What if the person you were looking for, the one with all the answers, the one who could help you feel better and give you direction was...you? We spend so much of life looking for someone to give us permission to live. To tell us what the right path is or verify that we're on it. Someone to give us permission to be ourselves and take action aligned with our essence. We just want someone to tell us it's all going to be okay. A teacher. A guru. Teachers, guides, mentors, they've all got value, but what about you? That's what we're talking about in today's GLP Jam Session. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to good Life project, where we take you behind the scenes for in depth, candid conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, makers and world shakers.
Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.
So I spent the better part of the first 40 years of my life looking for a guru.
Looking for that person who would just blow me away with her, his prescience and kindness and compassion, vision and guidance.
The one who would give me the answers, who would tell me what to do to get to that place where I finally felt like I had made it.
So many others that I knew had found that one, and their lives seemed just so much better, more directed and purposeful.
But that never really happened to me.
And I would attend lectures and teaching seminars, training retreats.
Inevitably, I would end up leaving early because some combination of information, integrity, pace, whatever it was, didn't resonate.
So why can't I find that person?
It finally, really dawned on me.
Eventually the person I was looking for was the one that I would need to become.
Now that's not to say I don't seek out teachers or desire to learn.
Others can certainly offer guidance and insight.
Classical texts, things like the Bhagavad gita, the Bible, the tama, Quran, Tao Te Ching, they lend intelligence and humility and humor to the prophets of discovery.
And I am and will always be an eternal student.
But I'm not driven by the quest to find and place upon a pedestal any single teacher who will make everything okay, who will show me the light or bless my decisions and actions and diminish my uncertainty.
Because in the end, no one else can stand in my shoes.
No one else can live my fears, my dreams, my love, my relationships, my desires.
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