Open your heart, soul, mind, and know no fear
......And that is the secret I discovered about realizing one's dreams. If you are dreaming it now, you cannot attain it or it would not be a dream, it would be a fact of your life. BUT if you are dreaming it now, you can transform yourself into the person who can have that dream as reality. That begs the question: What, then, is the key to self-transformation?
I have realized some impossible miracles in my life. I have done so when it mattered most, like fighting for my child's voice in the face of overwhelming odds and suppressive forces. Because the gradient was so insanely steep when I entered the fight, because defeat was unacceptable, because the stakes we just too damn high to lose, I had to discover the authentic source of producing miracles at will. I had to learn my way through the true landscape of realizing dreams. What I discovered is that ultimate point of leverage for generating miracles, for realizing dreams, for making the impossible become a natural reality, lies within ourselves. Really.
Oh sure, there is a ton of work to do around yourself, in the environment, in your relationships, and with your individual actions. But the heart of the work of realizing dreams is in sacrificing who you are to the person you must become in order to have the miraculous. See, the miracle you seek is attainable to someone, somewhere, at some time. If it isn't yours yet, then you aren't that person. The inquiry then needs to be asking if you are willing to become that person. Perhaps you are; perhaps not. Perhaps the person you would need to be for a given outcome is not someone you want to or are willing to become. Fine, then walk away from your notion of that dream and leave it to someone who will be the person well matched with it. Find another, for they are countless and all equally wondrous. (Although, I have to admit, I don't think we get to casually vote on our dreams. I find that they choose us, and we accept or chicken out. But we'll tackle that another time.)
If you find that you are willing to become the human being suited to the dream, then you have the opportunity of exercising our most Divine capacity as human beings: you can consciously and willfully evolve to become someone you are not now - someone to whom that dream accrues as naturally as roses bloom on a healthy rose bush.
One of the greatest stories I have ever heard is about Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzig Norgay being interviewed after reaching the summit of Mount Everest. They were asked if they always knew they'd reach the top or did they have doubts. Hilary replied that, oh no, they were quite sure that they could NOT reach the summit. But they knew that someone could, and that someone would one day. They climbed, he said, with all their might, committed to discovering who they would be if they succeeded. They wanted to reach the summit to see who they would meet there, in themselves, if they made it. They were literally and figuratively quite willing to die for their dream. Most importantly, they were willing to have who they knew themselves to be, much more importantly than the risk to their bodies, die as they climbed, so someone unexpected and unknown could be born as they summitted.
And that is the secret I discovered about realizing one's dreams. If you are dreaming it now, you cannot attain it or it would not be a dream, it would be a fact of your life. BUT if you are dreaming it now, you can transform yourself into the person who can have that dream as reality. That begs the question: What, then, is the key to self-transformation?
Often embarking on the journey to realize the dream provides the material, opportunities, the energy, and ultimately, the alchemy of transforming oneself. However, I have found that the first prerequisite, and by far the most essential, is the specific and fierce intention to change yourself all the way down to your soul. You have to want who you could be so desperately, (as they say in Zen, like a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond), that you willingly leave behind who you are now. Somehow, it is only in departing from ourselves that we find ourselves. It is only by surpassing our limits that we find our new parameters.
A beautious excerpt from a letter posted in Rob Brezny's Beauty and Truth Lab
I always look forward to wed's horoscopes with such anticipation...
I have realized some impossible miracles in my life. I have done so when it mattered most, like fighting for my child's voice in the face of overwhelming odds and suppressive forces. Because the gradient was so insanely steep when I entered the fight, because defeat was unacceptable, because the stakes we just too damn high to lose, I had to discover the authentic source of producing miracles at will. I had to learn my way through the true landscape of realizing dreams. What I discovered is that ultimate point of leverage for generating miracles, for realizing dreams, for making the impossible become a natural reality, lies within ourselves. Really.
Oh sure, there is a ton of work to do around yourself, in the environment, in your relationships, and with your individual actions. But the heart of the work of realizing dreams is in sacrificing who you are to the person you must become in order to have the miraculous. See, the miracle you seek is attainable to someone, somewhere, at some time. If it isn't yours yet, then you aren't that person. The inquiry then needs to be asking if you are willing to become that person. Perhaps you are; perhaps not. Perhaps the person you would need to be for a given outcome is not someone you want to or are willing to become. Fine, then walk away from your notion of that dream and leave it to someone who will be the person well matched with it. Find another, for they are countless and all equally wondrous. (Although, I have to admit, I don't think we get to casually vote on our dreams. I find that they choose us, and we accept or chicken out. But we'll tackle that another time.)
If you find that you are willing to become the human being suited to the dream, then you have the opportunity of exercising our most Divine capacity as human beings: you can consciously and willfully evolve to become someone you are not now - someone to whom that dream accrues as naturally as roses bloom on a healthy rose bush.
One of the greatest stories I have ever heard is about Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzig Norgay being interviewed after reaching the summit of Mount Everest. They were asked if they always knew they'd reach the top or did they have doubts. Hilary replied that, oh no, they were quite sure that they could NOT reach the summit. But they knew that someone could, and that someone would one day. They climbed, he said, with all their might, committed to discovering who they would be if they succeeded. They wanted to reach the summit to see who they would meet there, in themselves, if they made it. They were literally and figuratively quite willing to die for their dream. Most importantly, they were willing to have who they knew themselves to be, much more importantly than the risk to their bodies, die as they climbed, so someone unexpected and unknown could be born as they summitted.
And that is the secret I discovered about realizing one's dreams. If you are dreaming it now, you cannot attain it or it would not be a dream, it would be a fact of your life. BUT if you are dreaming it now, you can transform yourself into the person who can have that dream as reality. That begs the question: What, then, is the key to self-transformation?
Often embarking on the journey to realize the dream provides the material, opportunities, the energy, and ultimately, the alchemy of transforming oneself. However, I have found that the first prerequisite, and by far the most essential, is the specific and fierce intention to change yourself all the way down to your soul. You have to want who you could be so desperately, (as they say in Zen, like a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond), that you willingly leave behind who you are now. Somehow, it is only in departing from ourselves that we find ourselves. It is only by surpassing our limits that we find our new parameters.
A beautious excerpt from a letter posted in Rob Brezny's Beauty and Truth Lab
I always look forward to wed's horoscopes with such anticipation...