September 22, 2024 • 15 mins
Have you ever paused to consider the relationship you have with yourself? In this episode, we take you through a recent mountain hike that sparked deep introspection on self-worth and the overlooked necessity of self-care. We explore the common pitfalls of getting lost in external relationships and social media distractions, stressing the importance of dedicating time to connect with our inner selves. Discover how creative and personal expression can help us overcome the fears of failure and success that often block our path to self-discovery. Through shared experiences and honest trial and error, we uncover insights that make us wiser and better equipped to tackle life's challenges.
Moving forward, we shift focus to living a soulful life of service beyond the confines of ego. We examine how the soul embodies our unique talents, potentials, and the sources of our joy and purpose. By understanding the ego's protective nature, we learn how to channel its energy towards serving a higher purpose and co-creating with God. This journey involves sharing our gifts selflessly without the craving for fame or recognition. Embrace the tools and capacities you have, trust in your role within the grand tapestry of life, and find fulfillment in your contributions to the world around you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, welcome back to part four of the
month of relationships, andthis time we have one more
relationship to talk about Notan easy relationship to talk
about and that is therelationship between us and
ourselves.
And I want to start withsharing with you a story of
(00:21):
something that just happened tome literally three, four days
ago.
There is a mountain with abeautiful hike that I went
climbing on and literally within10 to 15 minutes of the climb,
the elevation was significantlyhigh and allowed me to have a
(00:41):
beautiful view of thesurrounding area of the mountain
.
And all of a sudden, my eyesfixated on seeing in the
distance all these little thingsmoving at significant speed.
And then I realized that theywere cars on the local highway.
And as I stared at them and fora minute almost felt the
(01:04):
sensation of looking at like anant farm, because they were so
small in their appearance, justtiny objects moving, and many of
them so almost uniform.
Because there were so many carsmoving in both directions of
the highway and out of nowhere,the following question popped up
in my mind Will anybody careabout me?
(01:26):
Will anybody notice me?
And for a minute there there wasthis uncomfortable feeling of
that really, truly in the bigpicture of life.
Are any of these peoplepreoccupied, thinking about me
or other people in life?
And if they are, who are theythinking about me or other
people in life?
And if they are, who are theythinking about?
Most likely people thatactually matter to them, people
(01:49):
they care about.
As I probably would do the same, how much will I be thinking
about people in those carspassing by?
Probably forgot them five, fiveto ten minutes after, seeing
those cars moving and this heavyreality settled in of nobody's
really going to care about meother than me, I need to be the
(02:13):
one to care about myself, and itwas such an interesting concept
because we live in the world ofrelationships and very often
people are spending their entirelives surrounded by
relationships, and to a degreethat there isn't even an
opportunity to actually take thetime and be able to spend time
(02:36):
with oneself and appreciatehaving a relationship with one's
own inner world, whether it'sthrough artistic expression or
creative expression that may belying deep inside us.
Instead of doing that, we're sobusy either interacting with
the relationships we alreadyhave or spending a lot of time
(02:58):
on social media and otheroutlets that take us away and
essentially create anenvironment of anything but time
for myself, anything butrelationship with myself.
Today, even people like to throwaround the phrase self-care.
I have to make sure I do someself-care, which to me is
basically a fancy way of sayingcarve out some time to be with
(03:21):
you, time to be with you, andit's amazing how much flows out
of that space, the more there isa sense of I love myself, and
not from egotistical standpointof you, not, it's all about me,
others should be hurt.
(03:41):
I'm hoping to go into a littlemore depth on ego and its role
in our lives, but I'm talkingright now about just one
perspective of hey, there's areal me in there, there's a real
person with uniqueness andpotential and hope and optimism
and creative ideas about how todo this thing called life.
(04:05):
And instead of being able tospend time connecting to that
voice and not only connecting toit but even giving it
expression, going even one stepfurther, like really truly
giving expression to that voiceInstead I'm busy constantly with
an output.
There's always either somethingto learn or another podcast to
(04:26):
listen to, another voice to getinto my brain, but nothing in my
soul.
See, because it seems to mefrom all the adventures I've
been on and all the approachesI've taken.
What so far has come clear tome is that there is time to take
in information, to learn and togrow, but then there's also
(04:49):
time to grow.
That is really a transformation, namely an experience in which
me creating something, mereaching into myself, finding my
inner voice and, yes, manytimes through trial and error
and through stumbling andfumbling my way through
(05:09):
experiences, experiments, ideas,but through that process I get
to learn more about myself.
I go through an importantself-discovery journey that
allows me to learn how to bewiser and how to be better at
handling various situations inlife.
(05:30):
I was recently speaking to aclient.
The client says but I don'tknow how to access my own inner
voice, I don't know what if it'sthe wrong thing.
And the answer I gave issomething that I learned both
from my own experience and fromseeing from the work that I've
done with clients, which issometimes you just have to
(05:52):
engage.
The process Meaning just doingthe work allows us to create a
self-feeding back mechanismwhere we're getting feedback by
virtue of the experience ofdoing the thing and then, as
we're doing the thing, we couldsay oh you know what, last time
(06:12):
I did it this way.
That didn't really work for me.
Well, you know what?
I did it this way and I think Iwant to tweak some things.
Maybe I went too fast, maybe Iwent too slow, maybe this isn't
really the right way to handlethis situation.
You know, last time I decidedto put up more boundaries in my
relationship, I see that itcreated some isolation.
Maybe I need to be a littlesofter, a little more gentle.
(06:34):
But the only way I would learnany of this stuff is only by
gathering data, having empiricalevidence that can demonstrate
to me whether what I'm doing ornot correct, not correct, what
I'm doing or not correct, notcorrect, needs to be modified in
any way, and there's noescaping the life's experience
(06:55):
of just doing the thing, doingthe work, engaging the process.
There's no escape from doingthis in order to continue to
refine, sharpen, to honeunderstanding of what is the
best way for me to handle anygiven situation and therefore,
(07:15):
understanding and accepting thatmistakes, failures, errors,
shortcomings are absolutelyessential part of this journey.
So often people seem to beafraid they might fail, some
people are afraid to succeed andbecause of these fears we stay
bound to our seats, to ourposture, we don't wander outside
(07:39):
the box, we don't step out ofthe comfort zone, so to speak,
and so instead we preserve thestatus quo, which is another way
of saying we kill off thefuture possibilities, especially
the future versions ofourselves that are waiting for
us to come closer towards thatself-actualized being.
(08:03):
I was once listening to LesBrown, a famous motivational
speaker.
He said imagine lying on yourdeathbed, and surrounding you on
your deathbed are the ghosts ofthe potentials not realized,
and they come to you and theysay you were supposed to become
(08:23):
a great business person.
You were supposed to become anamazing teacher.
You were supposed to be meperson.
You were supposed to become anamazing teacher.
You were supposed to be me.
And now you lost thisopportunity because you were too
busy dealing with other things,or you never focused
sufficiently, or you were justparalyzed by fear, and because
of that, all that's left for youto see is the ghost of your
(08:44):
potential, the pain, thediscomfort, just the utter I
don't know what to call itsuffering I would feel inside if
I was lying on my deathbed andI saw these images of my
potentials not actualized, andso to wake up in the morning and
say I might be rejected.
Today, somebody might be upsetat me today.
(09:04):
I might hurt somebody'sfeelings today, but then to
immediately follow up to thatnoise, heard somebody's feelings
today, but then to immediatelyfollow up to that voice, yes,
that's true.
But that those failures andthose shortcomings are the gifts
with which I will grow, I willpersevere, I will blossom.
And therefore, working on therelationship, especially in this
(09:27):
month, the month ofrelationships, right, we're
always sad.
Well, give benefit of the doubtto other people.
You see somebody, you want tojudge them.
Try to give benefit of thedoubt first before you make a
negative conclusion.
Right, try to look at people inpositive light, encourage
people, help people feelempowered, believe in the
(09:48):
possibilities of the future.
And I want to just turn thatlight around and shine it right
back and say well, what about us?
Do we treat ourselves that way?
Do we view ourselves that way?
You know what.
It takes courage, it takesperseverance, it takes
(10:08):
resilience, it takes real mentaljudo.
I feel like I'm sometimes in thejudo studio in my mind to
engage in these battles withinternal thoughts and the
negative beliefs and thelimiting beliefs and all the
naysaying and all the voicestrying to call out and say don't
go there, I'm telling youthere's nothing waiting there
(10:30):
for you but bad news.
And I say but maybe not, butwhat if?
But what if I'll be surprised?
What if there's something elsebehind that door?
What if I will discover atotally different possibility or
perspective on what is reallygoing on?
And instead of just settling onmy own predetermined outcome
(10:52):
that I've already painted formyself, instead, what if I did
turn to the world ofpossibilities and said this is
so beyond me, the world is somuch bigger than me.
This is all just my own made upexperience in my mind.
And so the question thatbecomes is why does our mind do
this?
Why do we lean towards negativethoughts, pessimism, limiting
(11:18):
beliefs, questioning anddoubting ourselves?
Why do we do this?
And enters the scene the veryinteresting character it's
really our Siamese twin, whichwe are going to call the ego.
Ego has a fascinating andamazing role in our lives.
On the one hand, it isconditioned, trained, to protect
(11:41):
us.
Everything ego does is toensure our survival.
Even though, culturally, we'venow associated the word ego with
being selfish, beingself-centered and there is truth
to that there is such a thingas a really unhealthy ego.
However, it's still veryimportant to be able to
understand how ego works and,more importantly, that in order
(12:03):
to succeed in this game of life,we will need to learn how to
recruit the ego to serve us, tobe on our team, to help us go
through this journey.
There is a way to do thisprocess, and this is where it
really really comes in thisjourney of relating to ourselves
(12:25):
.
How do we relate to ourselves?
How do we process the eternalresistances and the challenges?
And um trying to push off, umengaging our life to the fullest
?
How do we overcome all of thesethings?
And I don't think the answer isgoing to be to push ourselves
(12:49):
to bulldoze through the struggle.
I'm just going to suck it up.
I'm going to push my way to theoutcome.
First of all, you won't be ableto commit for too long.
First of all, you won't be ableto commit for too long.
Ego doesn't like to be putthrough that level of push
against resistance, challenge.
Instead, what it has to becomeis that ego has to realize that
(13:12):
it plays an invaluable role inour lives, and so the first
thing that people often do isthey'll say oh, why am I doing
this?
Because I felt insecure, right,that's ego.
Ego saying I'm not comfortable,don't go there.
Or people say I'm afraid of thecritic, I'm afraid of the voice
of the critic.
And again, right, the ego isbasically saying look, I'm here
(13:35):
to protect you, you're not goingto like what the critic has to
say.
And once again, the opportunitythat is being presented is how
can we turn to the ego and sayyou know what?
I appreciate so much everythingyou've done for me until now?
I know you've flagged things toprotect me.
You've insulted people toprotect me.
(13:57):
You've found flaws in others,you told me why I shouldn't go
in this direction or the otherdirection, and all because your
ultimate goal was to protect me,because you know that down the
road there may be waiting realpain, there may be waiting real
discomfort, and so when you mademe do those things, sometimes
it wasn't just purely to beselfish and mean to others.
(14:20):
It was genuinely to protect meand us from getting hurt.
And I now want you to know thatI want to move forward and I
don't want to continue living inthis way.
I don't only want to live on anego level of my existence, I
want to live on a soul level ofmy existence, and my soul is so
(14:43):
much bigger than my existence.
I want to live on the soullevel of my existence and my
soul is so much bigger than myego.
My soul is a depository ofeverything all my talents, my
potentials, everything that Icould become and be and do in
this world, things that willgive me joy and meaning and
purpose and ego.
I know you're there to flag allthese things and you curve my
excitement and enthusiasm andambition because you're nervous,
(15:05):
you're afraid what will happen,what's going to be, and it's
very understandable, but I wantyou to know, now that I'm here
to serve the world and I want toshare with the world my gifts
and my talents and the giftsthat God gave me, to share with
this world, and I want to beable to do that, and I want to
be able to do that without theego, and not that you are not
(15:28):
important anymore.
You are important.
You give me a certain purposeand meaning, but I want to do
this as co-creators with God,and so what we're going to do is
, instead of worrying about howthe world is going to react, why
don't we redirect that energyand focus on how we could serve
from this place?
How can I serve God fromwhatever circumstance he puts me
(15:51):
into.
If, right now, I have to dealwith children and they're
screaming, how can I serve Godfrom this place?
If I'm dealing with tension inmy relationship, how can I serve
God from this place?
If I'm dealing with tension inmy relationship, how can I serve
God from this place If I wantto share with the world
something that's been on myheart and my mind?
Not because for me, for fame,for money, for recognition, for
(16:12):
clicks, for a number of views.
I just want to share thisbecause it's me attempting to
co-create with God.
It's me touching my divine soul, through which I feel
connection to the world, tomyself.
And the only way I could trulyaccess it is when I ask the ego
to step aside and to trust methat we're going to be okay,
(16:35):
we're going to get through this.
And you know, from time to timeego will get jumpy and
dysregulated and concerned andnervous, and in those moments
it's not time to demonize theego, to judge it, but it's that
to say thank you, thank you.
I know right now you're here andyou're acting up to protect me
and I just want you to know thatwe're going to be okay.
(16:56):
We're going to be okay.
We have all the tools we need.
We have all the capacities,potentials gifts are needed are
all right here in my toolbox,inside of me, that I can use and
co-create with God and createsomething beautiful and special,
something that will impact theworld and not impact the world
(17:17):
on my terms, but impact theworld based on whatever God
believes needs to be impacted.
I give it all back and this wayI get to live a life of service
where I can experience bothfeelings.
I can experience a sense ofmeaning and purpose and value,
while at the same time seeingthat in the bigger picture of it
all, I'm just another personpassing through life.
(17:41):
However, I can serve the worldas a fellow traveler, then let
it be according to God's wishesand let the impact be whatever
it's meant to be.
Hello everybody, welcome back to part four of the
month of relationships, andthis time we have one more
relationship to talk about Notan easy relationship to talk
about and that is therelationship between us and
ourselves.
And I want to start withsharing with you a story of
(00:21):
something that just happened tome literally three, four days
ago.
There is a mountain with abeautiful hike that I went
climbing on and literally within10 to 15 minutes of the climb,
the elevation was significantlyhigh and allowed me to have a
(00:41):
beautiful view of thesurrounding area of the mountain
.
And all of a sudden, my eyesfixated on seeing in the
distance all these little thingsmoving at significant speed.
And then I realized that theywere cars on the local highway.
And as I stared at them and fora minute almost felt the
(01:04):
sensation of looking at like anant farm, because they were so
small in their appearance, justtiny objects moving, and many of
them so almost uniform.
Because there were so many carsmoving in both directions of
the highway and out of nowhere,the following question popped up
in my mind Will anybody careabout me?
(01:26):
Will anybody notice me?
And for a minute there there wasthis uncomfortable feeling of
that really, truly in the bigpicture of life.
Are any of these peoplepreoccupied, thinking about me
or other people in life?
And if they are, who are theythinking about me or other
people in life?
And if they are, who are theythinking about?
Most likely people thatactually matter to them, people
(01:49):
they care about.
As I probably would do the same, how much will I be thinking
about people in those carspassing by?
Probably forgot them five, fiveto ten minutes after, seeing
those cars moving and this heavyreality settled in of nobody's
really going to care about meother than me, I need to be the
(02:13):
one to care about myself, and itwas such an interesting concept
because we live in the world ofrelationships and very often
people are spending their entirelives surrounded by
relationships, and to a degreethat there isn't even an
opportunity to actually take thetime and be able to spend time
(02:36):
with oneself and appreciatehaving a relationship with one's
own inner world, whether it'sthrough artistic expression or
creative expression that may belying deep inside us.
Instead of doing that, we're sobusy either interacting with
the relationships we alreadyhave or spending a lot of time
(02:58):
on social media and otheroutlets that take us away and
essentially create anenvironment of anything but time
for myself, anything butrelationship with myself.
Today, even people like to throwaround the phrase self-care.
I have to make sure I do someself-care, which to me is
basically a fancy way of sayingcarve out some time to be with
(03:21):
you, time to be with you, andit's amazing how much flows out
of that space, the more there isa sense of I love myself, and
not from egotistical standpointof you, not, it's all about me,
others should be hurt.
(03:41):
I'm hoping to go into a littlemore depth on ego and its role
in our lives, but I'm talkingright now about just one
perspective of hey, there's areal me in there, there's a real
person with uniqueness andpotential and hope and optimism
and creative ideas about how todo this thing called life.
(04:05):
And instead of being able tospend time connecting to that
voice and not only connecting toit but even giving it
expression, going even one stepfurther, like really truly
giving expression to that voiceInstead I'm busy constantly with
an output.
There's always either somethingto learn or another podcast to
(04:26):
listen to, another voice to getinto my brain, but nothing in my
soul.
See, because it seems to mefrom all the adventures I've
been on and all the approachesI've taken.
What so far has come clear tome is that there is time to take
in information, to learn and togrow, but then there's also
(04:49):
time to grow.
That is really a transformation, namely an experience in which
me creating something, mereaching into myself, finding my
inner voice and, yes, manytimes through trial and error
and through stumbling andfumbling my way through
(05:09):
experiences, experiments, ideas,but through that process I get
to learn more about myself.
I go through an importantself-discovery journey that
allows me to learn how to bewiser and how to be better at
handling various situations inlife.
(05:30):
I was recently speaking to aclient.
The client says but I don'tknow how to access my own inner
voice, I don't know what if it'sthe wrong thing.
And the answer I gave issomething that I learned both
from my own experience and fromseeing from the work that I've
done with clients, which issometimes you just have to
(05:52):
engage.
The process Meaning just doingthe work allows us to create a
self-feeding back mechanismwhere we're getting feedback by
virtue of the experience ofdoing the thing and then, as
we're doing the thing, we couldsay oh you know what, last time
(06:12):
I did it this way.
That didn't really work for me.
Well, you know what?
I did it this way and I think Iwant to tweak some things.
Maybe I went too fast, maybe Iwent too slow, maybe this isn't
really the right way to handlethis situation.
You know, last time I decidedto put up more boundaries in my
relationship, I see that itcreated some isolation.
Maybe I need to be a littlesofter, a little more gentle.
(06:34):
But the only way I would learnany of this stuff is only by
gathering data, having empiricalevidence that can demonstrate
to me whether what I'm doing ornot correct, not correct, what
I'm doing or not correct, notcorrect, needs to be modified in
any way, and there's noescaping the life's experience
(06:55):
of just doing the thing, doingthe work, engaging the process.
There's no escape from doingthis in order to continue to
refine, sharpen, to honeunderstanding of what is the
best way for me to handle anygiven situation and therefore,
(07:15):
understanding and accepting thatmistakes, failures, errors,
shortcomings are absolutelyessential part of this journey.
So often people seem to beafraid they might fail, some
people are afraid to succeed andbecause of these fears we stay
bound to our seats, to ourposture, we don't wander outside
(07:39):
the box, we don't step out ofthe comfort zone, so to speak,
and so instead we preserve thestatus quo, which is another way
of saying we kill off thefuture possibilities, especially
the future versions ofourselves that are waiting for
us to come closer towards thatself-actualized being.
(08:03):
I was once listening to LesBrown, a famous motivational
speaker.
He said imagine lying on yourdeathbed, and surrounding you on
your deathbed are the ghosts ofthe potentials not realized,
and they come to you and theysay you were supposed to become
(08:23):
a great business person.
You were supposed to become anamazing teacher.
You were supposed to be meperson.
You were supposed to become anamazing teacher.
You were supposed to be me.
And now you lost thisopportunity because you were too
busy dealing with other things,or you never focused
sufficiently, or you were justparalyzed by fear, and because
of that, all that's left for youto see is the ghost of your
(08:44):
potential, the pain, thediscomfort, just the utter I
don't know what to call itsuffering I would feel inside if
I was lying on my deathbed andI saw these images of my
potentials not actualized, andso to wake up in the morning and
say I might be rejected.
Today, somebody might be upsetat me today.
(09:04):
I might hurt somebody'sfeelings today, but then to
immediately follow up to thatnoise, heard somebody's feelings
today, but then to immediatelyfollow up to that voice, yes,
that's true.
But that those failures andthose shortcomings are the gifts
with which I will grow, I willpersevere, I will blossom.
And therefore, working on therelationship, especially in this
(09:27):
month, the month ofrelationships, right, we're
always sad.
Well, give benefit of the doubtto other people.
You see somebody, you want tojudge them.
Try to give benefit of thedoubt first before you make a
negative conclusion.
Right, try to look at people inpositive light, encourage
people, help people feelempowered, believe in the
(09:48):
possibilities of the future.
And I want to just turn thatlight around and shine it right
back and say well, what about us?
Do we treat ourselves that way?
Do we view ourselves that way?
You know what.
It takes courage, it takesperseverance, it takes
(10:08):
resilience, it takes real mentaljudo.
I feel like I'm sometimes in thejudo studio in my mind to
engage in these battles withinternal thoughts and the
negative beliefs and thelimiting beliefs and all the
naysaying and all the voicestrying to call out and say don't
go there, I'm telling youthere's nothing waiting there
(10:30):
for you but bad news.
And I say but maybe not, butwhat if?
But what if I'll be surprised?
What if there's something elsebehind that door?
What if I will discover atotally different possibility or
perspective on what is reallygoing on?
And instead of just settling onmy own predetermined outcome
(10:52):
that I've already painted formyself, instead, what if I did
turn to the world ofpossibilities and said this is
so beyond me, the world is somuch bigger than me.
This is all just my own made upexperience in my mind.
And so the question thatbecomes is why does our mind do
this?
Why do we lean towards negativethoughts, pessimism, limiting
(11:18):
beliefs, questioning anddoubting ourselves?
Why do we do this?
And enters the scene the veryinteresting character it's
really our Siamese twin, whichwe are going to call the ego.
Ego has a fascinating andamazing role in our lives.
On the one hand, it isconditioned, trained, to protect
(11:41):
us.
Everything ego does is toensure our survival.
Even though, culturally, we'venow associated the word ego with
being selfish, beingself-centered and there is truth
to that there is such a thingas a really unhealthy ego.
However, it's still veryimportant to be able to
understand how ego works and,more importantly, that in order
(12:03):
to succeed in this game of life,we will need to learn how to
recruit the ego to serve us, tobe on our team, to help us go
through this journey.
There is a way to do thisprocess, and this is where it
really really comes in thisjourney of relating to ourselves
(12:25):
.
How do we relate to ourselves?
How do we process the eternalresistances and the challenges?
And um trying to push off, umengaging our life to the fullest
?
How do we overcome all of thesethings?
And I don't think the answer isgoing to be to push ourselves
(12:49):
to bulldoze through the struggle.
I'm just going to suck it up.
I'm going to push my way to theoutcome.
First of all, you won't be ableto commit for too long.
First of all, you won't be ableto commit for too long.
Ego doesn't like to be putthrough that level of push
against resistance, challenge.
Instead, what it has to becomeis that ego has to realize that
(13:12):
it plays an invaluable role inour lives, and so the first
thing that people often do isthey'll say oh, why am I doing
this?
Because I felt insecure, right,that's ego.
Ego saying I'm not comfortable,don't go there.
Or people say I'm afraid of thecritic, I'm afraid of the voice
of the critic.
And again, right, the ego isbasically saying look, I'm here
(13:35):
to protect you, you're not goingto like what the critic has to
say.
And once again, the opportunitythat is being presented is how
can we turn to the ego and sayyou know what?
I appreciate so much everythingyou've done for me until now?
I know you've flagged things toprotect me.
You've insulted people toprotect me.
(13:57):
You've found flaws in others,you told me why I shouldn't go
in this direction or the otherdirection, and all because your
ultimate goal was to protect me,because you know that down the
road there may be waiting realpain, there may be waiting real
discomfort, and so when you mademe do those things, sometimes
it wasn't just purely to beselfish and mean to others.
(14:20):
It was genuinely to protect meand us from getting hurt.
And I now want you to know thatI want to move forward and I
don't want to continue living inthis way.
I don't only want to live on anego level of my existence, I
want to live on a soul level ofmy existence, and my soul is so
(14:43):
much bigger than my existence.
I want to live on the soullevel of my existence and my
soul is so much bigger than myego.
My soul is a depository ofeverything all my talents, my
potentials, everything that Icould become and be and do in
this world, things that willgive me joy and meaning and
purpose and ego.
I know you're there to flag allthese things and you curve my
excitement and enthusiasm andambition because you're nervous,
(15:05):
you're afraid what will happen,what's going to be, and it's
very understandable, but I wantyou to know, now that I'm here
to serve the world and I want toshare with the world my gifts
and my talents and the giftsthat God gave me, to share with
this world, and I want to beable to do that, and I want to
be able to do that without theego, and not that you are not
(15:28):
important anymore.
You are important.
You give me a certain purposeand meaning, but I want to do
this as co-creators with God,and so what we're going to do is
, instead of worrying about howthe world is going to react, why
don't we redirect that energyand focus on how we could serve
from this place?
How can I serve God fromwhatever circumstance he puts me
(15:51):
into.
If, right now, I have to dealwith children and they're
screaming, how can I serve Godfrom this place?
If I'm dealing with tension inmy relationship, how can I serve
God from this place?
If I'm dealing with tension inmy relationship, how can I serve
God from this place If I wantto share with the world
something that's been on myheart and my mind?
Not because for me, for fame,for money, for recognition, for
(16:12):
clicks, for a number of views.
I just want to share thisbecause it's me attempting to
co-create with God.
It's me touching my divine soul, through which I feel
connection to the world, tomyself.
And the only way I could trulyaccess it is when I ask the ego
to step aside and to trust methat we're going to be okay,
(16:35):
we're going to get through this.
And you know, from time to timeego will get jumpy and
dysregulated and concerned andnervous, and in those moments
it's not time to demonize theego, to judge it, but it's that
to say thank you, thank you.
I know right now you're here andyou're acting up to protect me
and I just want you to know thatwe're going to be okay.
(16:56):
We're going to be okay.
We have all the tools we need.
We have all the capacities,potentials gifts are needed are
all right here in my toolbox,inside of me, that I can use and
co-create with God and createsomething beautiful and special,
something that will impact theworld and not impact the world
(17:17):
on my terms, but impact theworld based on whatever God
believes needs to be impacted.
I give it all back and this wayI get to live a life of service
where I can experience bothfeelings.
I can experience a sense ofmeaning and purpose and value,
while at the same time seeingthat in the bigger picture of it
all, I'm just another personpassing through life.
(17:41):
However, I can serve the worldas a fellow traveler, then let
it be according to God's wishesand let the impact be whatever
it's meant to be.
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