Daily Quotes - Week 1

People sometimes turn powerful conversation into jargon expecting it to communicate without the work in the background that gets it to mean something substantial.

Very few people live like they belong to the people they live with, to the people around them, to something bigger than them, to what fulfills life, to whatever gives all of us. And over and over, people's best times are when they weren't serving their own agenda, when they weren't stuck in their own thing, when they belonged to something, when they understood themselves as not owning themselves, not private and separate, not disconnected.

And yet, when they go to do the next thing, they do it from the orientation of, I'm me, I'm mine, it's up to me, I can make my own choices, I can make my own decisions, I can do whatever I want to do, I'm in my own world.

Understanding this and nodding your head is trivial. What's really important is what shapes how we live, and I'm inviting you into that and asking you to listen that way.

Personhood (the self as a personal identity) thinks that if it is well meaning about something and sincere, it ought to work out, and that is a sucker's game.

How many times have you been offended by life where you thought things should work out because you were well meaning and you were sincere? You really wanted it to work out and you were willing and it didn't work out, and you decided that something was wrong about life because of that.

Nobody is asking you to deal with everything, all the time. We are asking you to deal with the one thing that is up from all of it, and that is scalable and can be done.

So, if you're struggling as if you're making a crossing the Rubicon type choice, as though we're offering you something you cannot ever fulfill, that doesn't represent us. We're not asking you for that.

That's a personhood protection telling you: This is too dangerous to deal with. It's too big. Let me show you how small you are and why historically you've never been able to accomplish this.

We don't have the brain power or the physiological capability to be creative all the time. But, in doing everything from memory, from storage, from body patterns, from habit, from repeat performances, there is something a little dead about that.

How do you organize a life so that you've got the right storage to draw on and the right creativity to bring to bear, that can be done and maintained and you don't set yourself up to have to generate more than you can, and where you don't set yourself up to expect more from habit than it is going to provide.

Where's the sweet spot? Where's the right integration of those two? That's a question that is essential to fulfilling life.