At times, we all need guidance in our lives. This book awakens us to what is most important: the ultimate power inherent within us, the way our words and thoughts create our life, and how we each heal ourselves to perfect health. Reading even a few lines can fill your heart with hope and light.

When your heart is troubled, when you do not know which way to turn, open this book and read a few lines. Chances are that you will find the words that are just right for you at that time.

The book focuses on important areas such as overcoming stress, fears, and pain, work and opportunity, aging, life, and death, and relationships between parents and children. Its eighteen chapters are grouped into five main parts: (1) You Can Utilize Your Unlimited Energy to the Fullest, (2) You Can Improve All Relationships in Your Life, (3) You Can Overcome Life’s Difficulties, (4) You Can Live Your Life in Love, Happiness, Forgiveness, and Harmony, and (5) You Can Uncover Your True Self and Accomplish Your Divine Missions.

The Golden Key to Happiness was described by Aikido 2nd Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba as ‘a must book for everyone who is training in Aikido.’ Perhaps we could also describe it as required reading for anyone who is striving to make the most of life.

Masami Saionji is the leader of the world peace prayer movement initiated by her adoptive father, Masahisa Goi, in 1955. She heads several harmony-oriented organizations working throughout the world.

Descended from the Royal Ryuku Family of Okinawa, Ms. Saionji was educated in the United States as well as Tokyo. She attended Michigan State and Stanford Universities. She and her husband, a prime minister’s great – grandson, have three daughters.

For three years Ms. Saionji wrote a column, ‘Daily Guidance,’ for a Japanese magazine. The Golden Key to Happiness grew out of those columns.

The Golden Key to Happiness is the first of her books to be published in English, followed by Infinite Happiness and You are the Universe. For more information see Masami Saionji’s home page at GratitudeBooks.com.

The universe is filled with unlimited power. This same unlimited power is in all human beings. The purpose of life is to prove that unlimited power, unlimited love, unlimited wisdom, unlimited richness, unlimited potential, and unlimited health are inherent in the self by bringing them forth one by one and expressing them through your existence.

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I would like to tell you: You have the power to overcome your problem no matter what happens. Use it. Go ahead and call forth that power. Try your best to do so. No matter how complex and difficult the problem may seem, it is really simple and easy if you go to its roots. There is nothing that cannot be solved. Your fear and insecurity only enlarge your problem.

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Effort is the only effective way to draw forth the unlimited potential given equally to every human being. Through making efforts, human beings can claim the endless potential that is already given them. If you spend the whole day without making effort, your endless potential will sleep forever. It’s crucial to wake as quickly as possible. Through your awakening, the environment in which you have lived will quickly be transformed, and a wonderful world will start being built around you.

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"What is impossible today will be possible tomorrow–or I will make it possible." This is what you should firmly repeat to yourself many times.

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You must never forget that every human being has latent, unconquerable power to repel any circumstance, any fate. If you succumb to your environment and your fate, that’ll be the end. Nothing new will be born from your state of resignation. Constantly revive your power to overturn unwanted circumstances.

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Every person has the power to please others. Every person has the power to make others happy and enrich them. Every person has the power to encourage others. Most, however, let this power sleep in the deepest recesses of their being, without ever trying to awaken it.

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You must not let the power that you have sleep forever. In order not to let it sleep, purposely undertake a new challenge now. Lessons, sports, work–anything will do. Or strengthen your efforts in what you are already doing so that you can do much better than before. When you put this into practice, you’ll be surprised to find that you still have abundant power in store. The more energy you use, the more energy will spring forth with overwhelming power.

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When you have absolute faith in your hidden power, your talent will be demonstrated. The first step, when facing a job you have to do or a difficulty you have to solve, is to believe that you can definitely handle this task. Have total faith in your power. In this way you’ll be able to accomplish any task, however difficult.