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    The Greatest Secret of All: Simple Steps to Abundance, Fulfillment, and a Life Well Lived
    The Greatest Secret of All: Simple Steps to Abundance, Fulfillment, and a Life Well Lived
    The Greatest Secret of All: Simple Steps to Abundance, Fulfillment, and a Life Well Lived
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    The Greatest Secret of All: Simple Steps to Abundance, Fulfillment, and a Life Well Lived

    By Marc Allen

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    The law of attraction — how to use the mental and physical abilities we were born with to create wealth and success — is wonderful to know, but many who have discovered this “secret” still lead miserable lives. The Greatest Secret of All clearly explains this law of manifestation but then takes it a quantum leap further, revealing what is truly important in life.

    We have what we need within us to do what we love, to be the people we dream of being, and to become completely fulfilled along the way — to become, as Abraham Maslow put it, self-actualized.

    We also have the capability, here and now, to create a world that works for everyone. In these pages, you will find the secret to a life of happiness, inner peace, ease, and fulfillment, and the secret that lets each of us contribute to making the world a better place for all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateOct 6, 2010
    ISBN9781577313496
    The Greatest Secret of All: Simple Steps to Abundance, Fulfillment, and a Life Well Lived
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    Marc Allen

    Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and speaker who studied Tantric Buddhism with a Tibetan teacher at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several important books and cofounder and publisher of New World Library, one of the most successful independent publishers in the United States. He lives in Northern California.

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    • 4/5
      Great read with a lot of repetition to underline the most important concepts and principles.
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      Simple but deep. The essence of life. Sometimes the most important things are the simplest.
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      Summary was well outlined and worded simply for easy understanding .
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      awesome book recommend to anyone selling Austin and knowledge !

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    The Greatest Secret of All - Marc Allen

    ALL

    INTRODUCTION

    How I first discovered the secret of manifestation, and then the greatest secret of all

    Somewhere along the many paths I’ve taken, it became obvious to me that every one of us is completely unique. Every one of us is an original, even a creative genius, in some way or ways. We all have a long and winding and absolutely original path, and each of us makes our discoveries in our own way.

    It can be helpful at times to hear another person’s story; what has worked for me just might work for you as well. Feel free to skim through this Introduction, if you wish. Find the words that grab your interest, and skip the rest.

    The core of this book is in Part One, Part Two, and the Summary. There, slow down and take in the words, especially in the Summary, which is just a few pages. You’ll notice that I return to the key points again and again, stating them in different ways. The repetition is important, in my opinion; it can take a long time for us to absorb this kind of life-altering information, and each time we hear it or read it, it sinks in a little deeper.

    Throughout the book, the essential points are in bold, centered. If you wish to quickly grasp the essence of this book, just read the key points.

    I’ll start with a bit of my story. Throughout my twenties and early thirties, I had the opposite of the Midas touch. Everything I touched fell apart. Worse yet, I was on an intense emotional roller coaster much of the time, with a variety of anxieties and periods of immobilizing depression.

    I dropped out of college to join a theater company that fell apart within a year. I joined another company, and that fell apart too after just a few months. I wandered to a Zen center and got kicked out for breaking the rules. I tried a back-to-the-land experiment that only lasted a few cold, wet months. I spent over three years at a Tibetan Buddhist center, working very hard, making no money at all, and not making much progress in my understanding of anything that helped improve my unsatisfactory life.

    I wandered around the spiritual smorgasbord of Berkeley, California, for a few years, living on almost nothing. I was fired as a busboy and dishwasher for being too slow. I was fired as a typesetter for not showing up on time. I had a rock band that lasted a few years before it broke up.

    THE DISCOVERY

    And then I turned thirty. I woke up in a state of shock, finally realizing I wasn’t a kid anymore. I had no job and no savings or any other assets except an old torn-up electric piano. I was scrounging (a word we used often) to come up with $65 every month for rent for my little studio apartment in a funky part of Oakland, California.

    That day changed my life, because I began to apply some ideas in some new ways, ideas that before had just been occasional floating thoughts, ephemeral and remote possibilities in my mind. I sat down and wrote on paper what became — for me, in my words — the first secret of manifestation:

    The first step to discovering the secret of manifestation is to write your ideal scene on paper, your dream life five years in the future. Begin with the end in mind, and keep it in mind.

    The day I turned thirty, I sat down and took a sheet of paper and wrote Ideal Scene at the top. I imagined everything had gone as well as I could possibly imagine, and somehow, over the next five years, I was able to create the ideal life for me. What would it look like? What would I do and have, and who would I be?

    I was surprised, even shocked in a strange way, at what came spilling out on paper. I imagined I had a publishing company, successfully publishing books and music, including my own books and music. Before I sat down and wrote out my ideal scene, I had absolutely no interest in business. I had never taken a business course. I had never written a book or recorded my music. The words that spilled out when I wrote my ideal scene surprised me as much as they were to surprise just about everyone else I knew.

    I imagined I wrote successful books and recorded beautiful music as well. I imagined I had a lovely white home on a hill in northern California, one of my favorite places on earth. I imagined I had a wonderfully loving relationship. I dared to imagine my ideal, so I imagined I had plenty of time for it all: creativity, a successful business, friends and family, and plenty of free time alone for myself as well.

    And I added something else that changed my life dramatically: When I dared to think of my ideal, the

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