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delilah says

Dear Burt,

I feel so blessed that God keeps send­ing peo­ple in my life as my role model in deep prayer which now we called meditation.

It started in early years after I grad­u­ated in col­lege when I stud­ied spe­cial cours on reli­gious stud­ies. It was part of our for­ma­tion to pray for 1 hour silent prayer/or med­i­ta­tion to develop our spir­i­tual life goes with aca­d­e­mic and work or min­istry, for one year and one and two summer.

After this for­ma­tion, I worked as pas­toral worker in Mus­lim area in my coun­try, Philip­pines where my Bishop and other reli­gious mis­sion­ary that I worked with involved in con­tem­pla­tive prayer or even applied the med­i­ta­tion tech­niques from Buddhist/Hindus tra­di­tion. The deep prayer life of the Mus­lims 5x a day sounded in the whole city cre­ates a very con­tem­pla­tive atmos­pher plus the wit­ness­ing of the prayer life with all those I lived and workked with inspires me to con­tinue in prayer.

When I arrived in Canada, I find it dif­fi­cult to prac­tice such inten­sity of prayer life which I believed was the rea­son of all sorts of cri­sis I had expe­ri­enced dur­ing the first few years.

But, God con­ti­nously pour­ing out His bless­ings to me in spite of my own lim­i­ta­tion, that last sum­mer I took a course under a lay pro­fes­sor who deepth­ness of his prayerlife/spirituality is sim­i­lar to those peo­ple with whom I had been with who helped me to love to med­i­tate. In our class prayer/meditation in Chris­t­ian tra­di­tion is not pop­u­lar in words but it is being lived out/practice that makes the class very life giv­ing and peo­ple become more lov­ing… THERE’S LIFE…

To give credit to this pro­fes­sor (though he does not need it) Prof. Michael Hyrniuk shortly became my spir­i­tual direc­tor. For some rea­son, we did not con­tinue our meet­ing, but His mod­el­ling and influ­enced in my life evoked in me the gift that i already have but not thor­oughly prac­tice until I met him/ learned some­thing from his wit­ness­ing about spir­i­tu­al­ity. With his influ­enced in my life I con­ti­noulsy doing my meditation.

Burt, your pro­gram and lessons, guid­ance and wis­dom rein­forced such expe­ri­enced for I learned a lot from you Burt.

Burt, thank you so much for encour­ag­ing us to share our experience.

Have a Nice Evening
adelaida

Wendy says

Burt,
how for­tu­nate you were to be in Yogananda’s pres­ence to have the bless­ing to model after him. I have been involved in Sid­dha Yoga for over 20 years and have fol­lowed the teach­ings of Guru­mayi and Baba Muk­tananda. I recently became involved with Kriya yoga courses through Yogananda’s self real­iza­tion fel­low­ship. I lis­tened to the Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of a Yogi for at least a year non-stop, no radio, no TV, just the Auto­bi­og­ra­phy. It was incred­i­bile and I rec­om­mend that to any­one that really wants to open up the chan­nels to see what is pos­si­ble for each and every one of us. I have been in the pres­ence of Guru­mayi for 2 inten­sives, but I feel like I am her and she is me. So I can just imag­ine how won­der­ful it was to be with your Guru on a con­sis­tent basis. Yes, you are so cor­rect, by fol­low­ing and believ­ing the deep teach­ings of the self through enlight­ened beings does make every­thing so much eas­ier. Thank you for sharing.

Cindy says

My great­est teacher in this life is my
Grand­mother. She crossed over 20 years ago, and she is with me every day.

A smile on your face, a hug in your eyes and a laugh in your heart are best to share in and out of the mirror!

Sandra says

First of all, Jesus for obvi­ous reason’s, but also my 20 month old great grand­son.
He is so sweet and pure, unbi­ased, not a prej­u­dice bone in his body, and he does not know how to hate.
He gives uncon­di­tional love, and is full of learn­ing, play­ing, and laugh­ter. That’s what I want is to
be able to love uncon­di­tion­ally, and to always be full of learn­ing, laugh­ter and play­ful­ness. He is so inno­cent, which I believe is the essence of who we all are. Think about it, we were all born inno­cent, some one had to teach us how to be who we are now. I just want to go back to the inno­cents, the purity. He is so gen­uinely happy, and most of the time for no rea­son, just because he’s so inno­cent and doesn’t know any thing else yet.

Blue Skies,
Sandy

anna harper says

I would like to learn more of Burts sug­gested rou­tines,
as a prac­tioner of his mate­ri­als, I am always look­ing to improve and I con­sider Burt a great role model. Thanks Burt .…Anna

Heide says

Hi Burt,
being an con­scious being of spirit has started when I was 24 years old. In this time, I lived in the south of France, in a com­mu­nity, buildet by an ancient priest, who has served the pope in rome. He gave me the book to read:
The life of the Masters,..from Baird T. Spald­ing.
This was my open­ing. And the real first con­tact with the Christ…Love every-body…
This is a big deal, and do not know­ing myself, I loved and loved and loved, and for­gived every-bodies.
But not me,.…..
Than lat­est, after another rela­tion­ship was falling down, the last lover told me, that I‘ve to love myself.
What a big deal. Where to start? Being good to myself, lov­ing myself. Look­ing inside, there is a big whole, going deeper and deeper, larger, wider. Infinity,..waow..
And where I am? How can I tell, that the I exist?
By being form, I am a reflec­tion (mir­roir) of all around me. And the Other‘s are me.
All the great teach­ers who are teach­ing Love are my teach­ers, children‘s and innocence,–everybody can give, if my ears and eyes are wide enough opened.
I wish that this earth-familie wake up from their dream– to be this body, that they stop to kill them­self, by ignorence.
That the value of life itself will be greater as the mate­r­ial.
That, it is no more the hav­ing, but the being the most impor­tant.
Heide

Shelley says

My tai chi teach­ers, for starters. They are calm,
happy, bal­anced, healthy, giv­ing, kind, and strong. I sim­ply enjoy being in their pres­ence. It makes me feel at home, happy, and it’s just plain fun learn­ing from them. There are also many more peo­ple I’d like to emu­late. My Aunt, NithyaAnanda, even fic­tional char­ac­ters like Dr. Who, and, after lis­ten­ing to so much of your won­der­ful mate­r­ial, you, Burt!

Thank you for being you!
Shelley

Desiree says

Dear Burt,

..And to any­one else who reads this.

Please con­sider me the new kid on the block, or rookie if you will, when it comes to the path of Enlightenment.

But I DO want to learn, even more I want to APPLY those skills to my life. My life is good, pls don’t get me wrong.. But what I want is an amaz­ing life. Grow­ing up, I thought amaz­ing lives only belonged to rich peo­ple. Now I’m begin­ning to see dif­fer­ently, and I’m so glad that I did

Thank you Burt for all that you’ve shared with the world so far. And I con­tinue to look for­ward to any­thing else that you’d like to spread around

thank you for every­thing
your friend
Desiree

al leyva says

ummm my nympha…she is so good and noble and pure as snow and tries so hard to please me and others„,jesus of course and God who is love..My dad and my daugh­ter jen­nifer born good and is good…ollie my father in law so good!…Alll for now …Alll sym­bols of love and giving!

joe says

jesus and buddha

because they repersent peace and love of the world

where as peo­ple teach this and yet smudge for they jesus and bud­dha is the rea­son why I try and not harm with spir­tual power that could so eas­ily so too say
it is the rea­son can these peo­ple be con­si­cence mod­el­ing. LVX joe

Andrew says

Time spent with the Paramhansa Yogananda must have undoubt­edly ben­e­fit­ted you. And tak­ing him as a role model and emu­lat­ing him must have done you quite good.
But at this time I remem­ber the great spir­i­tual mas­ter, Osho say­ing “Do what your guru says. Never copy what he does.” And I want to go with that quote. Let me give you an exam­ple. Sup­pose you stayed with a doc­tor for a cou­ple of years and worked accord­ing to his advice. Surely in a cou­ple of years you would know a thing or two about med­i­c­i­nal prac­tice. Then one day you decided to emu­late the doc­tor and started doing the prac­tice as he used to do. Does this make you a doc­tor? Rather than mak­ing you a doc­tor it would cre­ate a false sense of self. Hav­ing some­one as a role model makes life easy to some extent. But it will not lib­er­ate you. And every human on this planet wants lib­er­a­tion. For lib­er­a­tion, self real­i­sa­tion is the one and only way. And this can only be achieved in deep state of med­i­ta­tion. The great Paramhansa Yogananda was a great expo­nent of it and you were very lucky to have per­son­ally inter­acted and prac­ticed under his guid­ance. But emu­lat­ing him as a role model did not make you as lib­er­ated as Paramhansa Yogananda. Or did it?

Rick Garzaniti says

Chil­dren are my role mod­els. Although I do not con­sciously model their actions, I strive to emu­late (per­haps “remem­ber” would be more appro­pri­ate) their inno­cence, their curios­ity, and their love for every­one. I thor­oughly enjoy watch­ing them expe­ri­ence some­thing for the first time, lis­ten­ing to the ques­tions they ask and the com­ments they make. They are liv­ing this life as if every­thing is brand new! Sim­ply know­ing that these kids might actu­ally be tak­ing care of me 20 years from now only increases the love and heart­felt grat­i­tude I have for them.

Anita says

So many beau­ti­ful answers.
For me I also see every­body and every­thing as a mir­ror. All is an aspect of me also. I always (want to) see myself in the other and see the other in me.
I use ‘other selfs’ as exam­ples (quan­tum jump­ing). I use Burt, Jesus, Boedha, my best friend Monique. Bob Doyle, Sasha Xar­rian, Helen Had­sell. My daugh­ter, ‘my’ cat’s. “Log­ging in”, yes.
I use All that is, myself included.

Thanks!
Anita.

Shankar says

I feel the ques­tion is not all-inclusive. i have many role mod­els. What I do is to log on to the spir­i­tual energy field of a model and try to emu­late a cer­tain qual­ity. For another qual­ity, I log on to another role model. Hindu scrip­tures have a San­skrit word for “log­ging in” — ava­hana. Here, we invite another energy field — for a tem­po­rary period — into our energy field and “gather” what­ever is needed.
Shankar, India

Kit says

Hi all,

I have read a lot of your posts (apolo­gies for not read­ing all — time). I fear some of us may have missed Burt’s point. I don’t think he is talk­ing about find­ing a role model and aspir­ing to be like them. Burt’s point (cor­rect me if I’m wrong please Burt) is that in the pres­ence of the peo­ple we admire we should copy/adopt/mirror their exact body lan­guage and then use the same movements/mannerisms in other areas of our lives. In a rel­a­tively short time using your body exactly the same way that they do will gen­er­ate the same feel­ings, insights, skills or suc­cesses of those whom we are mod­el­ing. Just keep a clear, open and play­ful mind and all will hap­pen magically.

To all

Good luck being you.

Ben says

Thanks Burt for your mes­sages and your efforts to spread enlight­en­ment through­out the world. I have had a notion about some­thing dif­fer­ent within me for most of my life. I have had these feel­ings that there is some­thing I know but, I don’t know what it is that I know. I’m 55 yrs old now and when I was 22, I read the Third Eye by Lop­sang Rampa and met some­one who intro­duced me to a new way of under­stand­ing the uni­verse. Since then I’ve con­tin­ued to search and have come across Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyre, Eck­hart Tolle, Jane Roberts, Karen Bishop, Dr. Eric Pearl and have tried to study the I Ching. What you have pre­sented in your lat­est pro­gram of Quan­tum Jump­ing is an awe­some oppor­tu­nity for me to expe­ri­ence what I have always been look­ing for. I hope this is the model that will pro­pel me into achiev­ing the abil­ity to learn tech­niques and to heal so that I can give back and share with peo­ple who need the help.

Cecilia says

Hi Burt happy easter. My role model is the Holy fam­ily. I can’t think of any one.I can’t even med­i­tate deep.I don’t know if I have to have a teacher.What do you think?

Teresa T. says

I don’t have one.…I can’t think of any one per­son. There are a lot of peo­ple I admire and wish I had there knowl­edge but no one per­son I would like to model after.…it would have to be Jesus.…because he walked from his heart and spirit.…I endeav­our to be the best per­son I can be and prac­tise his teach­ings and principles.

James Shelton says

I hon­est to God only wanna be me and that is all.If i had any asper­a­tions to be like any­body it would be maybe har­ri­son ford for his boldness,bob dylan for his will to never give up on his dreams and goals,Jesus for his ways of teach­ing the world how to suc­ceed and lastly a train or plane dri­ver who actu­ally can get me to LA where I so want to be.Want is not bad it’s also a vari­a­tion of desire and lust as well i still am confused.words can even intersect.It all still baf­fles me.I mean i stud­ied many numer­ous belief even the hin­dus and still am baf­fled and even Chris­t­ian books and still haven’t fully dis­cov­ered the Mys­ter­ies of Christ.Well maybe I have,yet my life I so want to make it bet­ter I mean ain’t sup­posed to live each day to it’s fullest ain’t that God’s own wish for me.If so how is that even pos­si­ble if pes­simism is still in my mind and how can i rid of it and still get the girl that i love.i’d do any­thing for her absolutely anything,yet sadly i am unem­ployed work online and my bishop mis­treats me.maybe i should change my email sadly i may because it is get­ting out of hand.all i care about in the world is this girl,God and achiev­ing my dreams and help­ing oth­ers too.

Pranab says

It is great that you got inspi­ra­tion from Parama­hansa Yogananda.For me till now I am inclined to any body to be very frank.Some say, life actu­ally starts with death.Also, peo­ple say present life is noth­ing more than a dream,either sweet or bitter.In India there are many spir­i­tual gurus who teach things like Know­ing Thy­self through meditation,Bhakti Yoga,Karma Yoga all dif­fer­ent approach con­cern­ing a pri­mary motive-Self Realisation,Knowing thy­self. The sys­tem seems to be a tough one,and that liv­ing a nor­mal life it is not pos­si­ble to attain that level of self realisation,me to no different.

Many aspects of know­ing higher-self, like know­ing the can­dle [ 3 1/2 coil called kun­dalani in Indian cul­ture ] resid­ing at the base of spine capa­ble to pro­duce vibra­tory aware­ness and bring one close to the uni­ver­sal one­ness, wait­ing to be lit by a empow­ered mas­ter. I expe­ri­enced that. This is self reli­sa­tion. But what is next? Will explor­ing sub con­scious mind, expe­ri­enc­ing out of body expe­ri­ence can bring us close to God or know­ing that super nat­ural power can pave the way where there is no ques­tion of return to this world-THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ALL GURUS and we com­man man.

Maggie says

My Grand­mother Ruby was and has been an inspi­ra­tion to me. She was crip­pled from Polo and was raised in a Char­ity Hos­pi­tal for Chil­dren for 14 yrs. She had the abil­ity to sleep while float­ing on water, like on a pond or a lake. She saw the world as unchang­ing, from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion we humans remain the sameshe would tell me. It is only how we look at life that changes the focus of our lives. With my new per­sonal growth of mov­ing to a more com­plete life within myself. I will use Ruby and my new knowl­edge of the inner work­ings of my mind to help cre­ate a new view of the world for myself and oth­ers to enjoy.

Mag­gie

Pradip says

Well role mod­els sure but hero wor­ship­ping no that is what I always thought after see­ing the gurus and saints try­ing to emu­late GOD.
I sin­cerely feel that what­ever a per­son is try­ing to become should not come out from a sense of incom­plete­ness. We need to thank GOD for cre­at­ing us the way we are. At the same time noth­ing should deter us from a path of higher con­scious­ness.
My role mod­els are peo­ple who are artist,scientist, heal­ers, vision­ar­ies and thinkers. I really admire peo­ple like Van Goh, Miche­len­gelo, Leonardo Da vinci who had were bestowed with artis­tic and sci­en­tific skills.

Till date I have not bought any lessons from Burt, how­ever my active par­tic­i­pa­tion seems to be hav­ing a very sooth­ing affect in me. I feel more calm­ness in me and­hope to con­tinue to par­tic­i­pate in Burts blogs

josi says

from 6yrs.old when i lived with my granny,she was play­ing the piano free style an singing the song “what a friend we have in jesus”..looking up at her as she sang that song made me feel secure an loved[my mom had just dropped me off there an took off]…so as i devel­oped through the years i looked back at her atti­tude an how she helped me to always know that i was loved an looked after..my granny was a role model for me giv­ing me strenght at that time in my life..then as i lived fur­ther down my road of life more peo­ple came along to inspire more spir­i­tual inter­est an mind knowledge.…so yes our read­ings an peo­ple who come into our life all have our refer­ance guide so to speak to keep us going..like you burt ..another life sus­tain­ing infor­ma­tion or song ..even a bugs bunny car­toon..:) josi***

Richard says

Peo­ple, stop wish­ing to be like some­one else, har­ness the abil­ity inside of you, and just do it!

r.L says

I think the only essen­tial thing i really want or need to have now is patience..so some­one with infi­nate patience..Don’t know who that would be..Someone special!!

Thanx from the world for help­ing share wis­dom in truth!!

Manoj says

Hi Burt ..this does have a sci­en­tific basis and a name …it’s NLP (Neuro lin­guis­tic programming).…

Neco says

I stand cor­rected, Not Fan­tashia it was the “Never end­ing Story”.

Neco says

Hi Burt,

Role Mod­el­ing, hum, That would be a tough ques­tions if you never thought about it. I remem­ber once a long time ago a teacher asked a ques­tion ” How do you want to make your mark in this world”. I think that is a pow­er­ful ques­tion that has stuck with me through the years. There are many. I can stay, I can cre­ate and make goals, look up to other peo­ple char­ac­ters and even human­i­tar­i­ans, Yogananda and many many more. But, I being a mother had to be the best role model, to set the exam­ple, to encour­age, to allow them to dream and believe in them­selves and find their own path in life. I to have had just ever­day peo­ple, some­times I think angels come from nowhere to help guide and direct me. It may even come in the form of dreams and instincts. I had to be intuned and opened minded. You got to look deep within your soul, maybe even deeper, and ask your­self, what do you want! Some of you may not even know how to do that. If you died today and your whole life flashed before you, and I mean every­thing, good and bad.Do you like what you see, if not, then start chang­ing. Know that will comes with peace within you. You only get one life here, dream it and cre­ate it, make it happen…I am still a work in progress. No I am not rich, a sin­gle mother who barely at times could make ends meet. A lot of hard times. A lot of my child­hood dreams are still wait­ing in me, and still a part of me. I never let the inner child go and I never let the bad things of this world get in me. My chil­dren are my life, (well now they are all grown up) so now I am faced with the chan­lenge of finally say­ing I’m still not to old to fol­low my inner child goals, dreams… what­ever, just make the first step.
Burt is a great exam­ple, see your never to old or young in this life, but it’s the here and now, when you wake up today, how do you want your day be? Regard­less, look at no obsti­cles, focus on the end results and know at the end of the day, you’ll hope­fully say “WOW” I did that!
Burt you like some many oth­ers in the past, keeps me alive and know­ing there is alway more. Even though, I know I am not along, but I do have to say, my every­day life. I do feel all alone, on a qwest and jour­ney kinda like that movie “Fan­tashia” and all along the answers were inside. Thank you

Elias says

Burt I Got it!

I can model my coun­ter­part, my other self, i can use quan­tum jump­ing and observe what he does, this depend­ing on what do I want to con­cen­trate on, YES! I got it.. thanks

skip says

BURT ATMA NAMASTE I TRY TO BE MORE LIKE MY TEACHER GRAND MASTER CHOA KOK SUI WHO TOUGHT ME MANY GREAT LESSONS FOR LIFE AND BEYOND HIS HEALING TECHNICES SAVED ME FROM BACK SURGERY I AM BLESSED TO HAVE THIS GREAT TEACHER. SKIP

Keith says

Thanks Burt for direct­ing us to our own enlight­en­ment. I have read many of Yogananda’s books and find him as a per­sonal men­tor and Guru for cor­rect­ing pre­vi­ously held beliefs. Though I have been read­ing as much as pos­si­ble with Kriya Yoga, I have not attained suc­cess in achiev­ing this desired path. You have passed on more infor­ma­tion in this regard and are held in high esteem on my part. I often think of your ques­tion­ing when deal­ing with cer­tain indi­vid­u­als and ask them; what would your life be like with­out this or that?, to which I have had suc­cess with assist­ing a younger woman to over­come alco­holism. I give credit to where it is due, namely to you and the won­der­ful teach­ings of a true mas­ter in Paramhansa Yogananda. Con­tinue to feed us this won­der­ful knowl­edge so that we too may help oth­ers find them­selves amidst the teach­ings from our child­hood; estab­lish­ing a path of joy and inspi­ra­tion. Keith

Kenny says

Ok minor bet­ter is’nt a good way to explain\

I feel.…enlightend but only at times of relax­ation. i dont feel enlight­ened when i am walk­ing around a store or even my house unless i have recently meditated.

I have a weird feel­ing, in my chest that feels as if i need to breath somthing out but when i inhale back i feel i need to do so again. (not air i mean a FEELING that i try to breath out of me because that is waht it seems i should do but it keeps com­ing back, sorta an empty feel­ing or the feel­ing you get when you think you for­got something.

i dont know how to explain it except weird…its like a cor­rupted enlight­en­ment feeling.

–Thanks and sorry for multi comment

Kenny says

Jesus,Master parks ( a mar­tial arts teacher found on youtube by the user of ‘chosonninja’),Gerrald O’ don­nal, and you, Burt.

Jesus i want to model, he is sin­less, kind to oth­ers heals and is strong and a much big­ger rea­son also, he is the per­fect­ness we wish to acheive but cannot.

Mas­ter parks, he, although i dont know him per­son­ally is sim­i­lar to a good freind of mine, he teaches some of my favo­rate mar­tial arts and is a strong fol­lower of God.

Ger­ral O’donnal, he is a pow­er­ful teacher with un– sur­passed meth­ods of remote vei­wing and sim­i­lar meditations.

Burt Gold­man, you, i seem already sim­i­lar to although i could model my med­i­ta­tions after you also so i could indeed get bet­ter and better.

I dont feel so much bet­ter and better…i only feel minor bet­ter and i have been doing this for almost 3 months… i assume the free­bies arent as good as the our­chase product..

Strength, is a spe­cial word a word with no def­i­n­i­tion to be put into a sen­tence. It is just a word you learn your­self one day it just comnes to you and you dont know the def­i­n­i­tion. You feel strength you can­not recite its definition.

wdon­er­ful by the way burt , great knowledge.

Kenny says

Jesus,Master parks ( a mar­tial arts teacher found on youtube by the user of ‘chosonninja’),Gerrald O’ don­nal, and you, Burt.

Jesus i want to model, he is sin­less, kind to oth­ers heals and is strong and a much big­ger rea­son also.

Mas­ter parks, he, although i dont know him per­son­ally is sim­i­lar to a good freind of mine, he teaches some of my favo­rate mar­tial arts and is a strong fol­lower of God.

Ger­ral O’donnal, he is a pow­er­ful teacher with un– sur­passed meth­ods of remote vei­wing and sim­i­lar meditations.

Burt Gold­man, you, i seem already sim­i­lar to although i could model my med­i­ta­tions after you also so i could indeed get bet­ter and better.

I dont feel so much bet­ter and better…i only feel minor bet­ter and i have been doing this for almost 3 months… i assume the free­bies arent as good as the our­chase product..

Strength, is a spe­cial word a word with no def­i­n­i­tion to be put into a sen­tence. It is just a word you learn your­self one day it just comnes to you and you dont know the def­i­n­i­tion. You feel strength you can­not recite its definition.

wdon­er­ful by the way burt , great knowledge.

Barry Wood says

Burt, Grate­full for the free lessons and your insights they are quite ben­e­fi­cial. Like many I am doing it tough I am not com­plain­ing just can­not pur­chase the next step right now. Thankyou Barry {Australia}

Mary says

Hello Dar­lin’ Thank’s for being all that you are…

Things I like, and peo­ple I admire…

The love of Yeshua (Jesus) the frank­ness of Apos­tle Paul the writ­ing abil­ity of Steven King, the beauty of Sarah, the knowl­edge of Adam the spirit of Eve and the humor of Bob Hope.…and when you put it all together I just want to be ME I like what all these have to offer and I’d like a bite out of those apples too… How­ever when you take all the glit­ter and sass away… I want’a be the me that lives on the inside… she’s the most pro­found, inno­v­a­tive, down right truth­ful per­son I know… and I really like her… maybe because I know her best… I know her abil­i­ties and her flaws… and she’s got what it takes to make it all the way to the other side of here and now… she’s my friend and my ever present help in time of need… she’s been with me all my life and she’s never let me down… She’s my Friend… and we’re

Just Mary.…

kt LEE says

Hello~ Burt,

I reckon that you are the role model of me.

As for the yoga which refine our spirit,
I would like to intro­duce “Taek­wondo”, Korean marthal art which might be infor­ma­tive to you bcause it will make you to men­tally refined you.
Kindly refer to fol­low­ing,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo

Thanks a lot.

kt LEE

Brian says

My wife and I are Light­work­ers. She long ago came up with this wis­dom for fast suc­cess: Find some­one who is the best in what you want to do and com­pletely emu­late them. When you have their Way down pat, add your own style!

Samsung Hl R5667W says

My friend rec­om­mended this post to me.

PremRaj says

Beloved Burt G., up till today the one I would most like to con­sciously model is an indi­vid­ual called Pan from http://WWW.BuddhaHill.DE, because he is a true sanyassin from Osho. Love, PremRaj.

Genie says

Hi Burt,
My Guru is Para­man­hansa Yogananda, and I prac­tice Kriya Yoga. Since your enlight­en­ment came from him, you are my role model!

Rosie says

I don’t have one spe­cific role model. I learn from every thing and all beings. So that means that I pick and choose what I feel is good for me, in a given sit­u­a­tion. The rest I dis­card while I am learn­ing what I need to know. My curios­ity to get the best of all, guides me towards what I am look­ing for at that spe­cific moment. For me, life in itself is my inspi­ra­tion and my daily encoun­ters are what gives me the energy to go on every day.
This does not mean that I do not have my inter­est and goals. That is dif­fer­ent from the rich­ness I find every instant I have. So as you, Burt I am try­ing my best to get all I can now and replen­ish. My next step will prob­a­bly start pretty soon, and is to start giv­ing what I have been able to grasp through life and also keep replen­ish­ing in a dif­fer­ent way in order to give some more.

Linda says

OK so I ran across a book of his in the library and loved his mes­sage, but I wanted to learn more. If you join his insti­tute or fel­low­ship you have to sign some­thing that says you won’t share it, or teach it. How did you get around that?

Nicole says

I would like to learn from you! You know it all. I would like to spend one full year near you and attend all
your sem­i­nars if I could afford them!

efigenio says

Hi Burt
Let me first thank you for your lessons–
Regard­ing the model it is dif­fi­cult as human­ity has been hear­ing about souls as Krisna, Budha, Jesus,Ghandi,Yoganada,.…Barak Obama…even you Burt.
my great curios­ity from what i heard is bout Babaji.
So very dif­fi­cult to choose a model though recently i decide to hear from you.

Daniël de Mos says

Hi Burt,

Eversince I attended to your Silva classes, Super­mind 1 and 2, Tran­scen­dent Mind, all your Hyp­no­vi­sion classes and every­thing else you have tought me and are still teach­ing me, I am get­ting more and more aware all the role mod­els I want are already hid­den in myself.

All I have to do is take a Quan­tum Jump in one of my infi­nite dimen­sions to meet the role model I want advice from.

But then, know­ing you as my great­est teacher ever, you don’t make a bad role model your­self either

Yours,

Daniël, The Hague, The Netherlands

matt says

I have always mod­eled myself after my favorite authors such as Hunter S. Thomp­son, Jack Ker­ouac, Ken Kesey, Tom Rob­bins, they have helped make me the con­scious mad man that I am and am going to keep it up and spread the mind expan­sion that they have shown me

Joy Devive says

From Burt:
Who would you most like to con­sciously model, and why? (It doesn’t have to be a famous per­son, even your neigh­bour or co-worker can be a role model!)

Answer from Joy:
YOU! Because you have the ulti­mate love of life.

When can I take you out to lunch in S. Cal, at your favorite restau­rant for starters?

mihaella says

To be honest,Iam a beliver in no com­peresing ‚or competition.For some reason,in our con­sies­ness this two are still trig­ger­ing a negative,an agres­sive think­ing and energies.I wish to find the balance.Yes ‚it maby good to be able and help your self by imag­in­ing the model You want to be.At the same time ‚it will be good if we can man­age to cre­ate our own,so we dont get in to the usual “sheep consiosnes”.Find our deep lev­els and stay at the sur­fess at the same time.Just balance.I am Mihaella and Uni­verse is my GOD or model.Universe to me is end­less, pow­er­ful, rich/MOTHER/,reflecting our human behavior,so we can learn from,and I am a cre­ation of her,wishing to learn what was i blessed with.Then I can bring out every gift i was given from her,and leave it with peo­ple now and behind me.This will give me the most sat­is­fac­tion and joy.Something like that. Mihaella-MAICA

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Petra says

My role mod­els are Anas­ta­sia and her and Vladimir Megre’s son Wolodja. They are absolute purity of thought, clar­ity of intend, uncon­di­tional love, har­mony with all of life, divine wis­dom and cre­ativ­ity.
And they remind us all, where we come from and who we tru­ely are.
Thank you Burt for invit­ing us to think about our role mod­els.
Petra.

harmony says

I am say­ing Anas­ta­sia as well as the other who men­tioned her. wow, if we could find some­one like this (and the oth­ers men­tioned) to emu­late, we would be peace­ful, happy and in the flow with life. why dont we try harder?

Savoi Davis says

If your always “The Man” every where you go, you need to find dif­fer­ent com­pany. A lot peo­ple in the world will say I have no one in my life that I wish to model my life after; if so you need to find big­ger peo­ple to sur­round your self with. Align­ment and who your aligned with deter­mines your next level in life.

Vimala says

Hi Burt, you surely are a human acti­va­tor! My guru is Yogananda and I do prac­tice Kriya yoga, even if he is not there phys­i­cally, one can con­nect with himthro his lessons. Thats what he says in one of his books“Focus on me, think of me and you shall draw energy from me” this is what I prac­tice and this is how one will start imi­tat­ing his guru. God wants us more to imi­tate him than pray to him. I go thro your blogs and find them very inspir­ing. You have had close con­tact and lessons directly from a great mas­ter. I can see his energy in you. There­fore you are my role model!

Karen P Horwitz says

Hi Burt, I was a lit­tle trou­bled at first when I couldn’t think of some­one to model from. The ego can be so much more than it should be! Then I real­ized that the per­son it would have to be, and could only be was Jesus of Nazareth! At one time he was just one more man I couldn’t trust! I’ve come far to get here. I have a long way to go. Things are com­ing faster, but now I don’t have the same health level and my grasp is slip­ping. I know that all we have is love. I know that this requires detach­ment. Doing boot­strap ther­apy, I remain, Karen

Patty Clark says

Hi Burt, I have been watch­ing you care­fully. You are doing what I have wanted to do for years. I want to find some­thing that helps peo­ple and gives them a Good Life that you talk about. I share your infor­ma­tion with lots of peo­ple and thay see the delight in me and the direc­tion they can go also. It is hope in an inter­est­ing time in Amer­ica. Peo­ple are more in a quest for bet­ter in every way now. Bet­ter finances, bet­ter health and more peace and joy. The best part is to pass it on to some­one that has not gone past an obsta­cle and see them blos­som and start the jour­ney toward the Good Life. You have a video where you say it is ok to have abun­dance. Your calm­ness, your beau­ti­ful hair and your mes­sage grabed my heart. I have tried many of your sug­ges­tions with great results. It makes it easy to keep on learn­ing and look­ing for the deep mean­ing. I know what I learn today will help some­one so I walk in a dif­fer­ent way now and there is a grow­ing calm­ness in me now and my hair is the best is has ever been. I guess you might say I am con­sciously mod­el­ing you. It is an honor. Thank you so much for shar­ing and chang­ing my life to the Good Life. Patty

Lissa says

Thomas Jefferson…always think out­side the box…evaluate what engen­ders pos­i­tive growth…change what needs to be changed…don’t be racist…travel…community.…all pretty cool ways to live life.He’s one…but some­times it’s what­ever hap­pens across my path and teaches me that moment.
Love, Lissa

Joseph K. Brady-Amoon says

John Galt — the hero of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Lud­wig von Mises — the world’s best econ­o­mist
Mur­ray Roth­bard — great econ­o­mist
Leonard Read — founder of the Foun­da­tion for Eco­nomic Edu­ca­tion
Sir John Tem­ple­ton– Billionaire

Lisa says

Burt I would have to say you!! as I have always looked up to and hung around peo­ple much older than I,as they are so much wiser and smarter,been there done that,and so many peo­ple do not give them the credit they deserve!! I looked up to hus­bands Grandmother,as she had been through so much,all of her kids except 1 passed before she did,thats very hard on a parent(5 kids and 2 husbands),she was still going strong until a year ago when she started hav­ing surg­eries and went down­hill from there,we lost her last month,I feel a big whole in my heart as she was the one I would call on for advice,she was 88 years young,I didn’t have much as far as parents,as they were the type to always put you down,very abusive,mentally and phys­i­cally my whole life at home,even after I left, and didn’t know my Grandparents,so she was the clos­est I had,I have read all your e-mails and have a huge folder on my com­puter with your name on it,I have not been able to pur­chase your prod­ucts like I would like because of finances,and would love to be men­tored by you,I wished you lived next door to me!! I would love to learn every­thing you know!!There are so many guru’s out there on this whole LOA,manifesting,etc..But I think you have more expe­ri­ence than any­one!! you are very inspi­ra­tional to everyone,you do know what you are talk­ing about and have been doing it for so many years,where oth­ers are just copy­ing the same con­cept but chang­ing it up a lit­tle bit to sell there product,I’m not say­ing thats bad,or that they are a bad person,I know busi­ness is business,but you are years ahead of them and still going strong and learn­ing knew things all the time as well!! You are Great!!!

Pamela Murawski says

I am in agree­ment with you about con­scious role mod­el­ing. I think one of my role mod­els is Jesus only as a woman. I also would role model my mom who is quite the lady. I take dif­fer­ent bits and peices from other peo­ple depend­ing on my mood. I am going to become a famous per­son overnight like kelly Clark­son. In the spir­i­tual world I am Celine Dion really. We are not our bodies.

Jose Sanchez says

Hi Burt,

I would to love to con­sciously model you.

Jose

Linda Yap says

I love ME, so I would model the ME I know and respect the I that I know so that I can guide ME. With due respect to all the ME and the I in Heaven and on Earth.Linda Yap

Tara says

Burt
You are one of the luck­i­est peo­ple to have met and learned from Swami Yogananda. I have read the auto­bi­og­ra­phy of a yogi by him and I couldn’t help lov­ing him. He was the very epit­ome of LOVE and ny role model. When you see his pho­to­graph you can’t help

lov­ing him. I think he did not have to say anything,so charis­matic was he. He was the per­son who ignited in me the power of uni­ver­sal love,the one­ness of I, the world and God.

Ann-kathrine says

Dear Burt,

Thank you so very much.…I have many role-models that I admire and look up to in my life for dif­fer­ent rea­sons… I think it is impor­tand to see your own inner model to, with­out to have some­one else as role-model. True model is our own model, before that it is no point to look out­side of our self. Every­one we see and meet can be our model…and if we like what we see or don´t like.…It is still a mir­ror of our selves. There are so many good peo­ple in this world and I think that every­one is try­ing to do there best to be the best they/we can be.

Love Light & Peace
Ann-kathrine

Linda says

Burt .… What another won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to go within and ascer­tain what qual­i­ties we truly wish to emu­late of anoth­ers.… This may take some pon­der­ing.… Cer­tainly you, with all your years of learn­ing an growth, have much I can learn from. In fact your the only one who I have reg­u­lar video con­tact with in which I could scru­ti­nize maner­isms… Oth­ers would be, and they are all male, not sure what that says about me hahaha .. ok not get­ting into the gen­der thing… Dr. Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden, some of Eric Pearl, Guy Fin­ley … Wow the list could go on … So I shall take the parts I observe to be who “I AM” and slip right into I AM .…. Or ?????? LOL Have a won­der­ful week.. Linda

Rose says

Burt, you are the per­son that I admire. Ever since I been read­ing your e-mails, I have notice the dif­f­ence in my sur­round­ings and my life. Thanks, so much for the free down­loads that you have let me have, since I can’t at the moment afford your med­i­ta­tion tapes. The peo­ple that already have your cd’s they are so spir­i­tu­ally lucky. I am work­ing real hard on my home base busi­ness, so I can afford your tapes I desire to have all of them. My goal is to suceed in my busi­ness so, I can help myself and fam­ily and be able to help other peo­ple too. By the way, I also, have had spir­i­tual dreams, I feel so blessed and happy and feel­ing more con­fi­dent, since I have you in my life.
God Bless you always!

lincoln says

so true…great info.…

David says

Roy Eugene Davis (also a dis­ci­ple of Yogananda) would be my choice if I could spend more time at his Cen­ter for Spir­i­tual Aware­ness, just north of Atlanta, Geor­gia.
His no-fee med­i­ta­tion retreats places him in a dif­fer­ent cat­e­gory than most peo­ple I know.

Christ Thomas says

I’ve watched you Burt

Rich Bair says

Burt, I’m inter­ested in learn­ing more. I have some­thing very impor­tant to ask you about India and Indi­ans. Can I call you or met you?

Katie says

I was in a con­scious rela­tion­ship for five years and my role model died. I have been look­ing for some­one else to model. Burt you are the clos­es­tto what I had in the rela­tion­ship so I am using you to con­sci­u­osly role model.

e fuller says

In look­ing for mod­els, one may pick the char­ac­ter­is­tic you want or need, and take your mod­el­ling from many: Tony Rob­bins writes about this, and I do believe it has been use­ful to me. Unknow­ingly, as a young child, I used this. I wouldn’t have had any names for it, but I trusted myself intu­itively in this to find mod­els who acted the way I wanted and felt I needed to be. Teach­ers, class­mates, neigh­bors, peo­ple on TV and in movies were won­der­ful mod­els. I didn’t need to know or impugn or sec­ond guess their or mine motives, just cap­ture the essence and put on the demeanor. Act­ing as if really works!!

Mauricio says

Burt,
it´s so difi­cult, because if you are poor(poor of money or soul), prob­a­bly you should know per­son at the same state because you atracted them. How i should know a per­son of another level and fol­low her ?
If you are poor, prob­a­bly all your friends are poor to.
I think if you want go to another level you must fol­low a greater enlight­ened persons.

flora says

thank you for the la vie en rose com­men­tary.
we are unwed lovers and par­ents of our beau­ti­ful girl. thank you for remind­ing me that…this is a cul­tur­ally avail­able choice and that it does not dimin­ish the beauty or even exem­plar­i­ness of our love. i often feel that…if only we were mar­ried we would be such a model of lov­ing. and yet, some­thing in our love affair makes it one out of wed­lock. and yet…i know it is good love. so thank you. i live in a french town. i for­get that i may embrace my own rela­tion­ship as an exam­ple of good love.

Prabhakar says

Burt,
Role mod­els keep chang­ing for me. At times there will be a feel­ing that when I look myself in the mir­ror, I appear like the Role model as well.
I do not know if it is just a thought. But it hap­pens when I con­sis­tely try to see some­one through me.

Thanks

Cris says

Hi Burt,

In my quest for spir­i­tual enlight­en­ment, I have read many books, attended sem­i­nars and lis­tened to count­less tapes, but I always though that being able to con­sciously emu­late some­one who had already achieved the things I was aim­ing for would greatly accel­er­ate my own journey.

I must say that right now, the best spiritual/ law of attraction/ liv­ing your pur­pose teacher I have met is you. All of a sud­den, things and con­cepts I was strug­gling with are becom­ing clearer, and I’m feel­ing a lot more confident.

So, if there is one per­son I would want to con­sciously model after right now, it is you. You embody the dream I have for myself, the per­son I dream to become.

Daryl Quintanilla says

The per­son I would model is respoen­si­ble for becom­ing enlight­ened on his own, mostly. He felt he had a call­ing and decided that help­ing peo­ple was his mis­sion in life. I first heard about him and his orga­ni­za­tion at at early age, his name and his mis­sion intrigued me and stayed with me for years…It was much later in life, when I really needed his advice, his con­sul and his con­tri­bu­tion to my well being that his orga­ni­za­tions web­site appeared on my screen. Since then, I could list the improve­ments in my life, but it would sound like a com­mer­cial, his name is Jose Silva from Laredo, Texas.

Miriama says

Is’nt this what the dwa­dle is all about.The role model is yourself.Or did I get this all wrong?

Robin says

In Sup­ple­ment to my pre­vi­ous com­ment. If any­one has guid­ance. opin­ions, expe­ri­ence or direc­tion for me in my per­sonal jour­ney please feel free to com­ment I am defi­nat­ley in a per­sonal enlight­en­ment and growth stage. I am very con­fused and hope that all this will help. Please feel open to com­ment and my email for dis­cre­tion can be reached Rharnett@persona.ca

Will says

Hey Burt, this is great stuff. As a man, I think real mas­cu­line role mod­els are few and far between. What do I mean? Well, to me a real man is both strong AND gen­tle. The best exam­ple I saw of this was in the movie La Vie En Rose — the story of Edith Piaf the French singer. She had an affair with a French boxer at the time, this would have been the late 40’s I think. His name was Mar­cel Cer­dan, and there are scenes of them together in the movie, like when he took her to a real nice upmar­ket restau­rant in New York. My point is that he was this really tough guy who dom­i­nated the ring — he even fought Rag­ing Bull Jake La Motta — but he treated her like a lady. Here he was, this big strong guy, yet aes­thetic, well-dressed, and hand­some — refined, edu­cated, and treated women and chil­dren with respect and ten­der­ness. So I have been inspired by his exam­ple and try to emu­late the blend of power and gen­tle­ness — even tho I don’t know him personally.

PS I know some will slam him for hav­ing had an affair but you have to take into account that this is not a ‘sin’ in French culture.

Robin says

I my quest for enlight­en­ment and per­sonal peace/happiness That has just started a mere 6 months ago. I am lean­ing so much that one par­tic­u­lar per­son as a role model would be great but with my com­mit­ment to the Silva method and sub­se­quently or as a result the my attempts to use the Quan­tum jump­ing as support.My pre­vi­ous read­ings of Dr Wayne Dyer, Tony Rob­bins, The secret, and many other self enlight­en­ment books and the­o­ries. As I try to prac­tice the best and com­mon ground that all these present am still sort­ing out the cor­rect meth­ods for me. I have had lim­ited suc­cess at present and when I have a clear direc­tion and under­stand­ing will then adapt a men­tor ship routine.

Deborah Crowley says

Hi Burt:

Awe­some think­ing! My role model is an indi­vid­ual that inspires me. He always has a sug­ges­tive motive to ini­vate me with pos­i­tive think­ing and goal set­ting. Under­stand­ing the true mean­ing of liv­ing life on life terms. He is well respected in the com­mu­nity and always help­ing oth­ers, and he is the true mean­ing of a vision­ary. Some­times peo­ple come into our path for a rea­son and we mis­tak­enly con­sider them as a role model. As time goes on we try to fol­low their path and find out later that he/she is not the per­son we want to model after all. I am say­ing this to say that I have found a true role model in my life.

margo says

Burt that is lovely. I am encour­aged now to do more uncon­scious mod­el­ling on Jesus and the peo­ple in the Bible that I admire. But you your­self Burt are a great model and I appre­ci­ate your pres­ence and your voice very much We are so for­tu­nate to have so many won­der­ful peo­ple who point us in a healthy and lively direction

Janice says

In 2008, my hus­band and I started learn­ing Matrix Ener­get­ics from Dr. Richard Bartlett. He does some­thing very sim­i­lar to Con­scious Mod­el­ing. He bor­rows the what he calls mor­phic fields. Some­times he bor­rows the mor­phic fields of his teach­ers, some­times he bor­rows the mor­phic fields of really incred­i­ble peo­ple he knows, like John of God, and some­times he bor­rows the mor­phic fields of fic­tional char­ac­ters. In the lat­ter case, his first expe­ri­ence doing that was hav­ing Super­man show him where the prob­lem was inside a child’s head in order to cor­rect Lazy Eye. I think it all works because it’s all light and inforamtion.

Ramona says

I had an aunt that I called titi Rate. She was the clos­est to enlight­en­ment as I have seen. She had that love energy around her all the time, patience, giv­ing to every­one around her. She was a mother teresa to me. Every time she vis­ited she told me sto­ries that hap­pened to her dur­ing the war. As I grew up she didn’t change, she was as lov­ing (uncon­di­tional love) as ever. She was revereed and respected by every­one who knew her. Titi became a nun at age 60 and was con­sid­ered the ambas­sador of her church in Wis­con­son and when she passed mourned by hun­dreds in all the places she vis­ited, NY,PR,DR,Germany, and many more places. I miss her but I still feel her love. She was my model.

Ramona says

I had an aunt that I called titi Rate. She was the clos­est to enlight­en­ment as I have seen. She had that love energy around her all the time, patience, giv­ing to every­one around her. She was a mother teresa to me. Every time she vis­ited she told me sto­ries that hap­pened to her dur­ing the war. As I grew up she didn’t change, she was as lov­ing (uncon­di­tional love) as ever. She was revered and respected by every­one who knew her. Titi became a nun at age 60 and was con­sid­ered the ambas­sador of her church in Wis­con­son and mourned by hun­dreds in all the places she vis­ited, NY,PR,DR,Germany, and many more places. I miss her but I still feel her love.

Brian says

Hi Burt,

I have to agree with John above. You seem to have it more together than any­one else I know of. My father and oth­ers I have met have admirable qual­i­ties as well. I under­stand this con­scious mod­el­ing prin­ci­ple is extremely pow­er­ful. I think we should learn from who­ever we can. The internal/externa bal­ance is very impor­tant as well. Far too many of us look out­side our­selves when the answers are within us the whole time.

flora says

i model off of my town. the deep relax here is unreal, the per­fect mix of heart and spici­ness. post-katrina it was amaz­ing to watch the grace with which peo­ple moved along to a new day.
warmly,
flora of new orleans

Jan says

I guess i don’t per­son­ally know any­one I would want to emu­late that way. I know that when I am in the pres­ence of aware peo­ple, i pickup their calm, lov­ing­ness and that can carry me quite a while. But over­all? I guess I haven’t met my guru yet.

John says

Hi Burt
I am mod­el­ling on you.
Your voice, its into­na­tion its calmn­ness, which also shows on your face, and the way you move and the look in your eyes all reflect the enor­mous wis­dom that you have acquired on your jour­ney so far.
I can share what you have learned and in turn pass it on to oth­ers. There are signs that this is cre­at­ing results already.
I thank you so much. John

Noelle says

Hi Burt,

Hav­ing read all the blogs here, I have to agree with you and all the peo­ple here. We all have some­one we would love to be like. I love Anas­ta­sia from Rus­sia, I wish I could have some of her gift. Only recently I have been find­ing myself with true pas­sion and pur­pose in life and I look to peo­ple like Oprah or Bar­bara Wal­ters or my friend Amira when I start to wane in my enthu­si­a­sum for my quest. Each of these peo­ple dis­play patience, courage and com­pas­sion for oth­ers, all the while achiev­ing their said goals.
Regards
Noelle

ivan says

i don’t understand…

Johnny says

Anas­ta­sia the woman who lives in the taiga woolds of rusia the one who Vladimir Megre write about. Why? She is in my opin­ion the Jesus in woman form. That’s what i wanne become.
Greetz Johnny

Asaf says

I’ve noticed the gen­eral idea instructed is to choose one “role-model”. Then again, isn’t it pos­si­ble to look up to a few? For not every­thing in one role-model is always accept­ble and found wor­thy of emu­lat­ing — more­over, if we actu­ally eval­u­ate each and every “can­di­date” role-model and fil­ter their virtues and vices, aren’t we actu­ally look­ing within some­how at the end of the day? Try­ing to creat some­what of a “super role-model”? Then remains the ques­tion, isn’t this image in our heads a prod­uct of exte­rior influ­ences after all.

Leila says

I agree with you totally Burt. Hav­ing the oppor­tu­nity to watch and learn from some­one who seems to you to have got it right is an eye-opening expe­ri­ence. One of my son’s coaches was the per­son in my life I truly wanted to emu­late. It was some kind of charisma and con­trol of self that I had never had the chance to observe in real life before.
How great for you to have had that chance with Paramhansa Yogananda.

Kalpana says

Hello Burt,
You are one of the truly blessed and lucky peo­ple to have met Yogananda…to have learnt from him!!!
I do try and model my Guru’s (Shri Kri­pal­vanan­daji — who went into Samadhi 25 yrs ago. He was the epit­ome of love — just sit­ting in his pres­ence one would be enveloped by pure love! I can still feel that love when­ever I feel sad and remem­ber him and talk with him!
I would love to be able to love one and all –but I find that I am not able to do so! There are a few peo­ple who I just can­not even like, the thought of those peo­ple also makes me bit­ter and angry!
I under­stand intel­lec­tu­ally that every­one is con­nected, we are one, etc but I am not able to prac­tice that knowl­edge!
At the same time, I must also say that I have become a lit­tle bet­ter than what I used to be. So, there is still hope

Kristoffer says

Hmm…my higher self and Jesus:-)

Liam says

The funny thing with me is that all my role mod­els are fic­tional char­ac­ters from movies, comics, TV etc…

here is a short list of some of my role mod­els (you may laugh lol) Qui gon Jin a Jedi from star wars, Aragorn from lord of the rings, Bat­man and Doc­tor Who.

i won­der if the con­scious model thing works with them too?

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