I'm going to take some time to ponder what you have all written. I feel like I'm on the edge of a breakthrough and you guys can see something I can't just yet. Something did pop out though that also popped out when I was reading The Way of the Superior Man:
Originally Posted By: Mach1
Try chiseling down these things, and pinpoint where they fit into who you are at your core....
I don't feel I know who I am at my core. TWOTSM spoke repeatedly of acting and loving from the core. If I don't know who or what my core is, either I can't act from it or if I can, I don't know that I am doing so from my core and risk doing so from both my core and other centres around the body.
I think that you may be overthinking this a bit too...
This isn't going to come to you in this great epiphany, and this bright shining light leading the way.
It is the little things that take time to work through, and if done correctly ?
It is a lifelong process of self-evaluation, and tweaking.
There will be victory, and there will be defeat.
Through victory, you will gain confidence, and empowerment...
Through defeat, you will gain insight into what you don't want, and it will humble you.
It will also motivate you to change the things about yourself that you do not like, or want....
Mistakes are only fatal if you learn nothing from them. Mistakes are the way that we learn a better way through life.
Going through life is what teaches us our lessons.
Just live your life, and define YOURSELF as you go...
Cause nobody gets to define who you are...except you...
