I believe the darkness and division happening in the world right now doesn’t need to be a setback, but a setup for a collective breakthrough – should we choose. We decide if this “world pain” is the end, or just one side of a slingshot about to release into world peace. I cannot choose for others, but I will choose to do everything I can as my one insignificant but essential self in this whole big thing. I will keep striving to play full out until the body heals or dies. I cannot choose what others parts do, what other people do, but I can always choose healing. I can always choose love.
With ever-evolving intentions, ideas started pouring into me. People showed up giving the exact words I needed to hear to inspire a new part of the work. Even reading words of hatred and division inspired new insights and served a useful purpose. I would start writing, and ideas way too freakin’ smart for my brain would start flowing into and out of me. Separate pieces of this book started coming together to form a collective and unified whole that I could have never imagined or consciously created from the outset.
This book became a living embodiment of the very lessons it was teaching, for at some point it was no longer me writing it – it began to write itself. It began to show me its lessons. It began to show me how to unleash my own greatness. In my attempt to serve others and help them unleash their greatness, I found I was the one perhaps to be served the most.
I started to consider, “Am I the one who asked whether to write this book, or did this book, or something beyond this book, ask me if I would write it? Who asked the question first? Was the first choice I had to ask, or respond, or both, or neither?”
I’d say there are parts of this book that are “divinely inspired,” but I don’t know one way or another. What I do know is that this book is a result of a lot of wise outside sources, some I’ve met and some I’ve never seen, who have shared their lessons with me over the years, and I’ve been able to synthesize these lessons into something new – and add a lot more hashtags. #IDontEvenKnowWhyIEverStartedUsingHashtagsButIFeelLikeItsBecomeAThingForMeSoNowIKindOfHaveToOopsIMeanChooseToKeepOnUsingThemOMGArentISoZany
Why am I sharing this? Your journey may start with only modest intentions and aspirations, but it has to start somewhere. It may start with mostly fear driving you, but later something else matters more. If you stick along for the ride, you’ll be guided along, one green light at a time, step by step into something far greater than you could have originally imagined.
I got this lesson clearly when I went wake surfing for the first time. The key to me finally getting up wasn’t to put my feet flat on the board while in the water waiting for the boat to start. Instead, I had to lay down and surrender on my back, place only the smallest part of my heels on the board, and trust that I would be pulled up into the position I needed to be in if I just held on and trusted in the process.
I realized, I can’t try to start like how I want to finish. I must trust that if I’m willing to choose to first surrender to something beyond myself, I will end up exactly where I need to be if I just keep choosing to hold onto something beyond myself. I must be willing. I must trust. I must have faith.
Are you willing to trust the process? Are you willing to see that it only takes one small step, one seed of good intention, one small act of courage, one almost insignificant desire to do good, to do love, and if you hold on, you may just find something or Someone beyond you pulls you up the rest of the way?
This is what I’ve found.
I intend for all these lessons in this book to serve you for your highest good.
I’ve shared them with you because I don’t need to physically see you in order to see the greatness, the purity, the love within you that I wish to draw out.
So now you have a choice…
Do you choose to let this greatness, your love, You be unleashed?
I honor your truth and your choice.
You are but just one thing to me, and that thing is everything.
I love You. Now. Always.
Derek Doepker
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Reminder
Given will you be
Reception when you’re ready
What you know right now
Right now means this is what’s to know
Do you remember?
You’re in a house of mirrors…
- reflections perceived through a game played by You in All This –
- This is All You playing a game of perceiving reflections –
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