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Автор Michael A. Singer
Copyright © 2015 by Michael A. Singer
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ISBN 9780804141109
eBook ISBN 9780804141116
eBook design adapted from printed book design by Amanda Dewey
Cover design by Fort & Jess Morphew
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Contents
Waking Up
The Premise
1. Not with a Shout—But with a Whisper
2. Getting to Know Me
3. The Pillars of Zen
4. Absolute Silence
5. From Absolute Peace to Absolute Turmoil
6. South of the Border
7. Disconnecting the Panic Button
8. Unexpected Inspiration
9. The Promised Land
10. Building a Sacred Hut
11. Get Thee to a Monastery
12. When the Disciple Is Ready, the Master Appears
The Great Experiment Begins
13. The Experiment of a Lifetime
14. Life Takes Charge
15. The Prince and the Pauper
16. Following the Invisible into the Unknown
17. My First Job Interview
18. Letting Go of the Rope
19. Acceptance, Acceptance, and More Acceptance
20. The Most Important Thing I Was Ever Asked to Do
From Solitude to Service
21. The Call of a Living Master
22. Shaktipat
23. Gainesville Hosts a Guru
24. The Temple Is Built
25. Opening the Heart Chakra
26. Get Thee to an Ashram
The Business of Surrender
27. A Company Is Born
28.
The Master Builder29. Community Banking
30. The Ever-Expanding Temple of the Universe
31. Metamorphosis of a Creature
Something Priceless Is Born
32. From the Personal Self to the Personal Computer
33. The Birth of The Medical Manager
34. The Early Programmers
35. Preparing for Launch
The Forces of Natural Growth
36. The Foundations of a Successful Business
37. The Industry Knocks on Our Door
38. The Temple Keeps Growing
When Dark Clouds Become Rainbows
39. A Touch of Magic
40. The Scary Messenger of Change
41. The Foundation Is Built for the Future
42. Meanwhile—Back at the Ranch
Embracing Explosive Expansion
43. The Medical Manager Sprouts Wings
44. Medical Manager Corporation—MMGR
45. Becoming CEO
47. Merging—But Not with the Universe
48. Building Rome in a Day
49. Hanging Out in Washington
Total Surrender
50. The Raid
51. Attorneys, Attorneys, and More Attorneys
52.
53. Preparing a Defense
54. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
55. Divine Intervention
56. Returning to the Beginning
Acknowledgments
In truth, life is really the author of this book. She is the one who manifested the flow of events that were so powerful and fascinating they demanded narration. But life needed me to put pen to paper if her greatness was to be memorialized. To that end, she sent exactly the right people at exactly the right time to bring
