Comments on: raison d’etre

By: kye

kye — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:40:38 +0000

What an amazing thing to experience–the flavor of the process of making an impact. A slow savoring indeed…

By: kye

kye — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:36:51 +0000

John, I enjoyed your parallel play. Enjoying the view while hurtling to certain death–that ups the ante!

By: kye

kye — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:40:38 +0000

What an amazing thing to experience–the flavor of the process of making an impact. A slow savoring indeed…

By: kye

kye — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:36:51 +0000

John, I enjoyed your parallel play. Enjoying the view while hurtling to certain death–that ups the ante!

By: John Duffield

John Duffield — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:01:22 +0000

Good morning Kye from an isolated farmhouse in the midst of Canadian farm country. A vague fog rises here today with ponies across the way, and I hear slivers of daylight calling. Just so you know, I turned 60 last year and have grown younger since. My plan is to grow as young as possible before I “go”. Anyhow, I loved your little story for sure, because it parallels a similar one of my own. If I may, I'd like to share it. Here we go. Imagine falling off a cliff and hurtling to certain death on rocks below. Lucky for you though, you've gotten to a Spiritual place in your life by now I call “freedom from fear”. A place were peace of mind reigns supreme and Joy abounds. Having reached this “zenith of Being Human”, you enjoy the view from your vantage on high and the spectacular Journy down. Unafraid of what lies ahead, the moment you are in lasts forever. End of little story. Chances are most people would consider it a ridiculous fairy tale. But like the man in your story who enjoyed the strawberry, I believe it is attainable. Ciao Kye. John Duffield

By: Karlil

Karlil — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:12:04 +0000

Wonderful post Kye. I've never heard of the story of a man stuck in between the two tigers. I can only imagine how it feels like facing the inevitable.

By: acordaamor

acordaamor — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:55:57 +0000

I feel an interesting kinship with you as I read this, although I'm 32. I've been striving for a long time to “make an impact” in the world, and I think I'm finally seeing that I need to enjoy the process of creating the impact, because otherwise when it finally comes it's going to be underwhelming. I need to eat the strawberry in other words, and do it slowly.

By: kye

kye — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:49:52 +0000

There was a time right after I was divorced when the tiger at the bottom was the fear of being homeless on the street. Funny how being homeless can seem more fearful than death itself.

I'm curious how being homeless was for Neal. A while back a homeless man told me that he slept in the middle of a baseball field, looking up at the stars. The image of sleeping under the stars like that, out in the open and trusting that things will be okay, has resonances with Neal's book title.

By: jai kai - SharingSuccess.tv

jai kai - SharingSuccess.tv — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:18:24 +0000

Thanks Kye, for letting me have a taste of the strawberry. It will be several years before I reach 50 but i feel as though I have experienced a lot already. I just read conversations with god – the last book “At Home with God” – quite amazing, talks about life and death and Neil – the co-creator of the book lived homeless on the streets for a couple of years at the age of 48.

By: Ellen Daly

Ellen Daly — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:28:00 +0000

I love what you say about the vitality of the age you are. I turned 60 a couple of months ago. I have always felt young in my mind, and now I feel young and wise at the same time. It is surreal to have been a child of the 60’s and 70’s, and now be considered an aging baby boomer.

The best thing that has changed in me since becoming 60 is that I had the realization that no amount of pressure or stress is worth ruining a day for. Every day I try to remember that today is all I have, and it helps to stop a moment to feel into what my next step is: to the tiger, forward off the cliff, or plucking the strawberry.

Thanks for a very thought provoking post!