Heavenly Wisdom: Talent, Imagination, Creativity and Wisdom

© 2013 by Dragan P. Bogunovic. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/01/2013

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Talent

Chapter 2 Imagination

Chapter 3 Creativity

Chapter 4 Wisdom

Conclusion

References

To Him who made me glad through Thy work;

I will triumph in Thy works of Thy hands.

How great are Thy works!

And Thy thoughts are very deep

(Ps. 92:4-5).

Foreword

I have known I wanted to be a physician since fifth grade. Dr. Lily Bogunovic, MD, a fourth-year resident, is passionate about her chosen profession. Having grown up on a farm in southeast Wisconsin, Dr. Bogunovic recalls working in her grandfather’s medical clinic throughout high school and college breaks.

He was a gynecologist in Yugoslavia before moving to Wisconsin and opening up a family practice, she said. I used to go with him on early morning rounds in small Milwaukee hospitals when I was younger, and I knew I wanted to go to medical school.

Dr. Bogunovic left her rural roots and graduated first from Cornell University and then from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. As she debated a medical specialty, she blended her interest in surgery with a love of sports and the outdoors.

Orthopedics is a perfect fit because I like working with relatively healthy, active patients, she said. I was very active when I was a kid, starting out with speed skating, downhill skiing, and rugby.

This is what encouraged me to write this book.

Preface

When I close my eyes, I am able to visualize all of humanity as one solid and united body under the guidance of the One who was and still is the greatest Creator.

I was born on June 12, 1930, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from my mother, Danica, and my father, Petar. I graduated from medical school in Belgrade in 1958. I spent one year in the army as a mandatory medical army doctor.

For three years I practiced as a family physician in a small town and later moved to be a resident in Obi-Gin in a large city called Uzice. As a specialist, I practiced until 1969, when I was sent to the United States for further medical advancement. After three days in this country, I decided never to return to my old country.

In 1970, I passed the necessary requirements, and after one year as a resident in St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I opened my own practice as a family physician. I became board certified in 1977, and in 1978 I became a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

I worked hard, and my life was so good in my new, welcoming country.

However, happiness never lasts forever. When I lost my son Boris in a car accident, my life completely changed from one of happiness to one of greatest possible sorrow.

I could not find peace until the moment I turned to my Savior in prayer and daily readings of His Holy Book. That brought a peace and tranquility to my life that allowed me to do my professional work and gave me time for my spiritual devotion.

The idea for writing this book started after I retired from my work of fifty years to become a doctor to only one patient, my wife, who developed a medical problem we call dementia. At this time, I began to meditate on my life and the lives of many relatives, as well as a great number of my good and faithful patients.

It became obvious to me that every person’s childhood is shaped by his or her family, but only with a loving and caring family can a child go on to achieve his or her ultimate destiny.

It also became very clear to me that a person’s ability to achieve his or her destiny in life is not just supported by a loving and caring family but also by a good and caring school and later by a protective society.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

—Dietrich Bonheoffer

Everything that transpires in the family, schools, and society affects a child’s ability to achieve his or her destiny, which is already predicted in written word for every newborn child.

I choose the heart as a place of love even though some may relate that process to the human brain and known human brain synapses. I have meditated on my family history and other well-known cases from human history and have read many wise aphorisms from powerful and successful people I call modern prophets. Throughout this book, I have connected them with the heavenly wisdom that says, I created man in my image and my likeness to look like the Great Creator and to act like the Great Creator. As a result of that creative power, it is written that you must be perfect as your heavenly Great Creator is perfect, for all those who enter into heaven abide according to God’s will (Matt. 7:21).

A person’s entire life and future starts with and depends on early life in a loving family in which everyone loves one another and respects one another’s decisions without pressure.

Life in a loving family is the foundation upon which people build their futures according to their given power and talent.

That is the reason we all must look, observe, and understand this important process—so that we can improve the future of every child born into our society.

All the successful and prophetic messengers quoted at the beginning of each section in this book lived their lives by example and expressed their wise sentences for present and coming generations to follow in the right life direction. That is what we call secular religion, which combines all colors, all languages, and all ethnicities with many different religious practices to form one solid, united earthly practice according to heavenly wisdom.

—Dr. Dragan P. Bogunovic, MD, FAAFP

Acknowledgments

My deepest gratitude to my friend and advisor Mr. Shaun R. Williams, LUTCF, for his unselfish help and contribution in making this book a reality.

To my dearest granddaughter Aleksandra Bogunovic, who drew that magnificent picture while she was still in high school before she entered art school in Baltimore.

Chapter 1

TALENT

In the Beginning

Everything that exists in this world has its own beginning. Every birth begins with its own purpose.

In the beginning, God created heaven and Earth, and each has its own purpose to fulfill. Then God created man in His image and likeness with a main purpose: to look like God and act like God for His glory (Isa. 43:7).

We must now ask the following question: how is it possible that a mere man may look like God and act like God? God created man in His image to serve His purpose. Yes, man was created to be both God’s image and glory, resembling the Father, reflecting His quality, and conducting himself in order to reflect the glory of God.

Our God is our first and greatest Creator. He created heaven and Earth, and He created man to live upon Planet Earth, do His will, and glorify His holy name by being a creator himself.

Even though every newborn is born naked, each is clothed with love, which is the powerful spirit of love that gives talent for powerful creative work that each must use for the rest for his or her life in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Mark 9:37, 10:14-16).

Just as heaven and Earth have their own beginnings, their own births, man also has his own birth, his own beginning. At the same time, every good idea that is born in the human mind has its own beginning, its own birth, as written in Matthew 7:21: not everyone born shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of our Father, who is in heaven. My idea to write this book was born for the same heavenly purpose: to look like God and act like God so that I might fulfill His purpose and enter His Kingdom by doing His will according to His Word as the Word of truth.

This is all confirmed in 1 John 2:17, which says one who does the will of the Father will abide forever.

However, our conclusion must be that the will of the Father is for man to be the same as Him—to be a creator and to continue the work that was started so long ago on the very first day of creation.

For that reason, the heart of every person born upon this Earth is well equipped with the powerful spirit of love, which is the well-known given talent to be according to that given grace to look like the Father and act like the Father for the Father’s glory. That is each person’s life direction, life purpose, and destiny—each individual’s fate.

Talent is the perfect gift, which needs to be developed into a powerful skill. Talent is your personal badge that shows you were born to be someone who is going to become something according to what is written in your talent. To develop into one who is born to be takes long, hard work, and it takes even more hard work to go from one who is born to be to one who is to become something according to his or her destiny.

All things are decided by fate; it was known a long time ago what each man would be. So there is no use arguing with God about your destiny (Eccles. 6:10).

That is your free gift. That is your given talent. That is your destiny, to do God’s will in order to be able to enter the Kingdom of God (Matt. 7:21). You will do what is given to you and look like the Father and act like the Father for His Glory.

That is the beginning for each of us. That is a new birth. It is a new idea that starts as a new beginning, and it is my reason for writing this book.

We are all born into this world as flesh. We arrive naked. Our spiritual power is granted with the powerful spirit of love, which presents each of us with our given talent, which determines our fate to become what we are born to be. Talent is the skill we are given in order to accomplish our life purpose.

However, though talent is the skill we need to achieve our life purpose and enter heaven, it takes hard work that must be supported by the powerful spirit of creation. The spirit of creation communicates beneficial messages to us by way of mental pictures or silent whistling, which we all come to Earth ready to receive. Then through our natural power of discovery, which is part of what we call creativity, we immediately start to perceive and discern our new world from the first day of our lives.

That is our beginning as simple flesh. The powerful spirit of love, given talent, and the real spirit of creation guide us from the first day of our lives in the act of creativity, as we are all born in our God’s image and likeness to look like God and act like God, who is a clear picture of creative presentation (Gen. 1:26-28; Exod. 31:1-7).

Doing these things, we are doing God’s will and therefore are able to fulfill our given life purpose. However, if we lose that given power of talent and powerful creative work, we may have second chance to be born again and recover them. Read John 3:3.

Your success depends on your life in society, the power of society, and the willingness of society to do its job to revive you and help you to be born again with that power, which was planted in you long before you were born.

This entire concept is based on the wise thoughts of many successful people throughout history who were born with given talent to be. Their talent became a powerful skill guided by the powerful spirit of creation, which enabled them to create new things—or in other words, to discover things that were created in first creation but not revealed to humanity—and build a better world for all, a world that will last forever like in first creation.

All writing is an act of Dadaism, which simply means beginners work, work that has been revealed to babes and not to the wise and intellectual. Each good thing a human being possesses or accomplishes is something that was given to him or her by God so that no one may boast (Eph. 2:8-10; Matt. 10:20).

The origin of Dadaism is based on the first word from the lips of a newborn: dada. It is intended for the entire world—which represents differences in ethnicity, color, language, and religion—to be one with God the Father in heaven and to become one world as it was in the beginning. The goal is for humanity to be united. Even though people are all different and unique, at the same time they are all complementary and depend on each other to work as one. To become all together united as one (1 Cor. 1:10).

With that statement, we may conclude that in order for us to receive the best support, it is important to obey God’s counsel and walk His way (Ps. 81:13), obeying His righteous Word so that it becomes a light on our path (Ps. 81:11-12).

Those who disobey God’s given gift, which is the powerful spirit of love called talent, will walk the rest of their lives in darkness. Because God is light and in Him there is no darkness (1 John 1:5). However, those who walk according to their given talent will be called children of the most high. They will be called gods (Ps. 82:6).

That is the life wisdom you learn in your family. Read Proverbs 1:7-9. In these verses you will learn that the beginning of wisdom is fear of God. You learn from your parents how to love and that you should love all of humanity without a single exception.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

You learn to love your given grace, your given talent, as your life destiny, as your fate, as your life purpose. You also learn to live within the domain of your given grace without wandering around, all the while keeping in your heart the will of your Heavenly Father, who you never disobey. That is wisdom: to live and to love what is given to you and to avoid what is not.

That spirit of love led our ancestors when they created our country, which in a short time became the light of the entire world and a lighthouse for those who live in darkness. It is that same powerful spirit of love that incites people to come to our country and live by the same principles that were established by the Founding Fathers.

All of my writings in this book are a new beginning for me that started when I retired not only because of my medical problem but even more because of my wife’s sickness, which requires twenty-four-hour care. I could not send her to an assisted living facility; instead, I provide for her in her home, taking care of her by doing work that I had never before learned to do. It was not easy, but it was something new and something exciting in a realm of accomplishment I had never dreamed about.

The problem started after I served a good breakfast for my wife and me. There was a time vacuum in which I did nothing but stare at the TV, which I did not enjoy at any time. Because of that, I started writing even though I had never done it before. In that writing, I discovered something that has become my new life: whenever you decide to do something new, something creative, you are never alone; the ideas come from somewhere, spontaneously, like a silent whistling in your ear.

For those who work hard doing something new as a new beginning, there is a spiritual helper—the powerful spirit of creativity—to guide them and support them, giving them a boost to continue with more and more energy and with great desire and longing to accomplish whatever they started. In this same way—but not always with the same amount power as far as I am concerned—many others have done great things and all for the goodness of humanity.

That is the true beginning of this book, to which I have devoted with my entire soul for the goodness of all. That is my desire. That is my hope and my prayers.

With thanks for all the silent whistling that guided me day by day during my work (Matt. 10:27),

Antonio Bogdani

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

—Gail Sheehy

We all arrive in this world the natural way: as heavenly beings wrapped in earthly flesh to be welcomed into our new families. Our welcomes are warm and filled with love. We stay at our mothers’ and fathers’ sides, where we start learning about love, developing the habits of love, and practicing love by loving and being loved. The love we develop in our families will become the main power for our future life direction. Without love in our families, our life direction and our future become like a tree with no fruits.

We are fed well in order to start growing in the earthly power of our flesh. At the same time, we grow in the heavenly power we arrived with—creativity—through discovery and innovation. With our powerful heavenly spiritual eyes, we begin to act by perceiving things that are presented in our families, and we later develop the power of understanding as we discern our new world, which also is presented primarily in our families.

We continue to grow in our flesh, and at same time we continue to observe everything our new world presents to us as a foundation for our future lives. Our future lives will be built like a solid house. The foundation is the most important part; it will be a base for our future development, or our future growth.

In that period of our lives, we continue to observe until the moment we suddenly behold the thing that is written in our hearts. Our powerful spirit of love, our given talent—which we also arrived on Earth with—is hidden in our hearts. In that moment, the powerful love we developed in our families acts as a key to open our hearts and let our powerful spirit of love, our given talent, come out to take us in the right life direction. That is the moment we are born again to be someone according to our hearts.

Everyone born to be someone according to his or her heart goes through the process of education in order to become something. This prepares a person to take the next step of entering real life for further growth through practical experience.

At this stage, one who is now an adult is ready to take the highest step—living an active creative life. To live a creative life, one must experience discovery and innovation by journeying into the land of darkness and the unknown to start acting as our Great Creator did in first creation. By doing this, we bring to this world the fruits of our hard work and realize our given purpose—our personal duty to the world.

This is meant to be our life journey. Surrender of security is necessary, for only when we have taken each step—getting better and better and stronger and stronger the higher we climb—can we arrive at the top of life’s mountain having completed our given purpose and ready to return home to the place from which we came, bringing with us all those good fruits as proof that our lives were not in vain and that, like a hope once expressed by President Lincoln, the world is somewhat better than it was upon our arrival.

It is true that we all arrive as a part of nature, as a small seed that needs to be placed in fertile ground to grow. Then that seed must be watered and fed and pruned until it becomes a large tree with many good fruits.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

—John Lennon

That gift of love is our powerful spirit of love, our given grace, our given gift, our given talent, which needs to be nurtured in order to grow and mature according to the laws of nature.

That is the wisdom of growing: I said I am going to water my orchard; I intend to irrigate my flower beds. And see my conduit has grown into river, and my river has grown into a sea (Si: 24:31).

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

Life in creativity is the power in everyone to live, to discover, and to innovate.

—Dr. Dragan P. Bogunovic

Everyone is born to be someone and to become something according to his or her given talent. We are all born to be like Einstein, like Edison, like Columbus, and like many other great people according the power of our talent, which is the power of spiritual love. That given power our life direction, which is given according to our ability to do the best we can in order to cover the distance before life’s end comes.

We all live in space and time; the amount of time we have to achieve our life purpose before our lives expire is determined by our talent. For that reason, there is no time for procrastination.

First creation, in which everything was well established according to the will of the One who created it, is clearly recorded for our information in the book of Matthew, specifically Matthew 7:21. We are all created in the Great Creator’s image, to look like Him and act like Him in the continuous act of creativity called evolution, as the Creator’s will demands. Each person is born with talent, which is his or her task to fulfill before the end of his or her life. The world was created in a very simple and understandable way for everyone to comprehend, not just the wise and philosophical (Luke 10:21).

In addition, when someone works according to his or her talent and to the maximum of his or her ability, that person will never be alone in any act of creativity because the powerful spirit of creativity will be present at all times in his or her creative life. That creative power is also a gift and purpose from the Great Creator (Exod. 31:1-4).

This entire work is work called Dadaism, as in work from one who is a babe and a beginner. It must be understood in that way and not in any wise or philosophical way. If everything had been done according to God’s proposal from the first day of creation until today, we would have many Einsteins, Edisons, and Columbuses, and the entire world would look completely different from how it looks today.

There would be no more poverty, famine, or suffering; there would only be a happy and satisfied united humanity and one God, all the same, like living in paradise. Moreover, no one would remember the wise apple that changed this perfect world to a world of division, inequality, and suffering.

Everything begins in the family; it is where a newborn starts to perceive and discover his or her new world. A family’s love and care are main factors in that child’s future life. Early in life, the power of discovery works in every child. At that point, the child’s talent is still in the heart, waiting for the power of love to grow and mature so that he or she will be able to observe and discover what is in his or her heart and free it. When the child’s talent is free and ready to act, his or her soul is born to be someone according to that given talent, and the child falls in love with his or her life direction. It is similar to when a young man observes a young girl and feels love at first sight that turns into love for forever.

Imagine that the spirit of creativity is like flame; it will need fuel to keep burning and growing stronger. In the same way, a person’s talent needs education and practice to become strong enough for the journey into the land of darkness and the unknown. That is the life path from birth to the day of discovery and innovation for everyone who is born with a given talent that is opened on time so that he or she can start acting accordingly. That is God’s gift to us (1 Cor. 12:4; Exod. 28:1-4). That talent is our special skill.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

—Mencius

Everyone is born with a gift that is inherited and cannot be changed. We believe there is one Spirit and many different gifts. We all receive gifts, which need to be opened. Some people open their gifts on time, some open them late, and some never open them.

That gift is the powerful the spirit of love called talent. Talent is like a seed; it has to be placed in the ground to become a great tree. As it grows, the sapling must be fed, protected, and pruned in order to become a great tree that does its work in a perfect way. Talent, like a seed that turns into a tree, must be nurtured like a newborn child in order for it to become great and bring many good fruits for the goodness of all. Talent is also like a fingerprint; it endures everything and cannot be changed into anything else. It can only be nurtured and made perfect.

Once a person discovers his or her talent and is born to be someone, he or she has to be educated, first by developing learning knowledge and later by acting and working hard to gain learning experience. That talent cannot be changed or lost; it can only be made perfect. It must be developed and cared for like a great tree with many, many perfect fruits.

Talent can only be lost when it was never found; in this instance, it will stay in the small box that is hidden in a human’s heart and soul (Matt. 25:24-28).

An excellent example is the case of the seven astronauts who were chosen for the Mercury Space Program in 1960 written about in First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. All seven had been tested on the basis of experience, brainpower, and willpower. Each astronaut had more than 1,500 hours of experience as a jet pilot.

They were selected according to the same tests, but their performances were not the same. Some performed better than others. Those who performed better had a natural talent for that kind of work. In some cases, those who were simply educated in the testing areas did not do as well as the ones who possessed natural talent because the ones with natural talent had been well nurtured and groomed for that kind of difficult work. No talent can be learned. The astronauts with the best performance possessed the power of talent and were able to filter through all the options in every situation they encountered to make the proper decision.

Every talent, in order to become active in every living soul, must be opened and fueled by the power of love. That chosen life direction, which is determined by the written words in everyone’s heart, must be learned in the family as an initial step toward a person’s future life, which is his or her destiny.

However, there is something more in a child’s heart, and it burns like a powerful flame. It is the powerful spirit of creation, the need to create, discover, and innovate. That is something every child has—a great desire and longing to do creative work in order to bring more power to humanity and better lives to all.

That powerful flame of the spirit of creation should never be quenched; it should be fed regularly like a burning lamp. This responsibility lies in the hands of families and society; it is the most important kind of nurturing every child born upon this Earth needs. Wisdom, which should be preserved in everyone, is to keep our hearts like the hearts of children.

A child’s talent is the foundation for all future activities, such as his or her future empathy and ability to feel every situation with great prudency. That will build the child’s mental filter (or the child’s talent or spirit of love).

With that powerful groundwork, that given talent, that powerful spirit of creation, the powerful flame in a child’s heart will burn with great desire to do the work that has been given to each of us—the task to create and fulfill our life purpose in the land of darkness and the unknown in order to bring light so that it shines as it shined in the time of first creation.

Quench not your spirit (1 Thess. 5:19). No one will enter into the Kingdom of God unless has a heart of the child (Matt. 18:3). That all presents the will of our heavenly Father (Matt. 7:21).

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

A career is born in public, talent in privacy.

—Marilyn Monroe

Everyone is born with talent. It is like a small seed placed in a small box in a person’s heart. Like every seed that comes in a small box or a small package, talent has to be opened and placed in fertile ground—the human body. In the same way that a seed has to be in the right kind of ground, the talent must be in the right body.

However, human talent is not physical like an earthly seed; it is spiritual. It is the powerful spirit of love, which is given to each of us as a special gift for a special activity. When the time is right and we observe the activities that match our seeds, the talent steps out of its box and becomes an object of love for the rest of our lives. In time, the seed of talent will become a large tree, which will need feeding and pruning to grow well and bear many good fruits.

The feeding process starts early in the life of a child who lives in a loving family in which love is a two-way street. Along with the love, the child also receives security and encouragement without any pressure or suggestions—only support for whatever that child has in his or her heart, which is love.

In a loving family, a child learns to love and be loved. This powerful spirit of love feeds the child’s main power—his or her talent—and helps him or her grow and choose the right life direction. The power of love supplies an abundance of encouragement and necessary energy for the child to do hard and determined work and to ultimately take over the duty that belonged to his or her parents.

Pruning is nothing more than a continuation of the practice of investigation, discovery, and understanding that started the first day of the child’s life. It is a learning experience in which the child is both the pupil and the teacher. As a part of this process, the child becomes familiar with his or her surroundings and learns to discern how all things work together.

As these two needs are met, each person’s seed becomes a great tree and enables that person to use his or her talent to go out into the world and build a famous career.

I have also become a tree with some good fruits, not so big and not so famous but happy all the same as I wait for my natural end.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

P.S. Every talent is born in the privacy of a loving family and becomes active in public. A man is known by his action; a good man lives godly life and an evil one lives an evil life (Prov. 21:8).

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their grave obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

—Sydney Smith

Everyone who is born upon this Earth is born into one great truth: everyone has talent. Some people possess one talent, and some possess more. Every talent has been given as a spiritual gift, placed in a small box, and hidden in our hearts. It is of utmost importance that everyone has an opportunity to open that box and let his or her talent out.

From the very first day of life, every child starts to investigate and discover what is going on around him or her by perceiving and discerning until the right time comes and that child encounters the thing that is written in his or her heart. For example, see Lily’s statement in the foreword of this book.

That is the moment of love at first sight. It is true and possible because talent is the powerful spirit of love. Talent, as a power of love, takes over a child’s life by choosing his or her right life direction. From the beginning of life until later, the power of that talent helps support, energize, and encourage the child all the way up to his or her last day.

That is driven by the power of discovery, which starts on the first day and stops on the last, and nothing in between will overcome that power of love, which is also power that gives courage. Without talent, there is no chance for success because talent (as a great power of love) is the source of all wisdom.

Along with talent comes the spirit of courage. Talent becomes power after it is well educated. This education enables one who is born to be someone to become something through hard work according to the written words in his or her heart. Through hard work, every talent gains experience and every person develops the right habit of having a courageous heart, a heart full of love. From that powerful heart emerges a great desire and longing to work hard, perform one’s given task, and fulfill one’s life purpose.

Only hearts that never open result in lost talent. Once lost, that talent will never be recovered. Talent is spirit; spirit is faith, hope, and love, and love is the greatest of all.

Without talent, there is no love, and without love, no matter what a person does, there are no courageous acts. Courage is habit forming, and it comes and grows with love and upon love, because courage also comes from love. We must learn that God gives talent to each of us and courage along with it so that we may realize the life purpose God has given to us. Look at what God gave to his people in Deuteronomy 33:6-25. Alternatively, it is written, Be strong and courageous (Josh. 1:6).

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

—Hugh Downs

Every person goes through life expressing his or her feelings, which constantly change in each different life situation. Our feelings are determined by the present circumstances, which create pleasant or unpleasant feelings in our souls. One of these emotional expressions is happiness, which is the culmination of personal emotion. Some people believe that a person loves his or her work because the work makes that person happy. However, it is not happiness that causes us to love work; on the contrary, it a person’s love of the work that makes him or her happy. That person approaches work with a good attitude that is a result of love from his or her heart. Work that is founded on the basis of a human’s heart, a human’s love, a human’s talent (which is the powerful spirit of love) provides a pleasant attitude toward working.

For every human soul, a positive attitude has already been established in the heart, where the power of love is located. It is called talent; it is a predestination, a precious gift. Everyone comes into this world already prepared to be someone according to the given words in his or her heart called talent.

It is only a question of when a person opens his or her heart and lets that talent come out to provide life direction, purpose, and destiny. With it will come a good attitude that will be present from the first day the heart opens until the last day of a person’s life. That is a person’s real attitude; it comes from the love in his or her heart.

Every person’s vocation and attitude toward work are predestined. Positive attitude is the one and only reason that work based on a person’s talent and supported by good attitude will be finished in time, before the end of that his or her life and as a complete achievement of his or her given life purpose.

My one and only talent was to be a medical doctor, and it provided a powerful attitude that made it hard for me to wait each morning before starting to do what was in my heart.

God has given me a cheerful heart, and I am serving Him with a happy attitude. Real attitude comes from a cheerful heart.

When a man is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong; when he is cheerful, everything seems right (Prov. 15:15).

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

—Grace Murray Hopper

Like every ship has its own purpose, every human has his or her own purpose and direction in life. Even though our purposes and directions are all different, we have to work together in unity and harmony to achieve the best performance. Like a nail and a hammer, humans are completely different, but one without the other does not work. They belong with one another for the goodness of their existence.

Every human is unique, and everyone is born with his or her own talent to perform alongside other people in unity and harmony for the good of all. You cannot keep people at home; they all must complete the work they were born to do. That is the essence of life—all those different things for different purposes working together in unity and resulting in joy, satisfaction, and happiness.

A ship in port is no ship at all; so it is true for the rest of us. In the same way, men with their purposes (which are determined by their talents) should not be kept safe in their houses but allowed to go out into the world to do what they are born to be.

All present progress is not only for one living soul but for all of humanity. Without progress, there is no living and no real life because all the people who stay in their human ports throughout their lives amount to nothing but decadence and lives that are lost forever. Like every ship that stays in the port, those people will decompose, never seeing action, never living the lives that were purposed for them. Everything in life has its own purpose that needs to be accomplished.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

P.S. God has put you where you are for a purpose (Prov. 16:4).

A talent trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend.

—Lisa Edmondson

Human talent is like a small seed that needs many years to develop into a large tree able to bear many fruits.

Everyone is born with that seed, which calls one to be someone and after many years of education, hard work, and practice to become something.

Like every seed needs to be fed and pruned as it grows, humans must study hard and be involved in long periods of practice before they can become somebody who is able to toot his or her trumpet in front of a packed theater and eventually become a legend.

That is the way one small seed grows into a mature tree and one who is a babe matures into an adult and becomes well prepared for life.

Between every babe and mature man stands a long journey of hard study and practice. Without feeding and pruning, there can be no legend.

I remember my talent to be a doctor of medicine, which required four years of elementary school, four years of middle school, four years of high school, six years of medical school, one year of interning, four years of specialty training, and one year of fellowship before I was finally able to become a doctor, ready to toot my trumpet for another fifty years of hard work. I did all of that because I did not wish to turn my back on my own talent. Yes, some went another way, but I did not wish to blow off my given gift, my talent.

That is all I plan to take with me on my way to my original home, where I belong.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

P.S. Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed (Prov. 12:24).

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

—Lee Holz

The quote above describes a complex equation, and many personal factors need to be taken into account for the success and accomplishment of planned work.

First, we need complete knowledge of what we are going to do. We learn that through our talent, which is a gift placed in a small box in every human’s heart, where the power of love abides. That talent needs to be opened, and when it is, what is written there will come out to do its work. Life in a loving family is essential for a child’s growth and for a child to learn to love and be loved. That loving family is the main factor that encourages a young child to open his or her talent and develop desire for that type of work. In other words, a loving family encourages that child to become what he or she already is. After the small box in the child’s heart is opened, the child is born again to be someone according to his or her own abilities and later to become something.

The second thing we need in order to do the right work is motivation to do things. Motivation is determined by the power of a child’s gift, also called talent. Talent is the ability a child is born with so that he or she can achieve his or her purpose. That determination is born the moment the small box is opened and the power of the child’s talent is revealed. This is the secret to motivating and preparing a child for his or her future life duty.

The third factor to be taken into account is that a child must discover his or her own power of love and longing. This happens the moment he or she becomes one who is born to be someone and starts actively practicing his or her given talent. In that moment, the child feels a sense of longing to accomplish his or her duty with good attitude and to finish what he or she has already started.

Those three factors are beneficial in every person’s life to be able to go through the entire process of working hard without any major difficulties. Every talent is given according to a person’s ability to carry out the inherent duty. Our entire lives are in the power of our given talent and our ability to reach the level of our given tasks. Man was created to live an orderly life directed and corrected with strong desire and discipline. Man was created free, but without strong discipline, there is no guarantee that we will become what we are meant to be.

Ability is what man is capable of doing. Every talent is given as a gift according to each person’s ability to determine what to do. Motivation is when man learns knowledge and experience. Attitude is an act of creativity, and the power of longing that stems from a person’s heart sustains everything along the way to a successful end.

Ready for duty and thankful,

Antonio Bogdani

P.S. Have the mental attitude the Lord had. That is obedience to finish our given tasks (Rom. 15:5).

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

—Cynthia Ozick

Everyone born into this world has to walk through his or her life. We have two options when choosing the way we should walk.

One way is in the direction of our talent, our given power of life, which provides our life direction. The other way is when a person lives by oneself as real orphan with no guide and no help. There is no talent in this cruel world upon which he or she can depend. Those are two completely opposite ways in which to live our lives.

People who walk directed by their talent, their power of love, have a hard and long walk, but that walk is not so stressful compared to the journey of those who walk without direction or talent.

Every day brings situations that may be pleasant or unpleasant. Each have a different and opposite effect on the human body.

Good and pleasant situations are more common when talent is your guide because you know where you are going. Those are relaxed days without stress even if they are difficult and long. Those are days that are followed with good ideas that affect our hearts in positive ways and give us pleasant feelings of accomplishment, which also affect our brains and minds in a positive way and produce positive electrical forces that affect the entire body. Those positive electrical forces have the power to leave expressions of good feelings upon our faces. We are all easy to recognize by our happy faces that simply radiate light. That is how Moses looked after his return from Mount Sinai.

On the other hand, days without purpose and guidance produce high levels of stress that also affect our hearts (the center of every emotion) and reflect on our brains and minds in negative ways, radiating negative electrical potential that can affect the entire body, especially our facial expressions, resulting in expressions of sadness or depression. Those emotional facial expressions have the power to leave permanent impressions on people’s faces, which ultimately speak for themselves about those people’s lives.

For that reason and for the well-being of the entire body, it is important that we all open our hearts and let our talent, through the power of love, guide us in the right life direction, resulting in positive and healthy effects on our bodies. Each face will speak for itself about that person’s life.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

P.S. The man who knows right from wrong and has good judgment and common sense is happier than the man who is immensely rich (Prov. 3:13).

All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop out talent.

—John Fitzgerald Kennedy

All is best when described in the words of our Creator.

The story I have in mind goes like this: Before a king left his country on a journey, he called his servants to him. He entrusted to some of them one talent. To others he entrusted two talents, and to the rest of them he entrusted five talents—all according to each servant’s ability.

Talent is the ability to take the right direction and do hard work. How hard the work will be will depend on the servant’s ability to sustain and endure the predicted distance related to the number of talents he or she has been given.

As humans, we are all born with talent. Some of us have more and some of us have fewer according to our abilities, which are predicted according to our willingness to work hard. The more talents that are given, the more work and difficulties should be expected.

Just as with talent and direction, there is also a certain distance to be covered. The more talents a person has, the more distance he or she must cover before his or her hard work is over. A person with more talents has more work to do and a larger distance to traverse.

We see this in our lives every day. When we look at talented people, we can see that they covered a great distance before their ends, and with more talents came longer distances and more difficulties. But there are also more rewards for those who are able to endure their entire life race and reach the end victorious. Everything that is relevant in our lives is already described in God’s Word about the king and his servants.

In addition, the quote above from John F. Kennedy is talking about our lives. Talent is our life direction, and hard work is our opportunity. A human’s talent is like a small seed that needs to be placed in a friendly, caring, and fertile field that will provide real opportunity for that talent to gain knowledge and experience. Only then can a human born to be someone and to become something achieve his or her life purpose—all according to that given seed, that free gift, that free grace called talent.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

P.S. O my son, be wise and guide your heart in God’s path (Prov. 23:19). Your talent is in your heart. Talent is your life direction, your vocational field of work, and your life purpose. Talent is your fate (Eccles. 6:10).

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

—George W. Bush.

All the words in the quote above make sense in the reality of our lives because of the liberty declared by our ancestors.

Freedom, which characterizes this country, is an essential element in creative work. Because of liberty, creativity as discovery and innovation is the force behind personal and private enterprise. It is the real engine that provides and stimulates every person’s initiative to build a better life for the entire country.

Every creative action is supported and saluted, and everyone who is ready to enter the world of creativity is fully encouraged.

There is only one requirement for people who are eager to become creative: they must first be born into loving and supporting families. Human development begins in a loving family, where pure love has the power to foster every child toward human progress. This process starts from the very first day of life to the day when the power of love that was developed in the child’s loving family acts as a key to open his or her heart, where the powerful spirit of love abides. Once the child’s heart is open, the power called talent is released and will guide the child in the right life direction. That is the moment a child becomes born again to be someone according to his or her heart.

That talent presents a natural power that must be cultivated in every case. It all starts in the family. The duty of a father and mother is to support, protect, secure, and respect every decision their child makes based on his or her talent and to never press their own ideas upon that child. They must understand what is in their child’s heart and provide support and encouragement of his or her new love, which is his or her given talent and life purpose.

For correct childhood development, parents’ understanding and education is vitally important. Every child born to be someone must enter an adequate education program to learn the necessary knowledge according to his or her talent so that the child will eventually be able to become what he or she was born to be.

However, during that period of time, all those who care for the child must also be educated and well-informed about the child’s natural power. They must teach the child to perceive and discern as one who is born with the power of discovery and innovation together with powerful spiritual eyes. These elements combined are a powerful flame that needs to be well fed during childhood and never allowed to go out.

Just as those activities must be encouraged at home, they should also be encouraged in every school and every society. That natural power of discovery and innovation should be kept burning brightly so that every child can actualize his or her potential.

It is well-known and accepted that every child is born an artist. That is based upon every child’s inherited power, which is a flame that should never be extinguished during his or her education, which is too common of an occurrence.

After a child completes his or her education and becomes one who is born to be someone, in the same way the family structure and school system have supported and encouraged the child without pressure, society must do the same in order to further develop the child so that he or she can enter into real acts of creativity. It is through these acts of creativity (as discovery and innovation) that we achieve goodness and success for the entire country. That is what will make every country in the world as great as America.

It all begins in the family, where the father and mother—even though they are different in every aspect of their beings—must work together as a team to support their child’s development. In order for every child to actualize his or her potential, that effort must then be continued later in the school system and society.

Human talent and the power of discovery are like seeds; they only need to be cultivated. Family structure, along with school and society, are responsible for America’s success, hard work, and creativity. This is only the beginning of understanding humans’ natural power.

That is certainly the heavenly wisdom on how to live the right way upon Planet Earth.

Don’t be conceited, sure of your own wisdom. Instead, trust and revere the Lord, and turn your back on evil; when you do that, then you will be given renewed health and vitality (Prov. 3:7-8).

We comprehend the Earth only when we have known heaven. Without the Spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

—Joseph Joubert

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

—Albert Einstein

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

—E. Kant

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

An actress must never lose her ego—without it she has no talent.

—Tom Lehrer

Everyone has talent; we are born with talent to help us achieve what we are meant to accomplish. All talents are different and presented to different humans so that they can achieve different things. Within these talents, there are differences in quality of performance as well as differences in power and capacity to work hard and endure all difficulties on the way to the end of their active lives.

In addition, the amount of power a person has is the result of the number of talents one receives. A person works according to his or her personal ability and level, which determines where he or she will stand in present society. How high a person’s power will be depends on the power of his or her talent or talents.

No one should ever lose control of his or her worth; no one should try to stand higher than where he or she belongs; and no one should go lower than where he or she belongs. A person should as stand high as his or her ego is high, according to the power of his or her talent or talents. What do you have that is not given to you (Eph. 2:8-9)?

Every talent is spiritual power—the power of love, which comes from a human’s heart. It is the power to choose the correct life direction and to guide and direct every person, whose standing is determined by how many talents he or she possesses.

If you possess one talent, your power will be worth one talent, and you will stand on that level. However, if you possess two talents, you will stand on those two talents, and your ego will be higher than the ego of the person who possesses only one. You will be higher and higher according to the number of talents in your possession.

The level upon which you stand will also affect your responsibility. Those who are given more talents will responsible for more; they will work harder, and a lot more is expected from them. If you have more than one talent, your work will have more responsibilities and more difficulties and will deserve more gratitude because the result of your work will bring more goodness for all.

With more talents, we have more responsibilities, more hard work, better results, and higher rewards (ego).

Because I am standing on one talent—this is only by my personal opinion, which may be wrong—my reward (ego) is so small that it is almost invisible.

Thankful Antonio Bogdani

P.S. Walk as you are and be who you are (Eph. 4:1). Have humility and reverence for the Lord and His gift (your talent) because before honor (reward) there is humility (Prov. 15:33). Be yourself according to your gift and your accomplishment will be achieved.

An idea can turn to dust or magic depending on the talent that rubs against it.

—William Bernbach

Ideas are the seeds of future creation. Those who possess the power of creation also have the power of imagination, which is to be able to receive a mental picture through powerful spiritual eyes as an initial idea to later be created into a new form.

Those people are real creators, real scientists. Their imaginations present the first basic ideas and later become blueprints formed by human talent—all well prepared for action. They have everything ready, and no experimenting is necessary. Experimenting is a privilege only of those who are not scientists but instead patent masters.

Only the right talent may benefit from a good idea. Only the right talent can turn the right idea into a real new form. Because there are so