One of the hardest things I have found to do is taking my learning back to a simpler time. A time before the searching, the books, the schools, the teachers. Back to Inside Myself. And harder still is learning the lessons to use with Myself. The only reason for posting it was to keep track of some of the simple things that others could read also. Though this is for myself, sharing it has always been the Way.
From the book Every Day Enlightenment by Dan Millman I wanted to pick out the few simple things that was following through each gateway. The things that I found I needed to focus on or work with before passing on to the next gate. I didn't just read on with each gate, I'm reading and re reading, high lighting the few things I wanted to be able to come back to easily as I went through what he has called The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth.
Like I said after reading the Four Agreements, it's real hard to go back to simple when you've learned to complicate life using everything you've heard or learned. I make that distinction because not everything I've heard or read I have learned.
Part of what I understood most in the beginning before you start the gateways was when Dan says "Imagine hiking up a mountain toward the summit of your potential. You begin with a knapsack filled with twelve heavy stones. As you pass through and resolve the challenges of each gateway, you release one of the stones, becoming lighter as you ascend.
That is what I feel like now as I pick up the 12 heaviest stones I can think of and begin a new journey. See you on the other side of the first gateway. About the time you think you know so much you find you need to let it all go. I've always been a person to have knowings and retained only what I needed in life. Sure use to envy some people who could remember facts, names, dates that stuff and rattle them back off. Then one day long ago some wise person said that some of us didn't need to carry all that extra stuff around because we were gifted with a internal memory of everything we'd need to know.
From the book Every Day Enlightenment by Dan Millman I wanted to pick out the few simple things that was following through each gateway. The things that I found I needed to focus on or work with before passing on to the next gate. I didn't just read on with each gate, I'm reading and re reading, high lighting the few things I wanted to be able to come back to easily as I went through what he has called The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth.
Like I said after reading the Four Agreements, it's real hard to go back to simple when you've learned to complicate life using everything you've heard or learned. I make that distinction because not everything I've heard or read I have learned.
Part of what I understood most in the beginning before you start the gateways was when Dan says "Imagine hiking up a mountain toward the summit of your potential. You begin with a knapsack filled with twelve heavy stones. As you pass through and resolve the challenges of each gateway, you release one of the stones, becoming lighter as you ascend.
That is what I feel like now as I pick up the 12 heaviest stones I can think of and begin a new journey. See you on the other side of the first gateway. About the time you think you know so much you find you need to let it all go. I've always been a person to have knowings and retained only what I needed in life. Sure use to envy some people who could remember facts, names, dates that stuff and rattle them back off. Then one day long ago some wise person said that some of us didn't need to carry all that extra stuff around because we were gifted with a internal memory of everything we'd need to know.
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