Top education for $0

It's hard to belive but it is true. Top universities like MIT, Stanford, Nortre Dame and Yale are offering a growing number of courses free online, posting everything from lecture notes to sample tests and even making audio and video files of actual lectures available.

Many of the schools that offer free online coursework are supported through coursework are supported through grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which says it hopes to promote "Open educational resources." Hewlett so far has given over $68 million to universities and non-profits to post free online materials.

I was just so inspired by the information and what a great way to give away wealth.

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The world within

I am reading Charles Haanel's "Master Key System", and enjoying every word of it. There all millions books of this nature, but this one just puts it all together in an interesting way and it was written 100 years ago. Here is a quote:

"A majority of mankind lives in the world without few have found the world within, and yet it is the world within that makes the world without; it is therefore creative and everything which you find in your world without has been created by you in the word within..."

Ashes to Diamond

Turn Ashes of your loved ones into Diamond!
A blogger friend informed me of this very interesting service. wow! I did not know about it. It does cost a lot of money, but what a great idea (well, for some at least).

My sister emailed this to me:

"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it."

We are our thoughts

Man is Mind, and evermore
He takes the tool of thought
And, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand ills.
He thinks in secret and it comes to pass.
Environment is but his looking glass.
~ James Allen(1864-1912)

I am fascinated by the 19th century motivational writers/philosophers and James Allen was the Godfather of all self-improvement thinkers. Most of todays Self-help gurus studied people like James Allen, Charles Haanel, and Charles Filmore and are making millions from the original thinkers. These men were way ahead of their times, and now after 100 years later, we see their ideas in the mainstream thinking, and self-improvement industry has blossomed which shows that people are now ready and hungry for mind transformation (or at least I hope that is the case).

James Allen insisted upon the power of the individual to form his own character and to create his own happiness. Thought and character are one he writes. He believed that we become spiritually rich, when we discover the adventure within and when we are conscious of the oneness of all life.

I will post more about these great men later. Meanwhile, if you get a chance to read their books, it will be the best thing you can do for yourself.

Happy Love day

Happy Valentine to my inspirational family, and to all of you who have been visiting me here.

Love in Brain or Head?

Since it's a Valentine time, here are three interesting links to some research studies regarding Love and Brain:

Love Is All in Your Head -- Or Is It in Your Genes?
Legend has it that when Napoleon Bonaparte wrote Josephine to arrange a love tryst, he said, "I'm coming home -- please don't wash." Recent research on the scientific basis of love suggests that the famous general may have been onto something that guaranteed his success in the bedroom as well as on the battlefield. Read on

Is it love or Mental illness? They're closer than you think.
Science is beginning to pay more attention to the chemical storm that romantic love can trigger in our brains. Recent studies of brain scans sow that being in love causes changes in the brain that are strikingly similar to serious health problems like drug addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder. More

Here's why love turns you around
As scientists claim, the arrow is dipped in phenylethylamine (PEA) — a brain chemical believed to have a role in causing sweaty palms, shaky knees and the restlessness associated with being in love. There are a whole range of neuro-transmitters whose complicated interplay adds up to romantic love, or so scientists would (rather unromantically) have us believe. Read hear.

No sleep means no new brain cells

Don't miss on your sleep or you loose your memory.

Missing out on sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new cells, a study has suggested. The work on rats, by a team from Princeton University found a lack of sleep affected the hippocampus, a brain region involved in forming memories.

Read the whole article here.

Death is a fact of life, but it is not Truth

Probably no subject warrants more mental attention in the lives of men and women than the subject of death. It is the one great mystery, oddly enough, of life. An understanding of death seems essential to one's peace of mind, yet how can one understand that which he cannot comprehend and which no one has experienced and returned to tell complete details.

Physical death is something that takes place in our present consciousness. No one, no matter how holy, is exempt. But it will not always be this way. Perfection is in my future and it is in your future. We are moving in that direction. We are moving toward conscious oneness with the our creator.

~ Thomas E. Witherspoon
From: The peace that passes all misunderstanding



Whoever brought me here
will have to take me home.
~ Rumi

Does God Have A Hero?

When you close
your eyes
and see God
within,
You are God's Hero.

When you open your eyes
and see God in everyone,
You are God's Hero.

When you let anger pass you by,
with a smile
upon your lips,
You are God's Hero.

When you hold love
in your heart
and peace within
your mind,
You are God's Hero.

When you look at somone
who is different,
and see only how you are alike,
You are God's Hero.

When you can see
beyond appearences
and have the wisdom
to see Gods truth
that we are all truly One,
Again,you are God's Hero.

When you know
that forgiveness is blessed
and forgive all,
No matter how large or small
that trespass against you,
You will be God's Hero.

When your desire to know God
is so great
that in desperation
you finally give up searching for Her
where She never has been found,
You will find Her
where She has always been,
Watching,
Waiting,
Within,
Ready to welcome
Her Hero Home.
~Poem by: Eric P. McCarty


I dedicate this poem to, William Wagner, my dear friend's son (20 years old), who passed away last night to start his new transition with God. He was a true God's hero.

Let the light in

Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen

Don't worry about being perfect...forgive yourself and let the love in.

Funny ziggy

Is our world an Illusion?

Can you find the hidden figures of Romeo and Juliet in this drawing of a forest sprite?

Every time, I visit this optical illusions's website , I wonder what if, the world we live in is some-kind of illusion? What if we are not seeing the real world? Illusions can provide a wonderful window into how the brain works. The question of "Reality" is one of the core issues of Philosophy and metaphysics, along with the Question of Truth and of Certainty. So how can one know what is real?

Check out this one

Do you see an old lady or a young woman? Your mind can only interpret one facial image at a time, but they are both there.

In the East, one of the metaphors of explaining reality and illusion is that of the rope and the snake. In the dark we may see a rope and mistake it for a snake. When there is enough light we realize that it was only a rope, and the snake disappears. It is only due to some kind of illusion that we see a world. Everything is in the mind.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Can the 700 Billionaires unite?

Winston Churchill once said socialism is the equal sharing of miseries whereas capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. After reading the following article, I think we are about to experience some serious blessings in the world! Assuming the billionaires' wealth will able to trickle down.

It took John D. Rockefeller 16 years to become a billionaire. Bill Gates did it in 10. Mike Dell in 5 years. And Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page became multibillionaires in their late 20s.
The collective worth of the world's 700-odd billionaires is now bumping $3 trillion. Their numbers grow by more than 100 new big ones a year. Some 50 countries now have them, including Kazakhstan and Iceland. In China, where the rule of business law is as ephemeral in the Wild East as it once was in the Wild West (as long as you keep your nose out of politics), there are already 30 billionaires.

Can you imagine, if only the 700 billionars unite, what kind of possibilites they can create in this world?

source: Arnaud de Borchgrave at UPI and Washington Times.