Burt,

What is the best affir­ma­tion for me to do for doing $120,000 sales turnover per month, every month. What should I chant to myself? Can you pls reply to my email ASAP.

Thks, Liz ps Your tips are great, feels good when I do the tap­ping, but so far noth­ing hap­pens yet.

William says

Inter­est­ing…

I mean, it was pretty amaz­ing the suc­cess Liz had in all these areas of life. Heck it was almost (if not) per­fect timing!

All though, I have been through that (not being home­less but basi­cally liv­ing in poverty) and I still don’t know the difference.

Knowl­edge changes always. Some times (usu­ally) mil­lions of sys­tems can accom­plish the same exact goal. There are more then 2 ways to skin a cat like the peo­ple in Texas say.

But there is still an amaz­ing amount of vari­a­tion between how you per­ma­nently learn a fact or a piece of knowledge.

Like, one, when there is a fact.

Say, you can learn eat­ing every day, 3 times a day can be a very suc­cess­ful way to live.

Many peo­ple do it, heck if you do it right your health can be fan­tas­tic. But then you might learn eat­ing 5 times a day in small meals can be a great way to live also. Same with the other way it’s fan­tas­tic if you do it right! Then on an other level, the monks in China and many peo­ple eat spe­cific foods and it’s very great. Some eat like very lit­tle and are still very healthy.

There are lit­er­ally mil­lions of ways to eat.

There are lit­er­ally mil­lions of ways to do anything!

So how do you just adopt a sin­gle con­cept? I mean, go through mil­lions of try’s? Seri­ously isn’t know­ing, real­iz­ing the true and pos­i­tive way that works the best with your self?

So, if you can learn a sin­gle con­cept, KNOW a sin­gle con­cept beyond just knowl­edge… There is a deeper and more dif­fi­cult problem.

How do you do that with every­thing, seri­ously go through mil­lions of processes just to find the right one?

That I am sure is the root cause that pre­vents many from really knowing.

So, when you find a way to flow with know­ing (to make the mil­lion choice march as I call it) FAST, let me know!

Oth­er­wise it will just be a ton of knowl­edge until otherwise.

Great post though, nice food for thought.

marios says

Never too late .the chances are there .Its up to you to seek what you desire to be or want .deter­mi­na­tion ‚perserviarence action.….marios

Neco says

Anthony Rob­bins also says ” it you are going to learn any­thing, learn from the best“
Every­one of us has a “yes I can” It is some­times deep within, but it is there.
The mind is a pow­er­ful tool! When you are walk­ing across a 20 foot bed of hot coals, bare­footed, focused in your mind. Fil­ter­ing out all the clut­ter. And at the end, you relize “you can do anything”.

lincoln says

gret con­tent…

Kenetic says

What Liz did is remark­able, stu­pen­dous, even extra­or­di­nary given her cir­cum­stances. It’s almost as if her mother’s spirit reached out from beyond and gave her the direc­tion she needed. Unfor­tu­nately, not many who go through tough child­hoods have this per­se­ver­ance sta­mina. Even if they try and try and go for pro­fes­sional help, they often remain dam­aged, some­thing deep inside seems to hold them back. This story is great for any­one strug­gling at the moment. All the answers lie within. Con­nect­ing to them is the hard­est part. Bravo to Liz!

Charles says

Burt,

Thank you for being the leader and break­ing the trail.

We can all change just 1 degree and make a bet­ter life. All we have to do is choose to do it.

FRANCISCO says

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUOUS REMINDERS, IT KEEPS ME ON MY FEET.

Ilana says

The San­skrit word for “to know” means “to go through”.

I always remem­ber that when I “think” I know some­thing. I ask myself, “Really? Have you gone through that?”

Thanks again Burt for another valu­able article.

Goffry says

Hi Burt,
i have a ques­tion about the belief sys­tem? Do you know meth­ods to test if a belief has changed, after the exe­cu­tion of exer­cises to change that belief??
I tried to prac­tice with the affir­ma­tions in alpha level to change some beliefs, but i don’t know how to ver­ify the results.
In my point of view the energy test to ver­ify a belief is good if i test another per­son but not as self check method.
Thanks

A. Inga Haraldsdottir says

I will pass this on to my grand­chil­dren, thank you.

PanneerSelvam.R says

This will definitly boost con­fi­dence level of any­one and moti­vates to reach the goal of his exis­tance on this golden earth.

Thank you for the communication

PanneerSelvam.R says

The will definitly boost con­fi­dence level of any­one and moti­vates to reach the goal of his exis­tance on this golden earth.

Thank you for the communication

shin says

Of Course we do real­ize that No one acept this young woman in the vedio had any­thing to do with her suc­cess acept her. Actu­ally hav­ing her on this sight is a dis­crase. Try­ing to make money off some­one elses suc­cess is the low­est. That would be just below try­ing to become rich off expe­ri­ance recieved from Source, God or what ever it is called now.
And when it comes right down to it there is actu­ally noth­ing here to learn that you do not already know.
So Breathe deeply and BE. no one elses knowl­edge will actu­ally work for you and all the rest is hipe.
Not neg­a­tive sim­ply a fact.
shin

pretyyk says

I had a sim­i­lar story s Liz when I was grow­ing up in fos­ter care and I ended up with scholor­ship too to George­town. I even became a lawyer. How­ever, I dont feel that suc­ces­ful as a lawyer b/c I encoun­tered a lot of envy and was con­flicted about being a mom or hav­ing a career.
I even met a guy who did not like my career or men who triedto bring me down. I don’t know what hap­pened but a part of me seemed like it died when I real­izedthat peo­ple envied my so-call suc­ces and Iwas meet­ing guys who did not really care for it.
Its this con­flict in me of either being hap­pily mar­ried with chil­dren or being lonely and suc­ces­ful that keeps me stuch with just being an ok lawyer stuck in temp­ing as a lawyer and going around in cir­cles with bad rela­tion­ships.
I do want to give up at times, but a voice in me says its just a test. I think its b/c I’m older and the peo­ple around me are not as sup­port­ive. I wish I had more really good freinds.
Peo­ple seem to love to help teens ‚but, as an adult they think you don’t need nur­tur­ing. Any­way, I’m glad for this blog b/c it helps me to reflect on my goals and its feels like at least a few peo­ple are on the wave length of achiev­ing thier high­est dreams.

josi says

such a great post burt..it’s like my life on screen with my girls [4]…but my daugh­ter just had a baby doing drugs an we [the other sis­ters an me] chose to take care of him[richie] in hopes that my daugh­ter will stop doing drugs ..she also has 2 other boys..so she’s aban­doned her boys for her drug which she’s done since 13 years old..now 29yrs old…it’s so sad cause their is no way she will stick with a pro­gram to clean up..so now we have to com­pound an pray for our love ener­gies be here for the extra work to be done..an my other girls have their kids too…with no dad­dys to help out[bad choices in men].…just a great story blog that proves more how much your pro­gram of NOT GIVING UP..an SWITCHING TO POSITIVE THOUGHTS..which repro­grams our ACTIONS TO SUCCESS…even just to stay SANE…which is my story cause i gave birth to them an try to help them with the way the dang influ­enc­ing world we have to deter us from stay­ing on track to become something..an love ourself..to be all pow­er­ful SUPER WOMAN OR MAN…YUR GREAT BURT …JOSI***

Tim says

Burt:
I really appre­ci­ate you, you have a tal­ent for point­ing out what should be obvi­ous to all, but some­times is not. I, like most, look for­ward to your emails, and I too would ben­e­fit from know­ing more about your expe­ri­ence with Yogananda.

God bless you Burt.

D Q says

I have been sty­dy­ing med­i­ta­tion based on the teach­ings of Jose Silva for two years now and recently your site wss also revealed to me. From the small­est things, I awake sec­onds before my alarm goes off in the morn­ing, to the larger things, i have nearly trip­pled my income in the last two years. I am amazed every­day at the true and inner power, not to men­tion peace of self imposed beliefs based on help­ing your­self by help­ing oth­ers.. Maybe this should be required for entry into the US Congress ?

Leila says

A role model — some­one who when you see them act and be inspires you to be like them — is a great thing. I found one once and have never for­got­ten the lessons I learned. I don’t always live up to what I saw, but I try.
Liz is very remark­able I think and I love her take on per­se­v­er­ence — going through the place where you think you can’t go on (like in the poem — If).
Great post, Burt.

rob francis says

wow what a inspi­ra­tional story liz knew deep inside her core that the immence power of her will would lift her off the floor and up amongst the stars you truly got it baby im very very proud of you well done love robo

Keith says

Burt, thank you so much for the inspi­ra­tion and knowl­edge. I con­tinue to lis­ten to my Quan­tum Jump­ing discs and gain fur­ther insight with each time through the mod­ule. In regards to Wendy L. com­ments, I would also love to hear more about your stud­ies with Yogananda, I think of the bagha and its appli­ca­tion and won­der how this applies to my com­muning with God. I have read most all of Yogananda’s writ­ings and would like the ‘know­ing’ of this appli­ca­tion. Your e-mails are always a high­light of my day and gives me much to think about help­ing to erase neg­a­tiv­ity and beliefs from my life. Keith

Wendy L. says

Burt,
May you live a long, long life because you will need to in order to share every­thing you have learned so far! Thank you! You were so blessed to have stud­ied with Yogananda too! i think your read­ers would love to hear more about that! I know I would.
Wendy
P.S. The Quan­tum Jump­ing is a really pow­er­ful, sim­ple tool to use. xo

Brian says

You hit my nail on the head. I have a world of knowl­edge but so far have not put it to best use. My life is “OK” but no where near what it could be. In an alter­nate uni­verse I could have helped my cousin over­come can­cer but did not. I could have earned a PhD but was not inter­ested. On the other hand I could be dead but am still liv­ing. My chal­lenge now is to start and con­tinue to get “bet­ter and bet­ter” Oppor­tu­ni­ties keep knock­ing. I need to pick a few and run with them.

Farrokh says

Hi Burt
I am 75 stay­ing alone in a big house in Pune INdia,After read­ing your blog I started won­der­ing how I lived through and what if I had found you earlier,but never mind .There is a say­ing in our lan­guage that from the time you awaken is the time your morn­ing starts.Thanks for awak­ing us.God bless you.

Sherry says

Even here it the posts, I see a cou­ple of peo­ple who are hold­ing on to the past and it is keep­ing them from enjoy­ing all the hap­pi­ness that life has to offer. To Anne, I say kill them with kind­ness, it has always worked for me. It seems that peo­ple don’t mind at all that I am very tal­ented, as long as I am nice, happy and will­ing to pass on any knowl­edge that I have while work­ing with them as a team. When the project has all of our names on it, it also has all of our com­bined tal­ents within it, and it becomes some­thing greater as a whole than the sum of its parts. Often we pre­con­cieve the prej­u­dices of oth­ers and in keep­ing our guard up, we recre­ate the same prob­lems and sit­u­a­tions that we have expe­ri­enced in the past. My rule of thumb on this is, if it hap­pens three times, it is prob­a­bly me who is the prob­lem. A few intro­spec­tive moments can really help to unlock the secrets and allow us to stop the cycle and open our­selves to a bet­ter way of see­ing the sit­u­a­tion, and act­ing upon it. Hap­pi­ness is the best revenge and also the best healer. It also draws peo­ple to us because hap­pi­ness is con­ta­gious, and every­one wants to catch it. I am a much hap­pier and more pro­duc­tive per­son since I stopped allow­ing those around me to con­trol my moods. Truly, either we con­trol our atti­tude or our atti­tude con­trols us. Be happy, live the dream. There is not a sin­gle per­son out there who can stop us from doing so with­out our permission.

Talker says

Hi Burt,
I’m older than you and laugh at my sit­u­a­tion. Did all you’ve done, but on a mini scale. Of course money wise you left me at the start­ing line. Only because I never went for it on the scale you have. Maybe as I get older I’ll change my mind and finally go for it. Of course I’ve used your mate­r­ial, even trained with you decades past. So folks if in doubt about ‘does it help or work’ be assured it does. I’m for real, check me out at my blog. I don’t sell any­thing, I’m there for the fun of it and to post infor­ma­tion that helps oth­ers on the path of life.

thetalker dot org/

Timothy james Lowry says

this is Tim and soon as my bro reads or sees it he will tell me ok Tim

Timothy james Lowry says

say there Burt as soon as my best bro Kevin reads it he will tell me ok TIM

Jan says

As a 50-something grad stu­dent I do know about per­se­ver­ance. I also know how much I depend upon peo­ple with pos­i­tive out­looks to keep me going because I find myself tired a lot. Ulti­mately, what keeps me going is the belief that my life can be worth some­thing more than the pain and suf­fer­ing that was my past. That said, I’ve got to get going and write my cap­stone today! namaste

henry says

Wow!!!

Anne says

Burt, I have to bat­tle neg­a­tive pro­gram­ming in my every­day work­ing life. You see, I’m a woman who works in IT, a field that is 99% dom­i­nated by men. They are mostly covert, but some­times very overt with act­ing in ways that are meant to derail me and make me stum­ble. Over the years I have grown accus­tomed to being in a hos­tile envi­ron­ment no mat­ter the job, or the com­pany. It’s always the same. They are nice at first until they real­ize that my ideas are good and I am a threat, then they become cal­lous and mean. But, years ago I real­ized that I have just as much right to be there as they do. I have fam­ily to sup­port just like they do and I have a right to use my brain to do it. It’s helped me to endure the hos­til­ity, even if work is a very lonely place.

Anne

John Otradovec says

I am still wait­ing for a reply to the mes­sage I sent over 30 days ago. I received your cd’s which are defec­tive. How can I get them replaced? I would like to start your pro­gram in a rea­son­able amount of time. What say you ?

Vickie says

Burt, thank you once again for true inspi­ra­tion — you have pro­vided me with a large part of my own path of recov­ery from a devis­tat­ing divorce with your teach­ings and sto­ries. I am bet­ter and bet­ter, and thank you again. Please con­tinue with your offer­ings of hope.

Sandra says

Asolutely loved the movie it gives as a chance to realise what poten­tial is open to us, how we as spir­tual beings can advance our­selves.
Thank you for point­ing it out

Roseline says

I believe there was an actual movie on the won­der­ful girl and I have watched it more than once.

She beat all the odds and she is truly remark­able, She did this with­out hat­ing her mother or par­ents too.

This is the ulti­mate les­son we can all learn and you can only love her for her brav­ery and right thinking.

nicholas schlee says

hey burt,
i am an archi­tec­tural designer, a very tal­ented one, 68 years old, suf­fer­ing from par­al­i­sis from a stroke that i had thirty years ago, fur­ther both­ered by a trapped nerve in my neck, forcibly retired, and hat­ing it. i want to know, whether there is any chance of obtain­ing from you, a scholarship,as my finan­cial sit­u­a­tion is pretty scarey at present. please help me, at least, please write to me, and acnoledge receipt of this letter

margo says

Burt God Bless you for all you are and do.

chuck says

Burt, I am grate­ful and thank­ful to you. I came upon you and your work by chance on the web sev­eral months ago and I haven’t been the same since. I am know­ingly and con­sciously mod­el­ing myself after you. I truly believe that by emu­lat­ing you I can be a suc­cess­ful teacher and moti­va­tor too.…. Thanks a mil­lion for all you do.….See you at the top! Regards Chuck.

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