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The simplest way to live an extraordinary life, is to decide that your life is extraordinary. By choosing to experience your life this way, your life becomes as you interpret it to be. When you let go of chasing the perfect life, it becomes obvious your life has been perfect from day one. That every moment has led you to this moment. Every conversation was necessary to the development of your person and your wisdom. Every red light, every flat…
Walter Jenkins ~ Knowledge v. Intuition It was the day before my epic cross-country road trip when my friend, Sean Portier, called me practically jumping through the phone concerning a scientist named Walter Jenkins. As he told me the story about Walt creating a car that ran almost entirely on water, my curiosity peaked. When he went into detail about how he then snubbed a substantial monetary buyout from big oil money, I knew I was adding a stop on…
“Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
One of the principle teachings of A Course in Miracles is that you are the Light of the World. You alone can transform the world, because you created the world. And you are powerful enough to have created the world, because you are an extension of God. Some people get really worked up when I share this perception. The ego- especially the religious ego- immediately calls blasphemy. That’s because the ego believes you are small and worthless and a sinner and…
It starts with you. When I was in college, I was obsessed with changing the world. I was a political science major, so naturally, I thought our governing bodies needed an extreme makeover. I had fallen into one of the oldest tricks in the ego’s book of lies: the answer is outside of me. If the politicians were better, our results would be different… If citizens committed to a different interpretation of civil rights, we would experience more freedom… If we…
