Few quotes by Sidney Sheldon - a) Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happend until you turn the page. b) "You have two choices. You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important."-

The Seven Spiritual Laws by Deepak Chopra 1) Everything is possible. We all have the gift of creating absolutely anything. There’s no limit to what we can do or be. 2) If you want to get something, give it. Always give with a happy heart. The greatest gift is feeling good. 3) When you make a choice, you change the future (karma). Your choices bring about changes. To make good choices, follow your heart. How do your choices make you feel? 4) Don’t say no —go with the flow. Create peace within by learning acceptance of what is outside our control. 5) Every time you wish or want, you plant a seed. Making your wish is like planting a seed and believing that it will grow. Let nature do the rest. 6) Be open to life and enjoy the journey. New ways and new ideas can lead to more happiness. 7) You are here for a reason. Your dharma is your purpose, path, or vision, the unique talent that you are here on Earth to share. Your dharma is your happiness

Time isn't demanding, although we all act as if the clock rules our existence. Time is meant to unfold according to your needs and wants. It will start to do that only if you give up the opposite belief-that time is in charge. ( Deepak Chopra)

There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ( Nelson Mandela)

All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world, to anticipate trends, to respond with speed and accuracy to any circumstance.This intelligence is cultivated by deeply immersing ourselves in a field of study and staying true to our inclination, no matter how unconventional our approach might seem to others. Through such intense immersion over many years we come to internalize and gain an intuitive feel for the complicated components of our field. When we fuse this intuitive feel with rational process, we expand our minds to the outer limits of our potential and are able to see into the secret core of life itself. We then come to have powers that approximate the instinctive force and speed of animals, but with the added reach that our human consciousness brings us. This power iswhat our brains were designed to attain, and we will be naturally led to this type of intelligence if we follow our inclinations to their ultimate ends.  

(Robert Greene)

Living in constant fear can kill you

I know many wealthy men who constantly live in fear of losing their profits. Even their blood pressure seems to rise and fall with the rise and fall of shares in the stock market. They fear taxes; they fear raids; they fear falling interest rates. It is not just money that makes a man rich. He who gives is richer than he who hoards his wealth, for the hoarder is under psychological pressure- constantly worried about losing what he has. Such a man is impoverished-regardless of how much he has.

When you give, you are alive. You experience an overflowing sense of abundance and joy.

( By J P Vaswani)

Sad Music evokes positive emotions

People like listening to sad music because it actually evokes positive emotions, according to a new study. Japanese researchers asked 44 volunteers, including both musicians and non-specialists, to listen to two pieces of sad music and one piece of happy music.

Each participant was required to use a set of keywords to rate both their perception of the music and their own emotional state. 

The sad pieces of music included Glinka's " La Separation" in F minor and Blumenfeld's Etude "Sur Mer" in G minor. The happy music piece was Granados's Allegro de Concierto in G major. To control for the "happy" effect of major key, they also played the minor-key pieces in major key, and vice versa.

The researchers said that sad music evoked contradictory emotions as participants felt sad music to be more tragic, less romantic, and less blithe than they felt.

( Source Times of India)