In this class of
inquiry,
perhaps the first order of
business
is to establish ie lay down a
healthy
skepticism - like an intrigue: how is it
possible,
that whatever
transformation
is, it seems to manifest in so many different
ways
and in such varied
experiences
for so many different
people?
Why can ours not be a
question
with a one size fits allanswer?
Why can't it be a "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" type
question?
Here's the thing: it can, also.
What's available to us
human beings
is
rich,
lovingrelationships,
vibrant
health,
and full
Self-expression
in
ways
we once couldn't even
dream
were
possible.
But all of the above comes with a price. A price? Yes:
it's you have to be willing to
step
away from who you've always held yourself to be, then
standopenly
in the
possibility
of
being transformed.
That may not be
easy
(listen:
there's
nothing
intrinsically
easy
about
transformation:
it may be
simple,
but it isn't always
easy).
I searched through the
original
packaging I came in, and I'm
clear
I didn't come with an instruction manual
(believe
me: my first few
decades
are ample, belabored, bruised proof of that). With
transformation
comes the very
realpossibility
of
getting
our hands and feet on the levers, dials, switches, and pedals of
the
machine,
and with that, the
possibility
of not merely
livingeasier
but of actually cruising - on all eight cylinders. I
just turned 68. So I figure I've got another 30 or 40 years of
cruising left. What I want to
say
about that (ie what I
got
from it) is:
stopmessing
about! We're running out of
time.
Life is almost
over!
From
now
on, live your life as if your life depends on it.
