Re: Life Transformation
Originally Posted by
lycan
How do you make decisions?
I don't think I understand. I just decide. I don't have any method for doing it. I just decide, and later, if I find I'm not enjoying what I decided to do, I decide something else. I see something that looks interesting and I decide, "Yeah, I'd like to try that." Or I see something that needs to be done and I say, "Yeah, I guess I'll do that." There's really no process at all.
Originally Posted by
lycan
What I "want to do" is transform my life, to do things that I cannot do under current conditions.
Yes, I understand that.
And I've done that, which is why I was responding in this thread. I was speaking from the experience of having undergone a complete life transformation, including my name and citizenship. My life now is about as different as can be imagined from what it once was.
Originally Posted by
lycan
If I don't focus on having the life I want, even if just in my imagination, I have no motivation to do anything even remotely productive.
Living in the future rather than the present is no way to live, and you can't find a centre or a power base there. It's not impossible to consciously make changes in that state, but until you're well grounded in your present reality -- which, after all is said and done, you created -- it's quite difficult.
But releasing attachment is not the same thing as giving up. I'm sorry that I'm unable to communicate this in a way that makes sense to you.
Let me try a metaphor.
Let's say you have a watch you love, but it doesn't work. You take it to a watch repair shop and say, "My watch doesn't work, but I'd like it to. I need you to fix it for me." And the repairer says, "Okay, I can do that. Give me the watch." And you say, "No, I can't, it's my favourite watch. If I give it to you, I won't have it any more!" and the repairer says, "I can't give you what you want -- a working watch -- unless you release it to me to work on."
Does that make more sense?
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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