This is one of a coordinated set of questions examined in our series,Soar To The Top, which identifies successful habits of Supreme Champions and the roles each habit plays marking such lives as particularly significant and-or accomplished. Implicit in this question are a number of intriguing possibilities and profitable discoveries.
That one is meant to be, for example!
Does this 'meant to be' imply the existence of a dictate at the onset of one's life which establishes a person's exclusive role or purpose for being? Does it imply some intention personally revealed or internalised that one would be best advised to focus on completing? Is it provocative of an identity crisis requiring urgent clarification, i.e., that what has already been defined (mysteriously or communally or ancestrally) is what one ought to be working on becoming? Intriguing: what are you meant to be?
That one becomes, for example!
Does this imply a transformation, as is a caterpillar becoming a butterfly? Does it imply an inevitable growing into, given time, as is a girl becoming a woman? Does it imply a moulding, if chosen, as is clay becoming an earthen bowl? Does it imply a mastering, once called to service, as is a person becoming a soldier? Are you in the process of becoming?
What if, for example!
Is this a call to reconsider? Is this a call to decision? Is this a call to correction? Is this a call to possibility? Is this a call to action? Fascinating! How are you responding?
Yes, what if you become what you are meant to be?
But what if one does not become what one is meant to be? Just as fascinating, isn't it? We've heard it said that some folks die at 19 and are not buried until they are 99. Umph, nicknamed, the Living Dead. Where do you stand on this?
Are you more in line with the thinking that there is a 'that which' you are meant to be, or do you accept that the prerogative of being and becoming are entirely yours to design however and whenever you choose? Do you believe who you are and what you become are bounded by the realities of your particular existence?
Clarity is enormously helpful.
Absent clarity, our process, our actions, our considerations, our decisions, may well be quantum-leaping unawares back-and-forth, up-and-down, round-and-round, throughout our journey. Such would be an unstable state. Not a solid foundation for a positive launch to higher ground!
Actions tell our story. Behaviors reflect true beliefs. Writings on one's wall, per se, are just that: writings, projections, pretty pictures; framed awareness of the way one ought to be or wants to be seen to be. Behavior speaks. Our behavior tells us who we are. And that is awesome clarity.
When we know better we are in an informed state to do better, for we have agency; the choice becomes ours. It is a feature of growth. Growth is valuable. Owning our worth is invaluable. Gratitude to the marvelous mind with which we are endowed. For epic we need balance, focus, and rhythm, three pivotal actions that are exponentially transformative.
Let's take focus for our first pass.
Perhaps we can use our modern understanding of the sun, its unique characteristics, to enlighten us. In no way do we suggest anthromorphising our sun or personalizing our sun. Doing that would distract us from the raw power of attributes we might otherwise find useful. It is plausible, however, to consider what is sun-like along our inner-journey or throughout our lifestyle, and use what we may learn about our sun to widen our vision, to see more clearly, to sharpen our focus, to empower our minds.
Give it a shot.
Epic is grand. Epic is adventurous. Epic is heroic. Epic is legendary. Epic is beautiful. A hero finds the strength to persevere in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Hard times do not create heroes; it is during the hard times that the hero within is revealed. A hero is selfless, generous in spirit, who serves others, who deeply cares. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." Joseph Campbell. Let history decide the hero. Nevertheless, even now some of us can identify heroes who touched and-or changed our lives. They changed our world for the better. Are any of these our vision of what it is to be in the mould of epic?
Embrace AUTHENTICExperiences.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." _ Ralph Waldo Emmerson
There is who we think we need to be and there is who we really are. Knowing who we really are positions us ideally to progress to who we purpose ourself to be. You being the best you probably implies you are contented - your needs are being satisfied; you are happy - you are enjoying life; you have empathy; you are at peace; you have a beautiful mind; you are serving a cause that is worthy of you and bigger than yourself. And should you want your history to be mirrored as one who lived an epic life you are one who has the courage and the chutzpah to persevere in spite of overwhelming odds.
But what if that isn't so?
Be who you are. Let your light shine. Perhaps you are becoming. Perhaps as with us you are learning something valuable from the characteristics of our sun, and rising into a new light, recognizing some of the wonders of our mind which facilitates us in extraordinary ways.
ELEVATE - ELEVATE - ELEVATE
I AM because YOU ARE YOU ARE because I AM
Welcome to SEASON EIGHT, 'An Epic Life' - Episode 1 - Marvelous Mind - curated by Neville DeAngelou. During this episode we are fascinated by the facility of our minds, particularly through the remarkable capability of the brain and how it avails itself to our intelligence and desires, as one grows into who one wants to become, the way one may want to experience that becoming. It is absolutely fascinating.
We are a peculiar people, you and I, intricately interwoven (internally, externally), marvelously made, unique, inventive, rich, exceptionally versatile, endowed with remarkable minds.
It is a pertinent question, be you a carer or a provider.
How would you respond?
As children, we were dependent upon the sufficiency of others for our care and safety, a status that changes with growth. There in lies the rub. And the wonder! Have our mindsets shifted in alignment? Have our beliefs grown accordingly? What do our behaviors reflect?
What are you experiencing?
Where do you stand?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
We are WIDE OPEN wholly responsible for making our world a better place.
Today's pivot QUESTION: you've been plucked, gracefully, from where you are and lifted into an amazing place you approve of, where everything weighing you down or that has troubled you or causes you to devalue yourself or delays you in anyway is promptly removed - miraculously - gone - you are completely new while remaining fully enriched (all of your valued experiences and learnings and wisdom are in tack); and in that altered state you are advised (inspirationally so) to picture your new life - a life worth living hence forward - experienced just as you'd prefer it to be recorded and left for all eternity, and you picture this life that is worth your living - hold that picture - for you are then brought gently to where you are right now, and here you are, fresh and totally new:
should you consider yourself becoming (in a nourishing state of growth), where are you in that process and how are you being groomed for what you will become?
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We model what to want.
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." _ Mohandas Gandhi
Why not examine your life from a different angle?
As much as is affordable for matters that matter, afford yourself a 360 degree view. You may find this of great value in ways you had not imagined nor known to account for. It is highly probable you will also encounter awesome insights that are of no relevance to who you are or what you are about, and that you will make observations you are ill-equipped to comprehend. It is highly likely you will encounter delightful delusions, and disconcerting illusions, and lots of bs disguised as helpful secrets. It may very well not be incumbent upon you to contest or combat any of these, but they will inform you, and will assuredly put upon you the onus to be ever more discerning and to be ever smarter with your decisions and clearer with your intentions, for all in all these will profitably test your faith and mirror your trust, and render you that much better. As much as is affordable for matters that matter, afford yourself a 360 degree view.
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Potentiality
"An infinity of forests lies dormant in the dream of an accorn."
Learn how to behave in the most fuctional ways to achieve your goals.
Remember: it is YOUR LIFE; only you can live it. Regardless, you do not walk alone, and the sun will rise. Caught amidst the crisscrossing of crowds along your journey where many may habitually conflate or mistake or confuse the bottle for its medicine, the pot for its food, the pipe for its water, you may be excused for feeling you know better therefore you will do better, yet still be blissfully unware that such habits as detailed are a mind-creep, unaware you may be already mistaking music for radio. Even so, it proves wise to be ever aware: this is your life, ONLY YOU can live it. Living is pocked with contradictions and conspiracies, and sometimes it is grace that takes us through. Find your balance. Find your rhythm. Find your focus. Flourish.
A sensible lifestyle.
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"Know what you own. Understand what you claim. Believe you can achieve what you conceive then call it by its name. Mine! The extent to which you have this clarity of mind, this purity of understanding, this strength of belief, you have the fire, the fuel, the impetus, the passion, the determination, the willpower you require to pursue and retrieve your truest desire. But do not claim what does not belong to you. It will not keep you . . . it will suffer you but for only so long."
You are valued. You are important. What you experience is important. Your intention matters. You are a whole being. You are a true wonder. You diminish yourself whenever you pit valued elements of who you are against vital elements of who you are: your intuitive self against your intellectual self, your rational self against your emotional self, your gut against your heart against your head. Don't be put at war against yourself: you are a masterpiece. An intricate being. Human!
Discovering: sobering realities
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Life: it is a dance. It gets better with practice; its music is in your heart and in your soul and in your blood and in your bones. Life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. You have a partner – your spirit. You can have a party if you like, but choose smartly who you invite, for life – your life – is a dance. It gets better with practice, unless you stop the music or so crowd your dance floor there is no space to move or be moved within it. Explore. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice until the dance becomes the dancer and the dancer becomes the dance and life and all of existence becomes a singular flow. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. Dance.
Masterpiece
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Be at Home with Yourself
Home is a special place. Love resides there. The best journeys take you there. Hope lives there. Home leaves no question about belonging. Friends belong there. Dreams thrive there. Home is a place of forgiveness. There is no rejection there. Home is a place of rest and recuperation and rejuvination. There is laughter there. Life takes you to unexpected places; love brings you home. At home you are free to flourish. It is where you birthed your wings. Sing your way home. We live amongst viruses and bacteria: some are villains and some are monsters. Monsters breed. Villains are everywhere; you are ever in their sights. Be prepared: find your rhythm, stay in balance, keep your values and your vision in focus. Choose your friends wisely. Choose folks who are good for your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Allow your beauty to reflect the light you let in. Be all of you. Enjoy the fullness of your sacred space - Home. Enjoy sunrise.
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
expand your mind
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live
laugh
love
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let your light shine
Live. Laugh. Love.
Come, let us all be friends for once,
Let us make life easy on us,
Let us be lovers and loved ones,
The earth shall be left to no one.
Across the nation and around the world there is a long rumble.
It is a rumble so loud it strikes ready ears as a distant clap of a fierce thunder. It is a rumble so low, it rides beneath the noise of a thousand human fears; it can no longer be heard. Fear of flight, fear of heights, fear of sand, fear of snow, fear of monsters in the closet, fear of bugs in the pillow, fear of cats, fear of bats, fear of strangers at the door, fear of being lost, fear of being laughed at, fear of being stuck in the toilet bowl, fear of whites, fear of blacks, fear of browns, blues and yellows, fear of nakedness, fear of the unknown, fear of being hurt.
Smile. Live. Love. Laugh. Look. Listen. Learn. Be awesome. You are powerful beyond measure. You are not alone. You can do all things. I am you. You are me. We are one. Keep Sharing.
May our light shine on sprinkled seeds along The Journey.
"Live Your Life - Live it well. You are worth it."
Listen. Learn. Lead.
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up." Martin Luther King Jr. Look. Listen. Learn. YOU ARE A MASTERPIECE. Cherish Mastery. (A Place Called Ah.)
Breathe.
We are accompanied.
Balance - Focus - Rhythm
BE EVER REMINDED:the life you are living is YOUR life; ONLY YOU can live it!
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