Review: Chapter Nineteen
The Cycle:
The road map For the Rest of your Life.
This is only one inning, not
the whole Game.
Our problem in playing the Game of Life is that we play each
round as if it were the whole game when, in fact, it's only one inning in an
endless game. We get upset when we're forced to face the fact that we don't
really have it "made in the shade" now that we've reached our goal.
We get stuck, because we lack an overview that would allow us
to see the HAVING part of the BE DO HAVE process as the end of an inning, not
the end of the game.
A new perspective will allow us to see that HAVING what we
want has no real value compared to the growth in consciousness that results
from each new trip around the game board. Wanting to be richer and happier is
our motivation for moving to the next level of the game. Choosing to BE rich
is not something about which you need to feel guilty.
One of the most interesting and misunderstood
passages of the
bible is the one that reads:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than
for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Since a camel could not possibly go through the eye of a
needle, most of us interpret that bible passage to mean that you can't be rich
and go to heaven. But that's not what it means at all.
Back when Christ said this, most cities had an inner and outer
wall. The inner wall had an opening shaped like the eye of a needle--an
opening too small for a loaded camel to pass through. To take his favorite
camel into the inner city for the night, the rich man was forced to unload it.
Notice that unloading his riches outside the wall did not make him poor.
The load on YOUR camel.
If you think rich people are the only ones with a loaded came,
think again. Metaphorically speaking, whatever you've become attached to--your
job, a relationship, your way of life, your victim story--that's the load on
your camel's back. Whatever you've made more important than being free and out
of your box is your wealth. What that bible quote should mean to you is:
To find that greater dimension of your own being,
you must
first unload your camel.
As I said earlier,
You will never have what you want from life, until
you're ready to give up your attachment to not having it.
Have you realized that you
are attached to not having it?
The Cycle of CREATE, PERSIST, DESTROY really is the road map for
the rest of your life. The sooner you become aware of where you are on the
cycle, the sooner you can take charge of your life.
The above came from Chapter Nineteen of
"BEING THE SOLUTION".
