Famous Vegetarians

Friends,

Check the list of famous vegetarian celebrities

 

Complete List,

·  Franz Kafka ·  Charlotte Bronte ·  Ralph Waldo Emerson ·  Henry David Thoreau ·  Sir Isaac Newton ·  Mahatma Gandhi	·  George Bernard Shaw ·  Leo Tolstoy ·  Mark Twain ·  H.G. Wells ·  Milton ·  Henry Ford	·  Leonardo Da Vinci ·  Charles Darwin ·  William Wordsworth ·  Thomas Edison ·  Plutarch ·  Pythagorus	·  Socrates ·  Nikola Tesla (Inventor) ·  Diogenes ·  Albert Schweitzer ·  Ovid ·  Voltaire
·  Vincent Van Gogh ·  Susan B. Anthony ·  Plato ·  Zoroaster ·  Martin Luther ·  Clara Barton	·  Elvis Costello ·  Dave Davies (Kinks) ·  Bob Dylan ·  Peter Gabriel ·  Joan Armatrading ·  Davey Havok (AFI)	·  Moby ·  Siouxsie Sioux ·  Joe Jackson ·  Billy Idol ·  Kate Bush ·  Chrissie Hynde	·  Brad Pitt ·  Alec Baldwin ·  Pamela Anderson ·  Steve Martin ·  Christie Brinkley ·  Cathy Dennis
·  Desmond Howard ·  Edwin Moses ·  Martina Navratilova ·  Kathy Johnson (1980 Gymnast of Year) ·  Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder)	·  Alicia Silverstone ·  Eric Stolz ·  Jennie Garth ·  Liv Tyler ·  Dennis Weaver ·  Michael J. Fox	·  Jerry Seinfeld ·  Brigitte Bardot ·  Dustin Hoffman ·  Virginia Madsen ·  Anthony Perkins ·  Woody Harrelson	·  David Duchovny ·  Richard Gere ·  Natalie Portman ·  Ricki Lake ·  Ted Danson ·  William Shatner
·  Tommy LaRussa ·  Anthony Peeler (NBA) ·  Bill Walton (NBA) ·  Robert Parish (NBA) ·  Billie Jean King ·  Joe Namath	·  Peter Buck (REM) ·  Martin Gore (Depeche) ·  Fiona Apple ·  Sinead O'Connor ·  Boy George ·  Steve Howe (Yes)	·  Scott Adams (Dilbert) ·  Clive Barker ·  Berke Breathed (Bloom County comic strip) ·  Richard Bach ·  Henry Heimlich M.D.	·  Donnie LaLonde (Light Heavyweight Champ) ·  Dave Scott (5x Ironman Triathlon winner) ·  Killer Kowalski ·  Jack LaLanne
·  k.d. Lang ·  Richard Thompson ·  Lene Lovich ·  Morrissey ·  Annie Lennox ·  Julian Cope	·  Lenny Kravitz ·  Prince (the symbol guy) ·  Captain Sensible ·  James (whole band) ·  Belinda Carlisle ·  Emmylou Harris	·  Joaquin Phoenix ·  River Phoenix ·  Candice Bergen ·  Larry Hagman ·  Charlotte Ross ·  Olivia Newton John	·  Christy Turlington ·  Vanessa Williams ·  Rosanna Arquette ·  Kevin Eubanks (Leno) ·  Kim Basinger ·  Orlando Bloom
·  Johnny Marr (Smiths) ·  Meatloaf (?yes!) ·  Natalie Merchant ·  Wendy O' Williams ·  Shania Twain ·  Jeff Beck	·  John Lennon & Yoko Ono ·  Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney ·  Ringo Starr & Barbara Bach	·  Princess Diana ·  Todd Oldham (fashion designer) ·  Leonard Cohen ·  Steven Jobs (Apple) ·  Chelsea Clinton	·  Ziggy Marley ·  Kraftwerk (whole band) ·  Sarah McLachlan ·  Eddie Vedder ·  Robert Smith (Cure) ·  KRS-One
·  Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) ·  Grace Slick ·  Steve Vai ·  Paula Cole ·  Phil Collen (Def Leppard) ·  Rick Savage (Def Leppard)	·  Bob Barker (The Price is Right) ·  Tobey Maguire ·  Rhea Perlman (Cheers) ·  Sara Gilbert ·  Lisa Rinna (Melrose)	·  Captain & Tennille ·  Consolidated (the band) ·  Don McLean (wrote "American Pie" song) ·  Michael Bolton ·  Lisa Loeb	·  Marina Sirtis (Star Trek) ·  Mary Tyler Moore ·  Marilu Henner ·  Meredith Baxter ·  Peter Cushing ·  Reese Witherspoon
·  Don Imus ·  Peter Bogdanovich ·  Anthony Robbins (Motivational Coach) ·  Cesar Chavez (United Farm Workers)	·  Cassandra Peterson (the "Elvira" character) ·  Thora Birch (Ghost World creator) ·  Susannah Hoffs (from The Bangles)	·  Carter Beauford (DMB) ·  Boyd Tinsley (DMB) ·  Daniel Johns (Silverchair) ·  Bryan Adams ·  Andre 3000 (OutKast) ·  Steve Morse (Deep Purple)	·  Lisa Simpson & Apu ·  "Weird" Al Yankovic ·  Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) ·  Johnny Rotten ·  The Roots (whole band) ·  Minor Threat (whole band)
·  George Harrison (Beatles) ·  Jon Anderson (Yes) ·  Larry Mullen (U2) ·  Carl Lewis (Winner of 17 Gold Medals) ·  Erykah Badu	·  Bonnie Hunt ·  Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman) ·  Keenan Ivory Wayans ·  Linda Blair (Exorcist) ·  Drew Barrymore	·  Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) ·  Susan Powter ·  Traci Bingham (baywatch) ·  Milo Ventimiglia [GG] ·  Mike Farrell	·  RZA [Wu Tang] ·  Raekwon [Wu Tang] ·  Ghostface [WT] ·  Prodigy [Mobb Deep] ·  Russell Simmons ·  Spice Williams (stuntman)
·  Marv Levy (Buffalo Bills) ·  Gillian Anderson (X-Files) ·  Demi Moore	·  Betty White (Golden Girls) ·  Rue McClanahan (Golden Girls)	·  Jane Goodall ·  Dwight Yoakum ·  Naomi Watts	·  Michael Tsarion ·  Don Piraro (created Bizarro cartoon)

 

 

The Worlds Most Unusual Therapist

 

"Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients--without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate's chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person's illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.

When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane?

It didn't make any sense. It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story.

However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho 'oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn't let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more.

I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it's out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We're responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does. The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility.

His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist. He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.

"After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely," he told me. "Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed."

I was in awe.

"Not only that," he went on, "but the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed."

This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: "What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?"

"I was simply healing the part of me that created them," he said.

I didn't understand.

Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life - simply because it is in your life--is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.

Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life.

This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy--anything you experience and don't like--is up for you to heal. They don't exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to change them, you have to change you.

I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho 'oponopono means loving yourself. If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone--even a mentally ill criminal--you do it by healing you.

I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files?

"I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again," he explained.

That's it?

That's it.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world. Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message. This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method. I kept silently saying, "I'm sorry" and "I love you," I didn't say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.

Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology. I didn't even write him back. Yet, by saying "I love you," I somehow healed within me what was creating him.

I later attended a ho 'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

"What about the books that are already sold and out there?" I asked.

"They aren't out there," he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. "They are still in you."

In short, there is no out there.

It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves. Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there's only one place to look: inside you.

"When you look, do it with love." "

- Dr.Joe Vitale

 

Don Miguel Ruiz's "Toltech 4 Agrements" By Gary van Warmerdam ..........A must read by everyonE

Living the Four Agreements: A life changing Journey

In the best selling book The Four Agreements don Miguel Ruiz gives four principles to practice in order to create love and happiness in your life. Adopting and committing to these agreements is simple. Actually living and keeping these four agreements can be one of the hardest things you will ever do. It can also be one of he most life changing things you will ever do.

As you practice living these four practices your life will dramatically change. In the beginning these new habits will be challenging and you will lapse countless times. With practice these agreements become integrated into your being and every area of your life and become easy habits to keep.

The Four Agreements are:

1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

Understanding how to Integrate and Live the practices

Upon reading don Miguel’s wisdom many people have their eyes opened to a new possibility for living life. They get excited when they see the potential for happiness, love, and respect with themselves and their relationships. What they fail to see is the challenges and resistance the mind will have to living just one of the agreements. Don Miguel briefly mentions these challenges in his book, but people fixate on the four chapters with the agreements and seem to miss these other important points. This is often the set up for expectations that lead to disappointment and frustration.

Domestication

During our early life we began making agreements. Our parents rewarded us when we did what they wanted and they punished us when we didn’t. We also learned behaviors and habits in school, church, and from other adults and children on the playground. The tools of reward and punishment were often emotional and sometimes physical. The impact of other people’s opinions and reactions to us became a very strong force in the habits we created. In this process we created agreements in our mind of who we should be, what we shouldn’t be, who we were, and who we were not. Over time we learned to live our life based on the agreements in our own mind. We learned to live according to the agreements that came from the opinion of others. In this process of domestication it turns out that the choices we make and the life we live is more driven by the opinions we learned from others than one we would choose on our own.

Why Living the Four Agreements Is Such a Challenge

We have out of years of habit not paid attention to how we express our self. The responses that come out of our mouth are often automatic. They were learned from years of habit living by the agreements we learned. We do not consciously choose our words, or the emotion, tone, and attitude that we express.

Over years our mind has filled with beliefs that generate incessant thinking. In all that thinking we have many assumptions that we are not aware of. We even make the assumption that what we think is true. We imagine and assume what others think of us and how they will react. We also assume that the judgments and self criticisms we have are true. We have learned to make so many assumptions that we aren’t aware of. These assumptions are not the truth. These assumptions and the faith we put in them is just one way that we are not impeccable with our word.

Through our domestication we have also learned to take things personally. We assume that when someone has an opinion about us that their opinion is valid. We end up having an emotional reaction to what someone says because we assume it is true. We can also take personally our own opinions. We also take personally our own self judgments. These self judgments are nothing more than an assumption. Over years the mind has developed many habits of making assumptions and taking them personally.

Just because you adopt the Four Agreements doesn’t mean that all these habits in the mind will stop with that commitment.

When you decide to change your life and adopt the Four Agreements you are challenging the beliefs you learned and the habits you practiced since your childhood domestication.

Adopting the Four Agreements creates a conflict in the mind between expressing your self Impeccably with love and your existing fear based beliefs.

Avoiding Double Jeopardy

One of the hidden assumptions that people often make when adopting the Four Agreements is about time. Without awareness the mind makes the assumption that they should immediately be able to keep the Four Agreements 100% of the time. The mind completely ignores that there are already existing agreements and habits of taking things personally that have been in place for years.

With the expectation of the new agreement that we will not break any of the Four Agreements we are set up for failure. We have an emotional reaction and take something personally which feels bad. (but is completely normal part of our old habits) But then the inner judge reprimands us for failing to not take something personally. Now we feel twice as bad. The inner judge tells us that we failed and the voice of the victim in the mind accepts this proposal.

The result is that we are not only upset, but we also feel like a failure. If you just look at your emotional state at this point it will seem like things are getting worse instead of better. It can seem like attempting to keep the Four Agreements is causing more problems and making you feel worse.

If you are aware that you are judging your self for taking something personally it can get worse. Your inner judge might use that awareness to judge and reject your self for judging your self for taking something personally. In the beginning of this process the mitote of voices in your head are likely to use your new found awareness as material for self judgment.

Awakening

In actuality the problem is not that you adopted the Four Agreements. Nor is the problem that you are a failure. What is really happening is that you are having an awakening. You are waking up to how your mind makes assumptions, has emotional reactions, and is so quick to make self judgments. These realizations about the belief system in your mind are not usually pleasant but are part of an awakening. It is usually uncomfortable realization but through it your awareness is growing.

With some more awareness and practice you can move beyond this uncomfortable awakening about the mind. You will come to see that it is not You that is judging your self for failing. It is the inner judge. With practice you will see the ridiculous expectations and assumptions for what they are and not feel like a failure when you lapse in your journey to impeccability. This comes as you gain more awareness and gain more personal power over your agreements.

The Challenge of a Spiritual Warrior

Don Miguel refers to some of these challenges throughout the book. However, in the excitement of the Truth in what don Miguel writes, people often overlook where he points out that this endeavor is not easy. The agreements may be simple, but he never says they are easy to keep.

At the same time living the Four Agreements has taken me on the most rewarding and profound journey of happiness and fulfillment beyond anything I could have imagined. The hard work in the beginning is rewarded to me in every interaction every day of my life. This is a very big return for a small investment of time and effort.

Don Miguel refers to people who decide to adopt the Four Agreements and create love and happiness in their life Spiritual Warriors. It is Spiritual because it is about living your Life. It is also referred to as a war because you are challenging the old fear based beliefs in your mind. It will take more than a week and a half to break free of fear, the tyranny of the inner judge, and old emotional habits. There will be some battles lost along the way, but that is of minor concern in the longer term strategy of creating happiness in your life.

The Quest for Personal Freedom

The quest of a Spiritual Warrior is for Personal Freedom. Personal Freedom means freedom from fear, illusions, and the fear based beliefs in the mind. In essence it means to win the war over the beliefs in the mind. It is with Personal Freedom that we are free of the human condition of emotional suffering. Spiritual traditions around the world have their own names for this state of awareness including nirvana and heaven. It is a state that is simply described as living your life with unconditional love, gratitude, and respect, for your self, and for others.

The Opportunity

I’ve spent many years personally studying with don Miguel Ruiz. After my life and relationships were completely transformed I asked him if there was anything that I could do for him in return. He said, “If you want to, share with others what you have learned and how you live your life so they can be happy as well.”

That help has taken the form of material on my web sites, personal coaching guidance, online audio course in Self Mastery, and Spiritual Intensive Journeys. I am also working on a book about my experiences.

There are many practical actions you can take to speed up changing your life and live more impeccably In my years of study with don Miguel what he has written in his books is a small fraction of his teachings.

While don Miguel is no longer teaching, you can still learn the practices, process, wisdom and insights from those he trained.   You are invited to take advantage of the material in my web sites, my personal coaching services, and the workshops and Power Journeys I lead.

Gary van Warmerdam

 

Mandala!!!

 

Mandala

Mandala (Sanskrit: "circle-circumference" or "completion") is a spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. It helps one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises"

Ancient writings and artifacts (including certain monuments) make it clear that a cycle of 40 days was once carefully time tracked.

Pyramid Spiritual societies Movement carefully analysed this concept and started using this Mandala Dhyana Programmes right from its origin very carefully. Pyramid masters at various locations had conducted 41-days Mandala Dhyana Programmes and has helped many meditators to become masters. During this Mandala sessions the body system gets acquainted to the continuity and thereby receiving the every benefit of the meditation method.

For each and every CELL in  our body to understand the depth of Meditation, mandala period  dhyana is very important. Most of the deep level of unconscious portion of mind can be tracked and corrected in meditation during Mandala Dhyana. Astral travelling, Third eye experiences, Telepathy and many more spiritual experiences can be easily experienced during this period as the record says.Every centre and every meditation hall should start "Mandala Dhyana programmes" and get the maximum benefit out of Meditation is the message from Brahmarshi Patriji.

Pyramid spiritual societies Movement, a unique scientific and new age movement has grasped this concept of Mandala at its roots and has made this a scientific significance for the Pyramid Masters.