Excerpts...
"We
were, I contend, not born skeptical. Rather, most of us were
convinced or coerced early on to trade-in our inherent playfulness,
along with a healthy portion of our individuality, for the 'privilege'
of not being left to the wolves. We did not wittingly do this.
We did not realize at the time that we were trading Manhattan
Island for a handful of worthless trinkets. So it was that we
became skeptics.
"And soon our enthusiasm, joy, spontaneity, and unconditional
love - the natural attributes of a healthy human being - were
ravaged by this skepticism. Most of us will have only a vague
recollection of these life-affirming feelings; some will have
none at all. But whether we consciously remember them or not,
we are homesick for them. These are the emotional equivalents
of the smell of cinnamon rolls and coffee, or of bacon and eggs
that no longer waft into our sleepy bedrooms through the early
morning air, and we miss them terribly.
"We
feel lost. We are lost. We have made a wrong turn somewhere,
somewhere very early on, back before the age of maps and reason,
back in the shadowy beginnings of our distant pasts, and we
are scared. And so we search. But a search that saddles itself
with an outside standard must finally fail. Any guru worth his
loincloth will tell you that you must ultimately leave him or
her by the side of your evolutionary road.
"Building a better life requires you (and you alone) to let
go into an experiential, moment-to-moment, Here/Now way of living.
This 'letting go' requires courage and wisdom - courage to transcend
your fears, wisdom to transcend your beliefs. Otherwise, you
are as a blind man before a sunset. You know that something
remarkable is happening out there, but you cannot be sure exactly
what it is, nor can you share in it.
"How does one discover and stay in 'flow' - that place that
is home to the writer's muse, the lover's gaze, and the athlete's
'zone?' How do we mine these moments of Oneness, string them
together side-by-side into a necklace of perpetual Now, where
we routinely trust in life and our ability to successfully meet
whatever challenges it offers us next?"
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