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Dedicated to You May The Secret bring you loveand joy for your entire existence. That is my intention for you, and for the world.

Foreword Acknowledgments The Secret Revealed The Secret Made Simple How to Use The Secret Powerful Processes The Secret to Money The Secret to Relationships The Secret to Health The Secret to the World The Secret to You The Secret to Life Biographies

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A yearago, my life had collapsed around me. I'd worked myself into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationships with my work colleagues and loved ones were in turmoil. Little did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the greatest gift. I'd been given a glimpse of a Great Secret—The Secret to life. The glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my daughterHayley. I began tracing The Secret back through history. I couldn't believe all the people who knew this. They were the greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, Einstein. Incredulous, I asked, "Why doesn't everyone know this?" A burning desire to share The Secret with the world consumed me, and I began searching for people alive today who knewThe Secret. One by one they began to emerge. I became a magnet: as I began to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me.
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When I discovered one teacher, that one would link to the next, in a perfect chain. If I was on the wrong track, something else would catch my attention, and through the diversion the next great teacher would appear. If I"accidentally" pressed the wrong link on an internet search, I would be led to a vital piece of information. In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back through the centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of the Secret. The vision of taking The Secret to the world in a film had become fixed in my mind, and over the following two months my film and television production team...