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Daily Gratitude Newsletters
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Daily Gratitude Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 3 - April 2006
Putting Gratitude To Work For You
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The first principle in the Power of Gratitude is that we
live in a friendly Universe. I don't think I've written about
that before, but it's very important.
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"Designed So We Can Thrive"
"All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were
causationists. They believed that things went not by luck,
but by law."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At a news conference at the United Nations last month,
the 2006 Templeton Prize was awarded to John Barrow, a
distinguished cosmologist and professor of mathematics
at the University of Cambridge in England. The $1.4 million
prize is given each year to a living person to honor the
advancement of knowledge in spiritual matters.
I bet you didn't expect that, did you?
Spiritual matters? Scientists? Huh?
No, this is not some goofy attempt to peddle Intelligent
Design and disparage evolution. In the course of his career,
Barrow has tapped mathematics, physics and astronomy to
raise interesting questions about time, space and matter
to challenge both scientists and theologians to understand
the universe.
In 1986, Barrow co-authored "The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle", a ground breaking book that investigated
anthropic principles across physics, chemistry, cosmology,
astronomy, history and theology.
What is the "anthropic principle", you might ask? Well, it's
the principle, first proposed by a theoretical physicist, that
the universe seems specifically designed to support carbon
based life. If even small changes were introduced in any of
the various constants of science - like the force of an
electric charge, the attraction of gravity - the universe as we
know it would not exist. And neither would we.
Surprise, surprise - we live in a friendly universe! So what
does that mean for us?
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Look for a special story about nonresistence that features
one of the most courageous and inspiring people I know.
It's coming in about a week and it will touch your heart.
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In his acceptance speech, Barrow said, "Many of the
deepest and most engaging questions that we grapple
with about the nature of the universe have their origins
in our purely spiritual quest for meaning. The concept
of a lawful universe - with order that can be understood
and relied upon - emerged largely out of belief about the
nature of God. Out of these beliefs came confidence
that there was an unchanging order behind the
appearances that was worth studying."
Do you see the importance of that? It's not just that the
universe is friendly to carbon based life forms like us. The
universe is also logical and understandable by us, so we
can learn how it works and make our lives better. The
more we know, the more we thrive.
Some people still want to believe in chance and luck. If that
was how it worked, we'd be powerless, wouldn't we? How
could we improve our lives in a world of random chance?
No, like Emerson said, to be successful, we have to be
causationists. The universe works by law.
That's why the five steps in the Gratitude ebook work. They
are based on the laws, primarily cause and effect, that
govern our lives. What we think about, what we focus on,
grows. What we put out, comes back. Jesus said it comes
back ten-fold. So we find the good in everything. We bless
what we have. We forgive ourselves and others completely.
We cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
You didn't know that we had the anthropic principle to
thank for that, did you? The universe is friendly to us, and
to our desires.
Have a great month. I am very grateful for each and
every one of you carbon based life forms on this list!
Peace and love,
Wes
PS - Remember to go to dailygratitude.com and
give us your comments.
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© 2006 Wes Hopper. All rights reserved.
Feel free to pass the above in its entirety to
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