Having It All by John Assaraf

Author:John Assaraf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality—not as we expect it to be, but as it is—is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

—Fredrick Buechner

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What I didn’t realize was that if I had swum across the current, I’d have gotten out of it. Or if I had just let it carry me, within about a hundred yards I’d have been out of it. With some luck and a lot of stamina, I finally made it out of the water, exhausted and having learned a profound lesson about the nature of currents and my will to live.

Not fighting feels totally unnatural to a person who isn’t familiar with how currents work, but the universe is fairly relentless. If you simply don’t know a law and break it, you don’t get cut a lot of slack, kind of like making a right-hand turn on a red light in a state where it’s illegal. Just because you’re from out of state and thought it was okay to turn on the red light doesn’t mean a cop won’t pull you over and be completely justified in citing you with a moving violation.

Back to my point: The ocean has a great deal to teach you about the rhythms of life. You must recognize when you’re in a current and when you’re resisting the natural rhythm, whether it’s in your personal or business life. There’s a rhythm that occurs at all times.

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