The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Heart's Desires by Sharma Robin

Author:Sharma, Robin [Sharma, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2003-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

9 GROWTH

ON A BEACH

“The process of life should be the birth of a soul. This is the highest alchemy, and this justifies our presence on earth. This is our calling and our virtue.”

—Henri Frédéric Amiel

The first two weeks with Moe were some of the most amazing days of my life. We’d get up early, have a fresh fruit breakfast together, and then spend the next few hours walking along the beach while he shared his wisdom on opening the heart and feeling love for life. I grew enormously fond of this wonderful man who taught me the ways of the heart and the value of being more playful, spontaneous, and spirited. I admired what he’d done—leaving the material world to chase his heartsong. And I respected the person he’d grown into. Like Father Mike before him, Moe was gentle, kind, and full of love.

“One of the best ways I’ve found to live out of your heart more is to shift from condemnation to compassion,” Moe began telling me one morning as he tanned himself on the beach. “The very act of building some mindfulness around being a more loving person will open up your heart beautifully. Pay more attention to the way you treat other people. Spend more time focusing on their strengths rather than noting their weaknesses. Remember that on your deathbed, you’ll never regret having been the most loving person you knew or having been someone who trusted people and showered them with unconditional love. Actually, at the end of your life, you just might find that that was the best, most fulfilling thing you ever did. By growing more deliberate and intentional in terms of the amount of love and kindness you deliver to other people, you’ll strengthen your heart. It seems like an obvious technique to build up your heart muscles, yet it’s easily overlooked.”

“But isn’t being more mindful living in the head once again?” I asked as I sliced a watermelon on a wooden bench that sat next to Moe’s garden.

“Fair question. Yes and no. Being mindful does happen in the head, but it serves to help you create a bridge to the heart.”

“Okay. Then how can I build some mindfulness around being a more loving person?”

“Well, one of the things that helps me is to meditate on being the loving person I want to be.”

“I’ve been hearing a lot about meditation these days. What’s it all about?” I inquired.

“Meditation is nothing more that using your mind and its imagination to create a better inner life,” Moe answered. “It’s all about envisioning the way you’d like to be in certain circumstances. Meditation is glorified visualization—nothing more than mental concentration with a personal-development twist to it. But by doing it on a regular basis, you’ll actually open up new pathways in your brain and soften up your heart. You’ll also begin to access the love within you. Your goal is to be more loving in the world, right?”

I nodded. “Right.”

“Great. So when you get up in

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