The Buck Stops with You!

We are here on Earth as travellers, transient spirits on a conscious or unconscious quest for the significance of our stay. The purpose of my book is to serve as a travel guide, as an inspiration, as a motivating element for the individual who wishes to make the trip worthwhile and exciting. It is about the art of successful living. We are all headed for the same ultimate destination; where we vary are the stopovers along the way and how long we stay. We all have the same potential, where we differ is the realization of that potential. The journey can be joyful or arduous, lonely or full but never without incident. Life is undeniably a tough exercise but it does not have to be just a trial; it can also be exciting, a constant source of self-improvement and full of wonder. We do have a say in the matter. There are rules to the game of Life. We are here to learn them, use them, and master them for our personal growth, health and happiness and for those of others. Within our grasp is a wonderful tool and if tapped will bring us treasures, happiness and peace beyond belief. All we need to do is be conscious of It and work with It. It only asks to be acknowledged and to live by Its precepts. We can be our own best friend or our worst enemy. All we have ever needed, need and will ever need is right there within! The Bucks does indeed Stop with Us, with You!

We are here on Earth as travellers, transient spirits on a conscious or unconscious quest for the significance of our stay. The purpose of my book is to serve as a travel guide, as an inspiration, as a motivating element for the individual who wishes to make the trip worthwhile and exciting. It is about the art of successful living. We are all headed for the same ultimate destination; where we vary are the stopovers along the way and how long we stay. We all have the same potential, where we differ is the realization of that potential. The earnest intent behind “The Buck Stops with You” is to turn people on to their own power. To remind ourselves of our greatness and at the same time our vulnerability. At the end of each chapter, I remind the reader: Memento Qui Tu Es or Remember who you are. I truly believe that we have forgotten who we truly are and who the other is. This work is beyond self-improvement, it is about self transformation, it is about self mastery. It is about taking a quantum leap into a different zone, a different way of living; it is about inspiring the reader to aspire to greater joy, peace and happiness, not as ends unto themselves but as by-products of a new state of consciousness, a new state of being. In the book, I encourage people to be themselves in this world which not only encourages conformity but prizes it. We have lost the use of our innate intuition. We need to transcend ourselves, our body, our emotions, our intellect, as we are far beyond those. This book is about mastership. We lie in the lap of tremendous intelligence which makes us recipients of Its wisdom and truth only waiting for our acknowledgement and use. There is a way out of all this mess. To trust and create our own imagination, our own innermost thoughts and use them for the betterment of the whole with no one left out. In our society, we idolize sports personalities, rock stars, movie stars, we envy them, and we try to imitate them. Why? Imitation is hara-kiri and envy is foolishness. We no longer truly express ourselves under the guise of political correctness. We need to become more courageous within a framework of mutual respect. We have also lost our ability to laugh and enjoy life. When watching little children at play I marvel at their childlike trust and childlike attitude which we have long lost. Childhood does not conform but society breeds conformity it and adulthood embraces it. We have jailed our self expression and have become our own warden. We have eunuched ourselves. Isn’t it time to change that? This book is about learning to change our modus operandi; to live from within and act without. Think within, act without. You know, it is easy to be great when things are great, but to be great when life dispenses pain is truly the mark of greatness. This book is about facing our troubles not viewing them as a battering ram but rather as challenges to test our mettle, to temper us and make us strong individuals. It is easy to agree with the world’s opinions; it is easy to have our own opinions in our seclusion but the great are the ones who can in the midst of the crowd, keep their own counsel with perfect aloofness. All the precepts expounded in the book apply to all facets of life. Bottom line the book is about taking our innate power back, guided by the Invisible Guiding Power which I call The Source, which in my opinion is in all of us. We all have the same identical potential, where we do differ is in the realization of that potential. The Buck is about thinking, imagining, talking and acting as gods in the midst of other gods. It is about expanding our state of consciousness to the maximum and to live as much as we can up to our potential. We have to become spiritual warriors as the battle field is within ourselves. We have become panhandlers, we settle for crumbs when we deserve the full cake. You want to change your circumstances? Change your state of consciousness!

Dr. Roger Gian is French born and as a youth immigrated to Australia with his family. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney, a certificate in Business Administration from McGill University, studied medicine in Rome and is a Doctor of Acupuncture from the order of Acupuncturists of Montreal, as well as having a multitude of other qualifications. He has worked and studied in France, Australia, Canada, Italy, China and Vietnam. His world travels led him to India, Nepal, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Asia and then Paris, France where he worked for a few years. North America then beckoned, so he moved to Montreal, Canada where he worked and studied pre-med. Medicine then led him to Rome, Italy, where he studied for two years. Lurking always was an undercurrent of spiritual yearning. His trips to various parts of India and Nepal drove him to explore the mystical side of life. After many seminars, a mountain of books, as well as contemplative exercises, an astonishing epiphany changed his life forever. This propelled him to continue his search for the grand meaning of Life. This book is the product of that quest.