DESIGN YOUR DESTINY --- SHAPE YOUR FUTURE IN 12 EASY STEPS
by Guy Finley. Llewellyn Publications, 1995, 1999

    FORWARD

      Work with the principles in this book, apply the practices, study the insights, and embrace the exercises. Perceive them as though they can help you start your whole life over again --- on a higher and happier level!

      If you do this special "inner work," you will discover that designing your own destiny is the greatest pleasure on earth!

      Because once you know the secret --- which is really a demonstrable fact --- of how to choose in favor of what is really true, you also will know, forever, how to choose in favor of you! (by Ken Roberts, pxi-xvi)

        Inspirational quotes:

        "Great men are they who see
        that the spiritual is stronger than material force,
        that thoughts rule the world!

        by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

        Two roads diverged in a wood,
        and I, I took the one less traveled by,
        and that has made all the difference!

        by Robert Frost in "The Road Not Taken"

    PART 1 --- GETTING STARTED (p1)

      1) Why you should feel encouraged (p3-6)

        [1] First, as you proceed with the new LIFE LESSONS about winning the higher life, you may come to certain moments when you have a disquieting feeling that you do not understand WHAT you are doing or even WHY you are doing it! (p5)

        [2] Second, if you will simply PERSIST with your journey, you will pass right through the times of trial. Nothing can stop your sincere inquiry. (p5-6)

        [3] Third, the LIGHT from one small moment of honest self-inquiry is more powerful than the accumulated darkness of a million years of self-doubt! (p6)

        Special Summary --- All uncertainty is life's special invitatiion to enter the mystery of the ever-new --- and once within this timeless world to discover yourself there as its keeper! (p6)

      2) A special invitation to be one of the few (p7-10)

        Special Summary --- To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself!

        To be yourself takes no special understanding, only a willingness to see yourself as you really are! (p10)

      3) Design your destiny! (p11-18)

        [1] What is being? (p11-12)

        [2] What gives something its nature? (p12-17)

        [3] Special comment --- For extra benefits, read the above section over --- at least once again, or until you know you are beginning to understand the new concepts, since they are based in "reality," which is the same as saying they are accessible to anyone who wills to see them! (p17-18)

        Special Summary --- The great power in true self-awareness is that nothing can come into it without its complete character being revealed upon its entrance! (p18)

      4) Taking the "high road" that leads to "self-rule" (p19-21)

        Special Summary --- There is no such thing as a wasted step when your final destination is self-transformation! (p21)

    PART 2 --- HOW TO DESIGN YOUR DESTINY (p25-83)

      5) STEP 1--- Get one thing done! (p25-31)

        Special Summary --- The most beautiful tapestry in the world begins and ends with but one of a hundred-thousand threads! (p31)

        [1] Special insight --- Get one thing done, no matter how hard the whole task appears to be, and then take that step again! (p25)

        [2] The road before you (26-28)

        [3] Choosing your new direction (p28-29)

        [4] Your "higher destiny" --- the main lesson here is that SUCCESS only become IMPOSSIBLE when you try to deal with what is NOT in your power to control!

        Thus YOU DO NOT NEED POWER to deal with what has been defeating you, but only the "higher understanding" that it takes to consciously delete it from your inner life! You have the power now to DELETE ANY NEGATIVE THOUGHT OR FEELING from your consciousness! You can start using that power NOW! (p30)

        Special Summary --- The most beautiful tapestry in the world begins and ends with but one of a hundred thousand threads! (p31)

      6) STEP 2 --- Take the "conscious risk" (p33-40)

        [1] Special Insight =

        Special Summary --- True strength is the flower of wisdom, but its seed is action! (p40)

      7) STEP 3 --- Cancel "self-wrecking" resentments (p41-45)

        Special Summary --- Learn to ask for a happy, new life by refusing to relive what has been tearing at you (p45)

      8) STEP 4 --- Step out of the rush (p47-52)

      9) STEP 5 --- Refuse to be self-compromising (p53-58)

      10) STEP 6 --- Take the step that you are sure you cannot take! (p59-64)

      11) STEP 7 --- Break out of the blame game (p65-70)

      12) STEP 8 ---Erase those fearful feelings (p71-76)

      13) STEP 9 --- Release and relax yourself (p77-84)

      14) STEP 10 --- Stop the secret "self-sabotage" (p85-90)

      15) STEP 11 --- Go quiet! (p91-99)

    PART 3 --- SUCCESS THROUGH HIGHER SELF-STUDIES (p103-170)

      16) STEP 12 --- Five practices to complete freedom from stress (p103-139)

      17) Principles and practices for winning the "higher life" (p141-166)

      18) Set your sights on "self-liberation" (p167-170)

    RECOMMENDED READING --- Five books listed by Guy Finley! (p171-175)

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