Thanks to all of you Boston Mind Adventurers’ and Mastermind Alliance Folks who stopped by the Boston Book Festival and picked up a limited edition, pre-publication version of our newest title: Marvelous Denials & Wonderful Obsessions. See some images of the ‘Marvelous’ weekend here.
Rejoicing at the Boston Book Festival
You’ve heard the statement, ‘rejoice in life’? The Boston Book Festival offers this opportunity; the opportunity to rejoice in the beauties of the fall season in New England, rejoice in the joyful music being played on stage at the fair, and most of all, rejoice in wonderful conversations with folks gathering to support the world of books.
I find when human beings gather to celebrate a worthwhile purpose, like the world of books, mundane conversation transforms into the sacred communication. I met several folks at the fair who were willing to share life-stories at a transformational level. The voice of transformation is far reaching; it’s found at every level of living.
Kerrie, a mother of three children, attended the book fair with her youngest son, Derek. Derek is a gifted poet, actor, and musician at the ripe age of fourteen. He carries a sense of humble certainty that is very apparent when you meet him. Imagine, and at such a young age.
I loved Derek’s attitude and I loved his mom’s enthusiasm. Kerrie said that Derek’s blossoming was his Wonderful Obsession, and she was dedicating her life to helping his unfoldment to be a ‘natural happening’. She held this in her heart as a unwavering point of understanding about her and Derek. All smallness and discord drops away when one looks at her (his) self-created mission with this kind of conviction.
It’s not a coincidence that she found the Mind Adventure Tent at the book fair. Right there, sitting on the table was a pre-publication edition of my new book, Marvelous Denials and Wonderful Obsessions. Kerrie purchased a couple of books so she and Derek could study it together, and better understand the incredible journey they were on.
We go beyond ourselves (our limited selves), through courageous self-facing; Kerrie understood this; she’d quit a secure job of twenty years in the Massachusetts State Court System, and moved to New York. She took this quantum leap for one reason: to allow her son to attend a school for gifted children. The breath of life renews whenever we act with this kind of conviction.
I met several people at the fair who are at a point where they are renouncing the foolishness in their lives. They’d recently realized that it was time to renounce all useless ideas that prove unfulfilling to their being. At the start, you need only start asking right questions.
I met a man who I will call ‘Steve’, a very successful entrepreneur, who had sold his startup company for over four hundred and fifty million dollars, and had recently returned from a year traveling around the world with his wife and three children. He was supposed to be blissfully happy, right? After all, he had arrived! At least, that is what the world-voice taught him.
After returning home from his trip, Steve realized that if he was to live his life according to his own sense, he wasn’t finished; he hadn’t arrived; there are many more mountains to climb. In fact, he realized that at the age of forty, he’d only begun … but he was feeling anxious. He lost the feeling of being wonderfully obsessed, and he was concerned – could he bring that feeling of aliveness back to his attitude? It was time for a new venture.
Everyone can carry fool’s gold in his mind, thinking it is pure gold. Steve was renouncing the golden axiom: ‘once you’re successful and rich, you’ve got it made’. He could see that this was fool’s gold; there are higher callings that are more fulfilling and much richer feeling than selling a successful company for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Steve was feeling a dull ache deep inside. He knew it was time to listen to his inner-voice. This voice was saying, “connect with life at a deeper level with your next venture … it’s time to begin right now.” On this Saturday in October, as Steve stood at the entrance of the beautiful Boston Public Library, pondering what to do next with his life, he noticed the Mind Adventure tent, and felt compelled to come over and have a look.
Steve explained all of the above to me, and went on to say that he’d been flirting with an ‘educational services’ idea. He said that he wanted to bring great will and great effort to this new idea, as he did when he developed his prior idea that became a phenomenal success. BUT … Steve feared he might fail this time.
Those 60,000 NO’s that we hear from age two to six are always ready to pounce, no matter where we are in life. Steve had graduated from one of the finest colleges in the world, and had proven he can be a whopping success in business; yet he was feeling insecure. This was a wonderful wakeup moment for Steve.
Steve loved the title, Marvelous Denials and Wonderful Obsessions; he caught onto what it meant immediately, and he realized it was time for him to deny the lies that made him feel insecure about starting over again. He also realized that no one but ‘HE’ could generate a wonderful obsession about his incredible potential to develop his new idea.
Steve is ready to ‘create something useful’ and ‘give back’ in a way that can make an incredible difference in the educational world … and yet, echoing NO’s from childhood years were beginning to interfere (in spite of the fact that he’d accomplished so much already). He was awakening to the fact that he was standing in his own way.
Wakefulness is a marvelous way of life. Wakefulness is an ongoing experience, not a one-time event. The Boston Book Fair was a wonderful opportunity for self-awakening for anyone who wanted it to be … including me, Nick (the artist and illustrator of Mind Adventure), Kerrie, Steve, and for many other folks who attended the fair. Every time we awaken a bit more, we see things from a higher perspective.
The mechanical thinker sleeps through life. He’s a robot-like machine who is compelled to hesitate and procrastinate. What compels him? The echoes of a thousand howling NO’s from the graveyard of his past. These folks don’t tend to go to book fairs.
The curious soul gets out there; he goes to events like book fairs; he watches, she listens, he reads, she is clear about wanting to awaken to more of her potential.
Student: How happy is he who is awake to his unrealized potential, and feels Wonderfully Obsessed about realizing more of it?
Teacher: He is very happy!
You are meant to be far more than a highly sophisticated machine. My book, Marvelous Denials and Wonderful Obsessions, helps you gain the knowledge you need to reject the lies that stop you from experiencing your unlimited side. It will be available soon. Right now, we are selling a pre-publication version at book fairs only.
I love mingling my mind with other’s minds that enjoy truth-discussions. Truth-discussions offer opportunities for self-transcendence because they help us get off a fixed position. When freed from a fixed position, we drop the false comfort of conforming to our beliefs … now we can see things from a new perspective. Book fairs offer this opportunity … I’m glad I decided to become an author.
Please leave a comment, sharing when you have enjoyed a truth-discussion with someone who was ready to renounce the foolishness in his or her life.
Perhaps you can share a personal story when you entered a truth-discussion and renounced the foolishness in your life?
Thank you & blessings
“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Tanja of Crystal Clear Copy Writing and Patricia of Patricia’s Wisdom. Thank you both for your honest, heartfelt sharing. See their comments here.
Illustrations by nick
Love it Rob how you are an active soul at the coal face of life meeting and talking direct with everyday folks to encourage them on their life voyages. It’s great that you go to where people are so you truly do ‘touch base’. And featuring Russ captures your teachings because he’s proved a bank full of bucks just doesn’t crack it as much as a soul full of wisdom and a life complete with purpose and authenticity day in day out. If you ever take it on the road and head UK way count me in for a drop by to the ‘adventure tent of dreams’!!!
Hi John. I suspect you have a book coming out soon? You love to write, It’s apparent. If you inventory your magnificent talents – prose is one of them. blessings
Rob,
This is wonderful – love the pictures and stories you’ve shared!!
I’m reminded of a time a couple of years ago, at a Starbucks coffeshop with a good friend, in downtown Chicago. It was one of those introspective conversations…a look at what really matters in life. And…it’s a conversation I still hold with me today – as I’m traveling this life course I’m on….
Hi Lance. Truth-discussions are like your Starbucks experience, arent’ they. Truth-discussions become pleasant strolls down psychology lane, where we find great discoveries about ourselves. blessings
For me, it started with a simple idea: finally create the online magazine we’d half-heartedly attempted multiple times over the better part of a decade.
Telling my wife about this, she *thankfully* didn’t quite get the specificity of the idea and shared her excitement at the thought of all kinds of automotive enthusiasts sharing their stories in such a magazine. That was just over two years ago.
Such has become my Wonderful Obsession. It fills my waking hours (and some of my sleeping). I see the potential of this work to help others on a global scale. It matters. And the more I invest myself into it, the better it gets.
My next step is to structure the business in such a way to be able to do it full time while delivering increased benefit to the community.
Hi Brian. I love your personal business story. it is a success story in the making. As you realize your position of life-captain in your life, nothing can stop you from fulfilling on your aspirations. You are beginning to feel that. GREAT! blessings
So awesome rob. It was a perfect day for a book fair. I feel lucky to have my copy. Let me know if you need any marketing help when you get closer to the publication. Anything I can do to get some experience and help out Mind Adventure along the way would be awesome! I appreciated chatting at the fair. Aside from our talks, I just recently had a good truth discussion with my roommate. You know we had been fighting and bickering, but we finally just had it out and I told to just talk the truth and I’ll do the same. I have to say, some of her points were actually valid! That was a total shocker to me. I thought it was ALL on her. BUT, I am soo proud of myself just to be able to listen and be willing to be open to her point of view. That was huge for me! In the past I would never ever ever even considered that she just might be right (about some things
) and I could be wrong. I’m making progress Rob. I think being willing to listen and learn is going to be a huge life lesson in progressing to my big goals!
Hi Kara. ‘Being willing to listen and learn’ … WOW, that’s a big one for all of us. When we are willing to really listen, we can see that uncertainty is a necessary path that we walk down, to get to crystal clarity about answers we seek. Now, nothing is in our way. What we dream of achieving, becomes reality. blessings
Thanks for another amazing post, Rob. You know, I don’t think I’ve spoken to anyone who else who’s renounced as big a foolishness as I have myself (or at least, it feels big for me… likely everyone’s feels just as big for them)
I have something of a chequered history in terms of a relationship with eating and food, and I’ve had several times where I’ve bordered on an eating disorder (certainly I’d describe it as being times of disordered eating).
For me, the point of renunciation came when I *got* on a gut level that I don’t owe it to society to meet its standard of bodily perfection. I never signed an contract with the world that I would take responsibility for looking perfect according to its definition. I’m not required to be seen as physically attractive by everyone I meet. Yes, I want to feel good in my own body – I want to eat foods that make me feel good, and move in ways that make me feel strong and healthy. And yes, sometimes it’s fun to dress up and feel “pretty”. But I’m not required to – and it doesn’t make me bad, or lazy, or worthless if I don’t.
Realising that I’d even been thinking in those terms up to that point was a huge step. But deciding to reject it? To renounce that way of thinking? That was probably one of the most powerful decisions I’ve made in my life.
Thank you for helping me to recognise and celebrate that.
TANJA
hi Tanja. ‘Renouncing a big foolishness’ …. so few dare do it. I acknowledge and appreciate you for sharing this slice of your life with us. A conscious woman sees her life with unclouded vision. There is incredible power in this psychic position. Hold onto your hat! I find you beautifully charming, sharing your truth with the rest of us. What’s more beautiful than that? NOTHING! blessings
Congrats, Rob. I love following the progress of this book. I feel like I have been writing and living the journey with you in a way. Needless to say, I have enjoyed our truth-discussions. Well… maybe not always ‘enjoyed’ but they are always what I need to hear. I think that is the nature of coming to the truth. It stinks learning that we have been so wrong for so long. I remember feeling very overwhelmed with all the things I had to change, but a great relief too knowing that I could give up a lot of my foolishness. I’m going to keep plugging along. Watching you going and going is motivation enough!
Hi Roger. YES, you have participated in many truth-discussions with me and with others in your community. Your fierce and fearless honesty has changed your life tremendously. I am honored to know you. blessings
Rob,
Through the recent loss of my brother, I have realized that I wasn’t responsible for his choices. The life-long guilt has cost me so much. The truth is I loved him and did everything I could, but I couldn’t want it more than he did.
Learning this truth is beginning to set me free.
Alex
Hi Alex. WOW, this sounds like a big one for you. False guilt has destroyed many lives. You have no self that is apart from your brother (even now). Speak with him about your feelings, let him your new revelations. Being one with the truth also makes you one with fabulous changes in your psychic nature (changes that will benefit not only you, but all of humanity). blessings
Dear Rob,
Your posts has become mandatory reading for me these days. You inspire the hell out of me with your mission to help everyone awaken to their destiny. This destiny is there for us all to create and it is within each and everyone of us to reach it. The only response to the 60000 Nos we got in our early years is just one resounding YES. Yes, that is all that is required. YES to a live of wonderful obsession. YES to a life of change for the better. YES to the chance to change humanity. It is sacred calling to be the YES of our own lives.
This post from the Boston fair reminds me of the morale of the story from the movie Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrie and Morgan Freeman. I do not know if you have seen that movie. At the climax of the movie when Carrie finally understood God’s (Freeman’s) intent, God said, “Humans ask and pray for miracles in their lives. But they do not need miracles because they are the miracles of life.”
From the conviction of Kerrie the mum to provide her son, Derek with the gifted education, to Steve’s search for the his next obsession to fill his soul, these are the miracles of life that will take humanity to the next level of righteousness and enlightenment. We must each make and live this miracle. It is our journey and calling. It is the one boat we must not miss.
I am looking forward to your book release as I chart my own miracle in the making.
Cheers
Hi Jimmy. Your comment is from your true mind. This is apparent. The true mind gets straight to the point, and does so with elegance. Great prose comes from this mind. How’s it feel to communicate from this mind? It makes it easy to drop a useless viewpoint, doesn’t it. blessings
When comments or thoughts comes from a true mind, I feel a sense of release. My true self has spoken and that will be the best for the world.
Rob, could I ask about your personal transformation journey? I have read your story on your site and admire you for this. But what does it take to really succeed in our own personal development? What can we really do to ensure that the wonderful obsession becomes reality?
What a great cross section of people! It just goes to show that there are certain truths that apply to everybody. That’s what I love. Forget about what religion, race etc we are, at the end of the day we are speaking the same human language. That’s what I like, about the new book. I think the message applies to everyone. I loved the whole festival just for the reasons you cited. When I was walking around I met all kinds of intelligent, inquiring people from all different backgrounds. Harvard grads, art students, MIT Geeks
and even the Occupy Boston people! I love it because they are all crazy passionate about something. That’s what the fair reinforced for me, just get passionate about something! It is inspiring to be around all those people.
hi Carol anne. you mention how much fun it is to be with folks who are ‘crazy passionate’ about soemthing. You have become ‘crazy passionate’ about a few things these days. How’s it feel? You are no longer secretly nervous about being wrong. Feels great, doesn’t it. blessings
Congratulations Rob. I love the photos. They make the event come alive for us readers!
hi Angela. Pictures are powerless to uplift the mind unless the heart is ready. your heart is always ready for that! Thank you
It sounds as though the book fair was a great success, Rob! Congrats! I would have loved to been there, myself. It sounds like it was a rewarding experience to be apart of. So glad you shared your experience with us in this post.
I loved and can certainly relate to this post, because I am right there in the same moment in my own life of Wakefulness! I am constantly being awaken to my past thoughts and mentalities that have kept me stagnate and procrastinating for years. It’s a daily process the I’m getting better and better at gripping. It really is an awakening experience, and one that certainly leaves me happier than I’ve been in my entire life. There’s so much more growth to go for me, but what I’m learning in this part of my life is that if we aren’t constantly growing we are dying daily. I’m blessed to have made the self-discoveries that I have made.
You are such a blessing and inspiration to me. I may not ever get the opportunity to meet you, although I do hope the opportunity arises some day; I just want you to know that I thank you. For the passion you have in helping other’s reach their inner strength.
I look forward to reading the new book!
I wish you all the best, bud. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Hi Deeone. Our paths shall cross; you can rest assured about this. some things are meant to be. You cannot change your life until you change yourself, right Deeone …. because you are your life! This is the underlying message that I hear you communicating lately. You are ready for unfamiliar teachings that can rescue you. The teaching are flooding you now. blessings
- Sorry I missed you at the fair, Rob. I’ve been under the weather, my energy has been up and down lately. The good news is that has provided ample time for reading… my second favorite past time. I like hearing the Steve story. It just goes to show that we will always be seeking until the day we die. That’s what I love about reading, I can experience a whole lifetime in between those two covers. I’m contemplating putting some of my sailing experiences to writing. I don’t know if anyone will want to read it, but I think now is a good time to get started. I’ve been having a lot of truth-discussions with myself lately and feel that is time for my next big project.
Hi Salty. ‘Truth-discussions’ with oneself – great, great habit to get into. What must one want to get out of such discussions? One must want clarity more than wanting to be right about his/her current closely held beliefs and opinions. Thank you
Rob:Congrats on the new book. Loved the pictures from the book fair. I wish I could have been in Boston so I could have dropped by and met you:)
Hi Sibyl. When we meet, you will see that just as a flower opens to sunshine, we shall both smile knowing that we are receptive to an enchanting conversation. Be ready! blessings
Hey brother man. 450 mill!!! I think I would have to PAY someone else to take away my business! Forget about getting 450 mil for it HAHA. Hey, but thats alright. That dude is no more happy than I am. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that I’m a good deal happier just bopping along in my way. If I had that money, I don’t really even know what I would change. Not much. That’s how I know I’m doing things right. Sure, I have my struggles but all in all I like what I’m doing. It’s all about ‘wakefulness’ baby! We can get out of bed and be awake to all the beauty in the world everyday – that’s my wonderful obsession – don’t miss a single day! Appreciate the little beauties in each in everyone. Hey, its not high tech but it floats my boat!
Hi Rus. when we learn to ‘appreciate the little beauties’, we break free of mechanical thinking. What can be more exalting than that? Nothing! blessings
Hey Rob,
I bet New England is beautiful this time of year. Love the title of the new book and I am looking forward to reading it.
Steve sounds like many people who have achieved financial success yet they are sill searching for more meaning and purpose in life.
At least he is still young and can take his money and apply it to creating his desires.
Hi Justin. Steve, like you, is out for spiritual success. When we seek spiritual success, we do not mistake a worldly windfall for a new life … we know it is part of the journey toward a new life, but it’s never the final prize. blessings
Hi Rob, congrats on the success of the fair. As I view the photos and read the words of this post, I feel a great reawakening and revival in my spirit, most especially after reading through the Steve story. And I got something great from his story- I guess there can be no substitute to the deepest yearnings of our heart, spirit and being. This is one of the experiences I’ve been having from involving in discussions of this nature. I have been able to get in touch with my deeper feelings, fears and insecurities, and I’ve been able to develop the courage to tackle them. Sharing the truth opens the door of intimacy through which love can enter the soul. Sincerely speaking, I feel vulnerable by opening up to the other person a few times, but listening to the other person speak makes my awareness and insight expand…When someone talks deeply to me about their feelings, I suddenly begin to remember something or feel something in me….I gain valuable new insights and new wisdom about myself… I’m able to relate with my being on a deeper spiritual level, I feel wonderfully! Thats what your posts have been doing to me lately… I dont really have the words to express how I’m feeling, but on general terms, I feel more lighter and more loving after a truth discussion… The fair took place far away from me, but I’ve been able to connect with the event through the photos and each word of this post…thanks. How I wished I were there! Just talking and listening to you would have been wonderful…I might have shed some joyous tears too. Yea, because I’ve been experiencing some change lately, positively, at a very fast rate…and I cant just believe this is happening to me… Thanks Rob, thanks!
Hi Oluwa. Written words are not the only means of communication. With this comment, you have communicated with your heart. The feeling is very much there. When you live your life from your heart-mind, your inner spirit comes into your outer form with great illumination. You light up the hearts of everyone you meet. Take a moment to acknowledge and appreciate this about yourself. Thank you for the heart-felt communication. It is a gift. blessings
Hi Rob. Man I need to have truth-discussion with some people in my life. I feel like I’m carrying the load for some people who’s hearts are not in it anymore. I’m frustrated right now because I’m more excited and enthused than ever, but now I feel like some of the other people in my band are getting ready to check out. It particularly sucks because as a musician, I feel like I’m really evolving and starting to breakthrough, while others are not willing to step up their game. Can you send a couple of books my way? We may need to have a book group before every band practice! LOL
Hi John. You are moving at a macro-pace right now. It is a marvelous opportunity for you to experience breakthrough after breakthrough. These moments hold the highest place in the memories of great achievers. Pause and rejoice for the experience you are in. blessings
I think I must have been very lucky as a child because I only accepted the lies, denials and no’s for my infancy. As a pre teen I was already nodding pleasantly and smiling with my ears firmly closed to the adult purveyors of ‘can’t’ in my school and life.
I only realize how lucky I was to be able to do that when I hear other people’s stories and where the no’s have taken them today.
I’m not even sure why I was able to do that.
Hi pea. T’is but the very very very very few that are able to shake off all of the NO’s. Jesus did. Krishna did. Buddha did. Mohammad did. NO’s can be very subtle. In what domain of your life are you still not where you want to be? Are you rich with money (so much so that you are able to endow plenty to all of the causes you support)? Are you physically in perfect condition, playing a superb game of tennis (or skiing on the highest slopes in the Swiss Alps)? Are all of your relationships incredibly wonderful? Are you always in an absolute state of inner peacefulness, no matter what happens around you? Whenever the answer is “NO” …. there lies a ‘NO’. All domains of life are lifted to the highest place, all is purified and perfected when there are no ‘NO’s”. The fun of the game is forever overcoming another NO with feelings of exhilarating triumph (I believe). blessings
They sound like different ‘no’s’ to the ones I meant, but I agree with your assessment none the less. However wouldn’t we be dead if we didn’t have anymore no’s to push against? I’m not sure I want to get rid of some of the subtle no’s you mentioned!
Hey Rob,
Looks like you had a great time at the book festival. I enjoy those events.
It was really sad to see the book store I usually shopped at, Borders, go out of business. There really is such a positive and rewarding energy when you look around a book store or fair.
Thanks for sharing your stories with those of us who couldn’t attend.
Bryce
Hi Bryce. Like a block of wood blocks two magnets from attracting one another, a block of ignorance blocks two intelligent human beings from being attracted to one another. Book fairs remove the block of ignorance. blessings.
Hey Rob. I don’t know how you do it, Man. I wish I was wonderfully obsessed with something (I know, I know, we’ve talked about this…). I do enjoy a good heart to heart truth discussion from time to time. It makes me feel excited and pumped like I can take on the world. I have good truth-discussions with people, but nothing seems to come of it. I always come away from the conversation thinking all right, this is it I’m getting my life together! I start planning trips, & business ideas but, things stay the same. I’m not giving up though. I do believe there is something I am meant to do here!
Hi Alan. YES, you have a raison d’etre (a reason for being here). And guess what … you don’t find the reason … you determine the reason. How powerful is that? blessings
Yes, yes. I can quite readily identify with the Steve fellow now that I’m retired. It was quite an unexpected struggle and a tougher transition than I ever could have anticipated. Which you know is the biggest reason I started coming around here. When I was wrapped up in my working life, I would be the first to dismiss this conversation as spiritual hogwash or what have you. But, I’ve found there is nothing more true. It is still quite scary facing that blank canvas. I’ve accepted that as part of the process but boy I can get quite anxious when I feel like I’m just sitting on my butt. To simply fill the time with a so called ‘hobby’ is not enough. I’m really taking seriously the prospect of starting a brand new venture. The more I think about the more obvious it seems it is what I have to do.
Hi Georgie. Grandma Moses was declared ‘young woman of the year’ by Mademoiselle Magazine when she was 88! What does that teach you about the nature of being a ‘human being’? Keep on keeping on! blessings
Hello Rob,
I really enjoyed reading this. Besides the lessons that lay within, the interaction you described alone was flat out inspiring.
Kerrie’s enthusiastic commitment to see her son win in life is amazing. Many wouldn’t consider making such sacrifices…and to hear when people are is a wonderful testament to our nature.
I’ve never thought about what’s next for a person who has reached such levels of success as a guy like Steve has. I knew they were just as human as the next person, but I never considered the challenges that they could face by having such huge wins, and feeling lost by not being able to reach [what they believe] is the same pinnacle.
Just when you think you win, the 60k NO’s come to haunt.
That’s a great lesson. I blindly thought that success at such magnitude meant that those NO’s were gone forever…but from this I see that they creep back in to interrupt and disrupt life.
What an amazing experience. Your descriptions of the event, along with the pictures made me feel like I was there (from afar) witnessing the magic firsthand.
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“Everyone can carry fool’s gold in his mind, thinking it is pure gold”…
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I’ve don’t this before. I’ve done it to the point where I knew good and well that it was fool’s gold, but convinced myself it was the opposite. Over time, I believed it. And overtime, I suffered because of it.
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This reminds me of when my grandmother was dying. I knew she was in bad shape but the pain led me to paint a different picture…to believe that she was getting better. I really didn’t have the courage to see her in such a terrible state, so I avoided going to visit her. She passed away a couple of days later – and I next saw her at her funeral. I had painted a picture of false reality…that she was going to be fine – when I knew that she wasn’t okay. My fear in seeing my hero outside of herself was too difficult for me to face. But what do you know; I faced her a week later, as she laid without life insider of her. She passed on Halloween 2005.
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One year later, to the day, my grandfather passed away. This time, when he started to get sick, I didn’t cower away from reality. I wanted to. But I didn’t. I went to visit him, along with my wife and kids (only 2 at the time). One of the hardest things I’ve ever done. When we left…as we hugged, we knew it would be our last one in this life. It was hard.
That brought about some emotions I hadn’t planned on bringing up.
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I can’t wait for Miami!
Thank you Rob
Hi Jk.
I am very much looking forward to sharing a tent with you at the Miami International Book Fair. Your book (now in publication) will be your first collection of thoughts to go into print. How does that feel?
What you have shared here (your comment) touched me deeply. Of the seven deadly fears … fear of dying is probably my biggest (actually, it is fear of suffering before dying). What would have me fear this? Perhaps the 60,000 NO’s I heard from the Catholic church (I was born and raised Catholic). Because of this fear, I missed saying goodbye to a few dear family members and friends. How foolish of me.
When you write, Jk, your dialogue creates a silence in the mind of the reader.
When you write, Jk, your dialogue creates a silence in the mind of the reader.
When you write, Jk, your dialogue creates a silence in the mind of the reader. This is your gift as a writer.
Words drop from the head-mind (in the silence), and feelings well forth through the heart-mind.
Words drop from the head-mind (in the silence), and feelings well forth through the heart-mind.
Words drop from the head-mind (in the silence), and feelings well forth through the heart-mind.
When the heart-mind overflows with feelings, the point you are making becomes REAL for the reader. Never let this talent dwindle, Jk. Think of it often. Draw upon it by relaxing into it when you are writing. You have an awesome future (as a writer) ahead of you.
Ps. I repeat the above statements 3X’s to be sure they sink in your mind
blessings
Impressive comment.
Hi Rob,
Excellent post as usual my friend. Wow, 400 million dollars, but I can understand Steve and why he wants to embark on a new journey. As I was reading Steve’s story, I remembered a story that I read about one of the top millionaries in Canada. He was very wealthy, but was not happy in his life. He felt something was lacking. He wanted to serve humanity in some way. When he discussed his issue with one of the top spiritual people, he was told to get closer to God. Then he went to Africa and started helping handicapped children how to think and develop their mentality. When he saw the children becoming happy and learning something from him, he started to experience inner peace and he has found what he is passionate about. Then he went on and opened many facilities in African to help handicapped children grow their mentality. It is always great to see what the human mind can achieve. Thanks for sharing my friend
Hi Dia. I believe you are here to heal. I believe you are a healer by nature. It shows in your style. Some come to teach. Some come to heal. some come to build. Some come to explore. etc. etc. I believe you have come to heal. Please contemplate this. There are four stages of healing, and with each stage there is a disappearance of fear. This part of the conversation is meant for another time.
blessings
I wish I coulda been there Rob. I can always use some of that sacred communication. I’m so up and down lately. I wake up everyday motivated and wonderfully obsessed with the job search, but by the afternoon, I just loose it. It’s a bad cycle. It’s just so damn bleak out there. This gives me some good perspective though. Even a dude like Steve goes through peaks and valleys. Looking forward to the new book. I’m going over and over my 180 and am ready for more! Best of luck with the new one.
Hi Ramone. You are ready for more of the ‘good stuff’ … the knowledge that transforms you from ‘being angry’ to ‘being allowing’. You have come a long way. Regret over past behavior causes underground torment. Let it go. blessings
What a wonderful day for you. Congratulations. Your experiences just reinforce in me to stay on my spiritual path. Sometimes I have periods of doubt that all this conversation is a bunch of hooey. It’s so refreshing to hear stories of people who ask deeper questions and stay on their path. Kerrie sounds like she is following her highest calling by being totally selfless and making sure her son fulfills on his potential. That’s just WOW! This weeks article has made me ask deeper and deeper questions of myself. I have to stay awake and alert to be sure I am putting life into this conversation in my daily existence. Thanks Rob!
Hi Alicia. you have putting yourself into uplifting conversations in many ways, lately. It is apparent when you speak. How can spontaneous Alicia replace the struggling Alicia? You have many references now. blessings
YEAH Robb-o. TAKIN IT TO THE STREETTSS SOn! That’s what it takes. No doubt your rubbing elbows with the big dogs there! That steve dude is badass! I got bored just being successful at a few things. It got so easy it became ridiculously easy and BORING. I know some of my boys who were on a path to success right out of college because they were set up with jobs in finance. But as soon as they started making some bills they had no idea what to do with themselves. They became TOTAL train wrecks. Just partying all the time and blowing their money on whacked out weekend benders and shiz.Worst part is they hardly EVAH hooked up because they were so out of it. I saw them as exactly what I DID NOT want to become. In fact that’s when I started reading up things like this… I saw that I might join them on their descent into a H-E-L-L!! That’s how I know I’m DeSTINED to win like SteveA-rino over there. I don’t settle or stop. I’m lucky to have enough sense to know that we have to be continually taking life by the B-A-L-#-S!! or else we get bored and KILL ourselves in some way or another. Even after I make my first MIL I know that I’m gonna have to keep moving on the next thing. I’ve had my fun now I’m getting serious about fulfilling on what I know is IN ME.
Hi Magic. you have a lot of sense. You are using more and more of your good sense. You desire to improve, and it shows (sometimes your ego shouts loudly, but the truth still shines through you). Unconscious and reckless forces can no longer take you over … can they, Magic. blessings
You know it’s funny, Rob. Whenever I have a random conversation with a complete stranger I imagine they are angels from God. I like to think they are sent here because there is something profound to learn and God is trying to say something to me. Usually it’s just “lighten up Joan!” It’s a little quirk I have that works for me.
Hi Joan. Imagining your conversations with strangers are ‘meetings with angels from god’ … that’s inspiring, Joan. I am going to ponder that. False goodness is a real burden. Seeing others as angels from god can bring real goodness out of a conversation, can’t it. blessings
Hello Rob! Remember me?! I finally got a chance to check out your site. Very cool! You have my permission to use our conversation in your next blog! Haha. Thanks for that… I got a huge boost out of our chat. Blew my mind WHEW!. Seriously though, since our chat I’ve been approaching my “crummy” job with a newfound zeal. Loving yout book too. Thanks my friend! I’ll be checking back on your site.
Hi James. I do remember you. How can i forget such a worthy conversation? Your crummy job won’t feel so crummy when you approach it with newfound zeal. blessings