Stress.

The greatest stress always happens just before the greatest growth. The longer the incubation, the greater the growth. Desire is the sun, the soil, the water.
Think about a seed...lying there on the ground wanting more than anything to be an entire tree. Imagine the patience and the resolve and the amazing amount of energy it takes to become a tree. OK, so I know that  your thinking that it doesn't have any of the distractions we have...but actually it probably has all of them otherwise every seed would turn into a tree..but they don't do they?...
But just before that first sprout comes bursting out of that pod
I can't imagine the faith, the pain, and far more importantly...the will.

This is the ride. We call it good and bad (according to it's effect on us-and we can't even agree on that) but it's all just experience. And experience
is what we bring to every new situation...putting us on a perspective perch that's just a little bit higher than the last one..giving us a few more options than we had before the last experience...a few more things that we know, that we appreciate, that we can count on....

Book Excerpt #2

Happy Tuesday everyone,

This has been sitting here pasted into this document for upload for several hours while I had a life altering chat with a friend. I like life-altering....I like friends...and man, I can chat! :)

Today's installment of "The New Golden Rule"

Let me know what you think... 

 

"We have inherited a tired, eroded version of love that suggests: If I ‘love’ you and you ‘love’ me, I’ll be who you want me to be and you will be who I want you to be.

We go through life professing love for this and love for that and in truth we have no idea what that really means. I feel warm and fuzzy about it?  I want to possess it?

Right about here you may well be thinking that you know love when you feel it. You might not be able to define it exactly, but you certainly know it when you feel it. If that is the case then at least you can concede that we are profoundly governed by what we feel. That may seem obvious but it is a critical conclusion because there is a very clear disconnection between what we ‘feel’ and our ability to define it. Later on we will see why that has become a problem for so many people.

Do you suppose you can love someone and then, when they do something you don’t like you can stop loving them? Why do you know in your heart that love is bigger than that and yet you ‘give it’ and ‘take it away’ as though it were a commodity.

When you allow yourself to ‘feel’ love instead of engaging in the ‘rationale’ which can be ‘boiled down’ to mental pro’s and con’s (I love you because-I don’t love you because), you know that love is more than that and so do I.

Now I’m about to prove to you how you can come to feel your inherent nature. How, if you are truly selfish in the useful sense, you will come to feel love at the core of your being as who and what you really are.

When you come to this brand of ‘selfishness’, you will become inherently less selfish than you ever thought possible. In order for this to occur we need a radical reworking of the Golden Rule"...
See ya next week!