Invisible Fences – Part 3 of 3

Childhood is intentionally designed to reactivate and give a personal flavor to the limiting emotional states that were imprinted in human psyche during the exile from the Garden. Your particular experience and predispositions combine to create your ego-based identity, your persona. This part of you tells stories, gives opinions, makes judgments, has reactions, and is programmed to reinforce and defend itself in exactly these ways. It is on the one hand part of what defines you uniquely as you, but on the other a highly restrictive, limiting structure, like a piece of very dark, even opaque glass superimposed over a clear window. It is the most external, surface layer of who you are, which conceals all of the more internal layers. Because it’s the most visible, it appears to be the most real.

But there is a truer you. And the purpose of each and every obstacle in your life and all of your reactions to those obstacles is to allow that truer you to shine through.

And at this time, when, as prophesied, the Divine wisdom of Kabbalah has become accessible to the average person, the time has come for just that to happen.

Every Olympic athlete has spent thousands upon thousands of hours testing and expanding his limits; jumping hurdles – or the equivalent – in order to access a latent power that would otherwise never be expressed and to break through the barriers of what is assumed to be possible, over and over again.

Whether or not you are an Olympic athlete, you have the same power to break through barriers in your own life. In the game of life, we face hurdles almost constantly. Often these hurdles seem just too high. Each time you run across a hurdle that seems just too high, you have a choice to make. You can stick with your familiar old story about who you are, back away from the hurdle and resign yourself to a smaller life. Or you can reach beneath and beyond the concealing glass into the unbounded potential of your truer self. There, you already have the untapped power to jump higher and farther than ever before, and in doing so expand the very boundaries of the person you’ve assumed yourself to be.

Any time you do this, you’ve taken a piece of darkness – whether your own limiting stories, the obstacle in your way, your fear, resignation or self-doubt – and used it as the impetus to draw more light, power and aliveness from the essence of who you are. That’s one of the reasons that you’re here.

Next time you hear yourself saying or thinking something like: “I’m just not the type”, “I can’t”, or “I’m afraid”, think of the tiger and the elephant.  Knowing that you’re creating your own cage is the first step in breaking free.

Then, just as an experiment, ask yourself what you would do if you were the type, if you could do it, or if you weren’t afraid. If you ask yourself this question, you may be surprised at how clear and available the answers are.

Then, as a bonus, even though it ‘just isn’t you’, even though you’re scared, try taking action based on these answers and see what happens.

It’s time to turn some darkness into light.

Authentic Kabbalah is not magic, spiritual tricks, or a new age self-help technique. It is Jewish mysticism, the deepest level of the Torah – the Divine communication given to Moses at Mount Sinai.  It is the ultimate mission statement and owner’s manual for the human being. Learned and applied properly, authentic Kabbalah will help you to reach your highest potential as a human being created in the image of G-d,  and give  you access to a life of  joy, purpose, power and passionate aliveness.

*Since the Torah forbids the erasing of G-d’s name, it’s customary to avoid writing it out in full.

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Invisible Fences – Part 2 of 3

Just like our zoological friends, the ties that bind us are almost always thicker, stronger and more real as they exist inside our heads than they are in the actual physical world.  The way we react to our beliefs about ourselves, life, other people, and what we can and can’t do is no different than the tiger’s reaction to his months in the cage or the elephant’s to his rope.

We don’t start out life with fixed ideas about who we are and what we can and can’t do, but we begin to develop them pretty quickly, and continue to reinforce them as we go along. If you decide as a small child that your ideas are not important, chances are that throughout life you will continue to act on that belief, avoiding sharing your ideas with others and thus having little influence on the people around you. This pattern of behavior, of course, will continue to ensure that very few people will seek out your opinions or advice, continuously providing more evidence for your original belief. This is one definition of a vicious cycle. However, remember that this doesn’t make you unusual. Virtually every human being, no matter how functional his upbringing, has some fixed ideas about who he is – and who he isn’t.

But Kabbalah explains this phenomenon in a deeper way.

Since caught in the act of eating from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden and exiled into a world of hardship, pain, death and the struggle for survival, we human beings have been imbued with feelings of fear, insecurity, shame, guilt, self-consciousness, failure, and the pervasive sense of being exiled from home. A good portion of our lives consists of trying to deny, overcome or compensate for these feelings. At first glance this seems like an enormous problem. It takes a massive amount of time and effort to constantly be fighting to overcome our inner flaws and fears. But in fact, this seminal event, with all of its challenging consequences, is neither a problem nor a mistake and actually has a Divine purpose.

Kabbalah explains that G-d first looked into the Torah (the Bible) and only then created the world. That means before G-d even created the world, He foresaw the entire scenario in the Garden of Eden, including the eating of the forbidden fruit and the exile that would follow. As paradoxical as it seems at first glance, this scenario is actually fundamental to creation itself.

Let me explain.

Part of the intent in Creation is that we should not remain passive recipients of G-d’s largesse. Rather, G-d gave us the greatest gift of all – the potential to become true partners in creation. This is a gift that was not given to even the most holy angels, but was reserved for us, specifically because we are souls in very physical bodies, and trapped within our fixed and limited sense of who we are and what’s possible for us. Only because we are finite and disconnected from the truth do we have the ability to exercise free choice. And only those who are gifted with free choice have the power to create something new; to transform darkness into light.

Stay tuned for Part 3 of 3.

Invisible Fences – Part 1 of 3

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
–Albert Einstein

Who are you? Are you a mother, father, child, friend, spiritual seeker, doctor, lawyer, teacher, business person? A husband or wife?

And what kind of person are you? A good person, a not-so-good person? Smart or stupid, graceful or clumsy? Are you talented, bold, wimpy, fearless, fearful, articulate, shy? Do you enjoy taking risks, or are you afraid to try new things? Do you like to let it all hang out, or are you shut up like a clam? Whatever your answers, you will almost certainly have a fair number of pretty definite beliefs and opinions about yourself. And those beliefs and opinions, whether expressed or not, will limit and define you as certainly as if they were made out of concrete and steel.

Several years ago a magnificent young tiger was imported from India and shipped to a local zoo in the States. A beautiful and expansive habitat was built for him, complete with waterfall, trees, rocks, valleys and caves. While the building was going on, the tiger was housed in a small temporary cage, approximately 30 by 30 feet. It spent its days continuously pacing the cage from one end to the other. This cage was originally intended to house the tiger on a very temporary basis – for only a couple of weeks- but the building took longer than expected and the tiger actually remained in the cage for several months. When the habitat was finally complete, the cage was lowered into it, opened, and removed. The tiger almost immediately resumed pacing – 30 feet forward and 30 feet back. It no longer needed the small cage to limit and confine it; this cage, which once surrounded the tiger, had been transplanted into the tiger’s mind.

A similar mechansim is familiar to the people who train elephants. When the elephant is young and small, it is strongly tethered to something large and heavy; a strong stake or a tree. The elephant pulls and tugs, but cannot free itself, and eventually gives up, confining its movements to the length of the rope. As soon as this happens, the tree can be replaced by a small stake that the now much larger elephant could pull up in an instant. Only it doesn’t. Stake, rope, and confinement have become indelibly associated in the elephant mind.

Does this ring any bells for you?

Do you ever say to yourself: “I can’t, I’m just not that type”? If you answer ‘no’, look harder, because in one arena or another we all do. Some people can’t parachute out of planes. Some of us just can’t keep our houses organized. Some of us can’t stop overeating or overdrinking. Some can’t talk about our feelings. Some can’t get ourselves to work, and others can’t stop working. And we almost always think we know, in any given area, whether we have what it takes, or not.

One of the Signs of Our Times is a Lack of True Leadership

One of the signs of our times is a lack of true leadership. This is not an accident, but a necessary part of the spiritual transformation that our world is going through today.  In the absence of that leadership, each one of us must – and has the power to – tap into our own innate leadership powers.

Kabbalah tells us that we each have a spark of Moshiach (the ultimate redeemer) within us, and that spark needs to be revealed. The promised leader, Moshiach, will come to bring redemption to the world as a result of each individual connecting to and revealing his own inner spark.

So I want to ask you a question:

Who do you really want to be in your journey through life?  Most people are receivers. They may complain about their lives, or they may even appreciate them (a much better thing to do!) But either way, they are still essentially passive. When you live from this perspective, the world is big and you are small. Whatever you get is what you get; you either like it or you don’t, and that’s the end of the story.  The world affects you, but you have no real power to affect the world.

Or, you can choose to become a leader. Leadership means taking action. It means considering yourself not just a recipient, but the “cause of all effects” in your life. True, there is a G-d in the world, and He is the ultimate cause. But being a leader means that you relate to whatever happens to you and around you in the light of your vision of leadership, determined to do whatever is in your power to make that vision real both in your own life and in the world.

Last week I woke up in the middle of the night and turned on the radio. They were interviewing a futurist – a person whom by some methodology or another has found a way to predict coming events and trends.

This futurist has a program that travels all over the internet monitoring what people say in chatrooms and blogs. It categorizes what kind of language people use when they talk about the future, whether it’s ‘hot and angry’, or intellectual and peaceful, whether it reflects scarcity or abundance, and so on. The computer puts its findings in 3-D models that can be used to predict trends. The really fascinating part is that the models don’t only predict social and economic trends (which would make sense) but such things as weather, natural disasters, etc.

Assuming it’s true, what does that tell us about our use of language – the stories, the beliefs, the complaints? What does it tell us about how we position ourselves in life, about whether we choose to receive or lead?

In every aspect of your life, I invite you to join me in seeing yourself as “cause of all effects” and act accordingly. From this place it doesn’t really matter so much what you do or don’t have right now. What matters is what you want to create. And, of course, what you are going to do about making that real.

Are you ready to start tapping into your own inner leadership powers? To activate your power to create, to make real things happen, in the places where it matters most? Are you ready to start living a life that’s bigger, brighter, rich with purpose and power?
 
If the answer is yes, the Turning Walls into Doorways Membership Club is for you. It’s designed to help you do that - and much more.
 
In Turning Walls into Doorways you will learn some of the most powerful secrets of the Blueprint for Creation, tap into the transformational light of authentic Kabbalah and Chassidus, and learn practical and powerful tools that will help you shift your very ground of being and affect  every aspect of your real life.
 
You can start the journey today.
 
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Can People Really Change – Creating Something From Nothing – Part 3 of 3

  

YOU CAN CREATE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING TOO

Your life, your present and future, is actually an ayin – nothing.  Yes, as a soul in a specific physical body, there are some limits to what you can create. 

But you have no idea what they are.

- – Do you want to experience unconditional love? How would you behave if you were committed to love others unconditionally, especially those people who long for your love? Your parents. Your children. Your spouse. Your friends.  What if you noticed, accepted and appreciated the way they love you – even if it doesn’t yet look exactly the way you want it to look?

What might happen today if you behaved that way? What if you stayed committed to that experience over time – what might happen to your most intimate relationships, your family, your community, your world?  Don’t shortchange yourself by skipping over this question. Really think about it.

- -  Do you want to experience your power to live as a creator rather than a victim in your life? How would you behave if you refused to let your fears and past failures put any limits on what you do right now?

What would you do that you’ve been putting off? What else? What might you actually create or achieve over time if you do those things? And perhaps even more important, what would life be like for you right now if you choose to be a person who isn’t stopped by fear? 

Do you want to be more intimately in touch with your Creator and your Divine purpose? How would you behave if you were a person committed to seeing G-d’s intimate, infinite and loving presence in all aspects of your life? What if every action you take was based on the assumption that nothing is wrong – because G-d is intentionally, creating your world right now on behalf of your ultimate purpose and fulfillment?

What might your life be like – today – if you behaved that way? How about your relationships? Your energy? Your happiness? Your peace of mind?

HOW TO CREATE MIRACLES

Like a farmer who tills his field, plants seeds, waters and tends them, sometimes it can take time to see the results of your efforts. But if you are willing to create something from nothing, you don’t have to twiddle your thumbs while you wait for things to grow. The very decision to be a creator in your own life brings with it some powerful, intrinsic rewards; rewards like joy, fulfillment – and miracles.

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Can People Really Change – Creating Something From Nothing – Part 2 of 3

  

WHAT’S NOTHINGNESS?

G-d creates from Nothing because Nothingness, ayin, actually means absolute, infinite possibility. No limitations. No restrictions. None at all.

When you don’t need to be any particular something, you’re free to be anything. Kabbalah calls this infinite potential nothingness – not because there’s nothing there, but because there are absolutely no limitations that define or restrict this infinite possibility in any way.

YOU’RE ALREADY CREATING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

As a human beings created in the image of G-d, you are also empowered to create something from nothing. And you do, all the time.

Unfortunately, most of the time what we create from nothing are the stories about what we can’t do, aren’t capable of, will never have – together with all the reasons why.

These stories are continuously being recreated from nothing in each of our lives. But unlike G-d, who creates consciously, we create this reality unconsciously. It’s a sort of default programming.  Yes, I understand that you have reasons for what you believe, but those reasons, while they may help to explain your past, do not have the power to limit your future. Unless you think they do, and act accordingly.

Most of us don’t wake up in the morning in awe of our own potential, in touch with our Divine purpose, filled with the joy of life, ready to create. More often we wake up all-too-conscious of our limitations, our disappointments, our frustrations, our unfulfilled needs, and the burdensome problems we need to solve. No wonder so many of us are worn out before we even get out of bed.

HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON

You might have read a cute little children’s book called “Harold and the Purple Crayon”. In this book, Harold, a baby, draws things with his purple crayon on his bedroom walls. He draws things like castles, mountains, roads and tigers. The interesting part is that then Harold climbs the mountains, runs down the roads, explores the castles and runs away from the tigers. Sometimes he gets so far into the picture that he can’t figure out how to get home again – but then, he just takes his purple crayon and draws the road back.

Harold is always creating something from nothing.

Stay tuned for Part 3 where we will discuss how You Can Create Something From Nothing Too! We’ll also talk about How To Create Miracles! 

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Can People Really Change? – Creating Something From Nothing – Part 1 of 3

MOST PEOPLE NEVER REALLY CHANGE

Sad, but true.

Some people never even try.

But those of us who do – and I assume that you are in that group – often experience great frustration and disappointment as we encounter the same limitations over and over again.

Life can start to seem downright repetitive.

CREATING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

Why is it that in most cases your life keeps looking like some variation of whatever you’ve experienced before?

The answer is: because you are creating something from something. You’re attempting to create a new and different future based on the limitations of your past.

Imagine that you are a potter and you have a piece of clay. You can study your craft and make pots that are smoother, sturdier, or more beautiful than before. But when all is said and done, they’re still just clay pots.

Who says you have to be a potter? And who says you can only make things out of clay?

G-D CREATES SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

There is a fundamental kabbalistic principle of Creation known as ‘yesh m’ayin’ – something from nothing.

This principle explains that G-d is bringing the entire world, including you, into existence from absolute nothingness at every moment.

G-d didn’t create this world once and withdraw back into Heaven, where He supervises from a distance and intervenes when appropriate. Rather, He is actively and intentionally speaking the world into existence from nothing in the present moment, again and again and again. In fact, if G-d would stop creating this world – with all of its myriad details – at any moment, the world and everything in it would disappear as if it had never been.

Based on this, two things are clear:

The world has no existence outside of G-d. Everything we experience in life is part of G-d and His intention and purpose for Creation. 

1. G-d desires the world – and you – with an intense and personal desire. Everything you do has great meaning and significance to Him. That’s why He keeps on creating you.

Remember those old commercials where a little kid said something like: “I must be good because G-d made me, and G-d doesn’t make junk”?

Actually, the truth is much more powerful than that. G-d doesn’t make anything or anyone without a profound purpose. He passionately desires you and just as passionately wants you to desire Him. And He is waiting – with bated breath – for you to embrace the Divine purpose for which you have been created. To make your life, your relationships and your circumstances a “dwelling place” for the Divine.

Stay tuned for Part 2 and 3. In part 2, we’ll review “What’s Nothingness”, and “How You’ve Already Created Something from Nothing.”

Who Do You Really Want to be in Your Journey Through Life?

One of the signs of our times is a lack of true leadership. This is not an accident, but a necessary part of the spiritual transformation that our world is going through today.  In the absence of that leadership, each one of us must – and has the power to – tap into our own innate leadership powers.

Kabbalah tells us that we each have a spark of Moshiach (the ultimate redeemer) within us, and that spark needs to be revealed. The promised leader, Moshiach, will come to bring redemption to the world as a result of each individual connecting to and revealing his own inner spark.

So I want to ask you a question:

Who do you really want to be in your journey through life?  Most people are receivers. They may complain about their lives, or they may even appreciate them (a much better thing to do!) But either way, they are still essentially passive. When you live from this perspective, the world is big and you are small. Whatever you get is what you get; you either like it or you don’t, and that’s the end of the story.  The world affects you, but you have no real power to affect the world.

Or, you can choose to become a leader. Leadership means taking action. It means considering yourself not just a recipient, but the “cause of all effects” in your life. True, there is a G-d in the world, and He is the ultimate cause. But being a leader means that you relate to whatever happens to you and around you in the light of your vision of leadership, determined to do whatever is in your power to make that vision real both in your own life and in the world.

Last week I woke up in the middle of the night and turned on the radio. They were interviewing a futurist – a person whom by some methodology or another has found a way to predict coming events and trends.

This futurist has a program that travels all over the internet monitoring what people say in chatrooms and blogs. It categorizes what kind of language people use when they talk about the future, whether it’s ‘hot and angry’, or intellectual and peaceful, whether it reflects scarcity or abundance, and so on. The computer puts its findings in 3-D models that can be used to predict trends. The really fascinating part is that the models don’t only predict social and economic trends (which would make sense) but such things as weather, natural disasters, etc.

Assuming it’s true, what does that tell us about our use of language – the stories, the beliefs, the complaints? What does it tell us about how we position ourselves in life, about whether we choose to receive or lead?

In every aspect of your life, I invite you to join me in seeing yourself as “cause of all effects” and act accordingly. From this place it doesn’t really matter so much what you do or don’t have right now. What matters is what you want to create. And, of course, what you are going to do about making that real.

The Birth of The Ego: Where It All Began

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“And G-d commanded the man, saying: ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat of it; for on the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’”GenesisI

In the last post we talked about the Human Condition – the sense of helplessness and imperfection that we all feel as human beings. This sense is part of our limited ego-based identity, not the essence of who we are.Our ego is our biggest trap – and also our biggest gift. It is fundamental to our purpose here on earth. That’s why the ego was born in the very beginning of the human story, n the Garden of Eden, on the first day of Creation.

“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they felt no shame.” Genesis“And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat… And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked” Genesis

Adam and Eve were created conscious. They were fully aware of their purpose, their awesome potential and the intimate presence of their Creator. But the moment they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve fell from the brightness of consciousness to the darkness of self-consciousness. They realized that they were naked – shamefully naked – in a physical sense. But more than that, they were emotionally and spiritually naked as well. From the serene wholeness of a perfect world, they plunged into the fearful reality of a world where something was terribly wrong.

At the dawn of human history mankind was created living life from the inside out, attuned to Divine Truth, free of judgment, guilt, shame and fear. Adam and Eve were create egoless. But from the instant they bit into the forbidden fruit of the Eitz HaDaat, the Tree of Knowledge, ego and self-consciousness became an intrinsic, inevitable part of the human condition. They fell from awareness, clarity and power to confusion, disempowerment and shame. No wonder they wanted to hide.

Turning Darkness into Light

But this entire scenario– the original state of light, the sin, the fall into darkness, and the personal, painful experience of self-consciousness and exile – is an integral part of the Divine template for Creation. The whole point of all of is that, through our own efforts, we find our way back to the Garden once again. But unlike at the beginning of Creation, when our ancestors experienced G-d’s presence from the outside in, we are meant to experience it from the inside out. By falling into darkness and finding our way out, step by step, we transform that darkness into light, becoming actual partners with G-d in the perfection of our world.

At the beginning of Creation, Adam and Eve were in a very high spiritual state. But it was all due to the kindness, the largesse, of the Creator. They themselves were mere recipients – they contributed, essentially, nothing of their own.

 

In addition, before the sin, although everything was filled with light, there remained one piece of lurking, unrectified darkness – an Achilles heel to all of Creation. The Garden was created with a snake, the personification of all evil.

 

The sin of eating from the Eitz HaDaat precipitated a terrifying fall. The darkness that once lurked only in unactualized potential was made real. It was internalized, and spread throughout the world. But together with that darkness, mankind internalized the potential for transformation. And that potential was the purpose of the darkness all long.

 

In embracing our power to transform we accomplish three things. First, we reveal that there is an inner Divine purpose behind every challenge and concealment, and in doing so, reveal the G-dliness within it. Second, we start to connect with our sense of purpose, even in our everyday lives. We no longer see the obstacle as part of ourselves; we see it as part of our mission. Instead of the shame and helplessness we often feel as we attempt to fix or conceal our flaws, we feel a profound sense of purpose, fulfillment and pride. And third, just as weights bring out the latent power of the body-builder, our obstacles begin to bring out latent power and light from the essence of who we are. 

How to Make it Real

Start by thinking of something right now that really bothers you, something that you feel is in the way of your being who you truly want to be.

 

Next, imagine that instead of being a problem, this situation is just a brilliant training exercise, something designed to make you strong and powerful, to help you achieve real excellence in life, to bring out the best of you.

 

If you believed that, would it change how you think about the situation? What you say to yourself, how you feel? Would it change your way of being, what you do?

 

What would you do differently, and what might happen as a result? What untapped potential would you begin to touch – in yourself, in a relationship? What possibilities might open up that were not there before?

These questions are not random. They are designed to actually help you begin to tap in to your own latent power. So please give yourself the gift of thinking about the answers – and better yet, post them here.

The Cosmic Game – the Blueprint

 

The Cosmic Game

Kabbalah is the spiritual Blueprint for Creation. That means that everything that happens, whether in the world at large or your own very personal life, comes directly from that Blueprint. So if you want to understand your life, your potential, and your world, there is no question – you must first understand what the Blueprint says about you.

We Are All Players in a Cosmic Game

There are no limits to what G-d can do. Since He is Infinite, expressing that Inifinity in an infinite way is no challenge at all. But to express that same Infinity in finite ways – in a world full of darkness, separateness, conflict and concealment – that’s a challenge; a game worth playing.

We – in our small vunerable bodies, in our temporal lifespans, bound by our limited ego-based perspective and the struggle to survive – each one of us is the finite expression of G-d. Like it or not, we are the players in the Game.

Understanding The Rules of the Game

Everybody starts the Game with a set of cards. The qualities and tendencies you’re born with, the family you’re born into, and all that happens to you as you go through life – these are the cards that are uniquely yours.

But even though we are unique, most of what we experience in life is common among us all. All human beings can reason, understand and learn. We all innately want to grow, to love, to achieve. We all sense that there is more to life than we can see, and most of us long to know what lies beyond. Most important of all, we all are gifted with the power to choose. That, more than anything else, is what makes us players in the Game.

At the same time, however, all human beings feel deeply vulnerable and basically flawed. If you thought it was just you, think again, because every one of us walks around with that deep sense of vulnerability and the nagging inner feeling that something is wrong. Although we try very hard not to show it – in fact, may even structure our lives around trying to hide it or make it go away – deep inside we all feel less than in some way.

RULE #1: Stop Taking Yourself So Personally

It’s important to realize that there’s nothing personal about any of this. That deep sense of vulnerability, the inner feeling of helplessness, smallness and shame, is all part of the Game. It’s the Human Condition, something we all share. And simply knowing that – realizing that there’s really nothing wrong with you – is fundamentally important to your sense of power and peace of mind. In addition, instead of trying so hard to fix yourself, you can spend more of your time and energy on what life is really about.

As inevitable as the Human Condition is, it’s not your permanent address. it’s only a place to start, not where you’re meant to stay. You must get more comfortable with your humanness, but not complacent. Turning our darkness into light, our walls into doorways, is why we’re all here. It’s why G-d created this world in the first place.

That means that the limitations you were born with, the ones you struggle against, are not actually in the way of your purpose. They ARE your purpose. You can begin to fulfill that purpose by coming out of hiding. Embrace your challenges, accept them, understand that they are not your flaws, but your mission, your piece of darkness to transform This is the first step on the road to true power and peace of mind, to becoming who you were truly meant to be.

Think About This

So much of our time, energy and potential is caught up in the never-ending drive to fix what’s wrong with us. Like hamsters on a spinning wheel, we keep running – after whatever we think we need in order to feel that life is okay. More youth. More beauty. More money. More success. More love. More, more, always more.

But the Blueprint tells us a different story. According to Blueprint, the very walls you keep bumping up against are the doorways to your fulfillment – and to fulfilling your mission here on earth.

It’s a big change in perspective, and one that may take some time to really sink in. But try thinking about this now, just for fun.

If you knew for certain that your flaws are an intrinsic part of your purpose, that they are what will allow you to access your true potential, power and fulfillment, what would change for you? Would you feel different? Think differently? Act different? What would change in your life?

I want to hear from you!

Much more to come as we explore the secrets of the Blueprint and winning the Cosmic Game.