These are concepts I learned over 35 years ago from Og Mandino...and Janis Joplin! Love, Kevin
Things for me are better than ever. This is an amazing experience in so many ways. My appeals are in the works, and everything will work out perfectly. Remember, you can get anything and everything in life you want. You CAN have it all. When all is said and done, being joyful and blissful in every moment is really what we desire. We might want thrills and various emotions along the way as well. So whatever situations you are facing and whatever emotions you are feeling, you and only you created them. So embrace them. And if you want something else, focus on what you KNOW. What you know you want, while enjoying the moment. You can have all the wealth and material things you desire by simply focusing on what you desire. True joy, bliss and happiness come from seeing everything is perfect, totally forgiving all, and going beyond forgiveness...realizing that there is nothing to forgive for everything is perfect and you created it all anyway. This is a key point. An example of this... A fellow inmate I did not know, came by my cube and offered a book to another inmate. He did not want it. He said he was too busy to read it. He looked at me and asked if I wanted to read it. Since the Universe was presenting this gift, I accepted. I never heard of the book, "Shantaram", or the author, Gregory David Roberts. After I accepted the book, I read the "about the author" page. Here is what it says:
The author, like the hero of his novel, spent many years as a fugitive. In 1978, after his divorce, losing custody of his daughter, and being convicted of a series of robberies committed to support his heroin habit, he was jailed in an Australian maximum-security prison and sentenced to 19 years. 2 years later, in 1980, he escaped over the prison's front wall, and for the next 10 years eluded authorities, living in New Zealand, Asia, Africa, and Europe...but for the most of that time in Bombay India, where he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler, gunrunner, and street solider for the Bombay mafia. He was finally captured in Germany and served out his sentence there and in Australia, during which time he wrote Shantaram. He is now a full time writer and has established a successful multi-media company. He lives in Bombay.
The author, like the hero of his novel, spent many years as a fugitive. In 1978, after his divorce, losing custody of his daughter, and being convicted of a series of robberies committed to support his heroin habit, he was jailed in an Australian maximum-security prison and sentenced to 19 years. 2 years later, in 1980, he escaped over the prison's front wall, and for the next 10 years eluded authorities, living in New Zealand, Asia, Africa, and Europe...but for the most of that time in Bombay India, where he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler, gunrunner, and street solider for the Bombay mafia. He was finally captured in Germany and served out his sentence there and in Australia, during which time he wrote Shantaram. He is now a full time writer and has established a successful multi-media company. He lives in Bombay.
WOW! Another interesting gift presented to me by the Universe, to encourage me, motivate me, teach me, inspire me, and pass on to others!
Here is the first paragraph of the book.....
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, THAT FREEDOM, is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life......
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, THAT FREEDOM, is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life......
Double WOW! I hope you read the book! Today, right now, I am happy, healthy, at peace and totally blessed far beyond my wildest expectations! I have forgiven everyone, including myself...and gone beyond forgiveness: realizing that there truly is nothing to forgive because everything is perfection anyway and MY world was created by ME. I am totally free! I want YOU to experience ALL YOUR desires, and be healthy, joyful in your heart, and at peace. And I want YOU to experience total FREEDOM.
Go back and read all my posts starting with the first ones last year. They are all filled with nuggets of gold I have been embedding in them! Find the gold nuggets of truth, wisdom, and success secrets. Much Love Kevin Trudea