gypsy, and lightning-bolt bearer. That means, for instance, that when well-meaning folks sug- gested conventional means like business plans, I tried not to start speaking in tongues or bite them. Still, I craved commercial success, recognition, and reach, so I turned to marketing advice, success books and popular titles in the business, self-help, and motiva- tional world. But the more I read, the more disillusioned I felt. I had finally found a dream that gave me life—but everything I read about succeeding in it felt soul-numb- ing. I just knew I had the mojo, but “the getting it out there,” the pipelines to income and opportu- nities, seemed to be governed by a mechanical, harsh, or clannishly linear world. It didn’t matter if I had twelve thousand diamonds; the jewelers wore blindfolds. Everything made it clear that real success required what I didn’t have, and without a “mind meld” with Anthony Robbins, Donald Trump or, say, “The Terminator” would never have.
But this is the truth I know now: taking what you love into the world has little to do with con- ventional techniques, established reality, or the formulas of the marketplace. Following your true desire or calling is an initiation of soul. It’s a rite of passage. It’s a whole new game board with exciting new rules. Bring your diamonds.
This is the question that divides the paths: Will you honor your Inspired Self or will you listen to the one who talks you down from the mountain and persuades you to adjust what you desire? Some- times the fearful, critical voice within poses as “good judgment”; it feels practical and reassuringly in sync with the prevailing culture around you. But is the opinion of an often empty, bitter, tired culture the voice of good judg- ment for you?
Let’s face it. There aren’t many voices in the world that will en- courage you to follow your inner
ired Self or will you listen to wn from the mountain and just what you desire?”
Like so many of us, I didn’t real- ize that I already possessed an inspired way to succeed. It hadn’t dawned on me yet that the elec- tricity that inspires our dreams also inspires the means.
rock star or anointed one and get out there on the window ledge of ordinary life, mock gravity, and fly. Yet some of us are just called to fly. We won’t succeed through traditional means because force,
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fear, and standard projections do not motivate us. We are moved by bold ideas, big love, and intui- tive, flawless direction. We hear new frequencies, promise, and urgencies wailing in the wind. We did not come here to do what’s been done before. We came here to expand—inspire, heal, express, create, and realize the exhilara- tion of being everything we are meant to be.
I should tell you right here that, personally, I struggled with the whole “trusting your inner voice thing,” or believing in a God, Inspired Self, Cosmic Coddler, or any energetic force beyond my five senses or the Dow Jones. A friend dubbed me “the reluctant mystic,” and it’s a true description. As an attorney I’d been trained in logic and liabilities. And as a once incredulous New Yorker, I felt like anything remotely transcendental was just a crutch for those who couldn’t cut it. But these days, I’d shout from the rooftops with a bullhorn, and elbow my way past the other fanatics to do it, because I see infinite possibil- ity as a torch and “reality” as the crutch. Still, trusting an invisible mechanism of genius or well- spring of new resources has often nettled my overindulged intellect. I suppose it’s what makes me a good teacher. Because if you have a bundle of suspicions and doubts, trust me, I’ve had a bigger knapsack.
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