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Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Are you ready for a waltz….with your destiny?

Creating is a funny thing. It doesn’t happen through brute force. When you try to force the creation process, you usually move backwards. Yet, you can’t remain passive either. You must learn to dance with the creation process. Listen to the music and trust in your heart that you will find a way.

Above all else, you must learn to be patient. This will be the most difficult task for many of those on the Impossible Journey because we tend to want immediate gratification. We demand results now -- and may skip steps to get “there” quicker. Fortunately, and I do say fortunately, the dance wasn’t designed that way. If it were, there would be far too many people creating even greater challenges than we currently face in today’s society.

Think of the process involved in building a house. Does one simply take a hammer and some wood and start pounding away? I suppose you could; however, the quality of that creation would not be worth marveling at. There are many steps in this dance, from surveying the land, designing the architecture, and researching the many options of supplies with which to build. And then perhaps, you’re ready to build. (And I’m sure I have still skipped a few major steps.)

The creation process is an elegant dance with no true beginning or end. The beauty and magic of life is in the dance itself -- unbridled and always changing. When we learn to embrace each moment of the dance as if it was our first, we open up to an incredible new world. Only then do we possess the power to create what we want and have a whole lot of fun in the process. Gary Zukav, in his pivotal book about quantum mechanics, “The Dancing Wu Li Masters,” had this to say about the dance: “This is another characteristic of a Master. Whatever he does, he does with the enthusiasm of doing it for the first time. This is the source of his unlimited energy. Every lesson that he teaches (or learns) is a first lesson. Every dance that he dances, he dances for the first time. It is always new, personal and alive.”

Uninhibited, passionate and playful, we dance onward, reveling in each step, each note, and each fluid movement. Our dance partners are faith and intuition; our dance floor is Planet Earth, and the dance itself is our own true creation.

Are you ready to dance?

Happy Journeys!
Scott Jeffrey

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