We are one

I have cried while others laughed.  I have run while others walked, I have sung when I had no voice.

I have breathed life back into what others said was dead,

I have been loved more deeply in one moment than I ever felt possible in a lifetime, and I have flown on wings I do not have.

I have been knocked down but not as often as I am willing  to get up,  I have felt the hatred of those who could not see ‘me’.

I have seen our differences and known that we are the same.

I have had moments or years where I had a pulse, but I was dead,  and I have looked death in the eye and knew it was not my time…

What I have done is no more or less than another…it is my journey.

None of these things that I have done would have been possible without an inner knowing that I am more than my circumstances. Without the Love of touching souls, without the Courage to look into my own darkness,  without the willingness to be Vulnerable in the face of ridicule,  without the Curiosity of a small child.

I am not a hero, I am you!

We are held in a common bond, and it is our quest to reach out and connect to all of those who find themselves on a similar journey…

We believe in things that others deem impossible. We refuse to believe the lies we have been told. We are the seekers of a deeper truth.

For we know that the change is coming,  and we are committed to being the difference that needs to be made…

We Are The 11%!

If you count yourself as one of the 11% click like and show yourself…

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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The Journey into “Deep” is a courageous one…

Few will ever be brave enough to enter, let alone complete the Emotional Healing and Growth that is required to Reclaim the Authentic Self.

“Deep” is a hero’s journey to go back and find what was left behind in a place falsely named ‘history’. It is falsely named because…

History does not only exist in the past. History lives in every cell and every  fiber of our being. It is the calcified tears we dared not cry that stiffen not only our bones but the expression of our lives. History is the constriction of our veins and arteries from laughter that dare not be laughed in a childhood where children must be adults because the adults around them never grew up and faced their own pain.”

Who among us is brave enough to stand as a champion, a guide and a warrior for that lost child?

Who among us is bold enough to say; it wasn’t good enough, the child deserved to be fully alive in all it’s feelings including play?

Who is now willing to go back and get that child, hold it in it’s sadness and give it permission to cry all of it’s tears?

Who is now willing to go back and free that child’s spirit to play in the universe of imaginings? 

Who will now hold up that child’s spirit as a great light to the world that can laugh deeper, wilder and more authentically than was permitted?

I will tell you who…

The “Deeplings” of 2008!

400 individuals participated in the intro modules and only 16 graduated to the freedom of reclaiming their “Deep” Authentic Selves, and I am very proud of each and everyone of you.

Below I’d like to share a poem with you, yes you, who still hear the distant voice of a lost child that is yourself, not in some distant history, but the child who lives in the moments where you fall in love with yourself again and again.

Who will cry for the little boy

by Antwone Fisher

“Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?”

I look forward to your authentic coments about Emotional Healing…

Today I’m excited as I’m getting ready… “Deep” starts tomorrow morning and I know with all certainty that I have no way of knowing who these people will discover they are underneath the mask of their conditioning.  What I do know is I’m excited to stay on purpose and let it all unfold.

Just imagine waking up on some beautiful morning in the very near future…

You awaken excited and energized to meet the day. You stay lying down so that you can just soak in the deep gratitude of being able to do what you do on a daily basis.

As the gratitude wells up in your chest a long slow tear leaks out of your closed right eye. There is no sadness; this is a tear of pure gratitude. Your life is so different because you finally did it, you finally said “yes” to your commitment of not only facing your fear but also to continue to face it as it comes up.

You see over the years you got smart enough to realize that even after you commit to something the fear doesn’t go away. In fact there are times when it intensifies. You think about your first steps into it, and how absolutely terrified you were. Thank goodness there was at least one person you could trust to kick your ass if you wavered, one person who believed in you and what you could do despite what was apparently lacking.

           As you lay there awash in that gratitude you think about how long you waited and immediately there is a part of you that wants to give you a hard time for waiting. Quickly you feel that gratitude and self criticism are mutually exclusive and immediately you reel in your mind, going right back the feeling of gratitude. You begin to think about all the lives you have touched both directly and indirectly, since you got clear about making the decision.

It’s easy to think of all the people you know who never make that decision. Why, you ask. Why, don’t they just get up and do it? You know why: Fear. Fear is the dream killer, and fear wears many masks and one of them is “I will do it once I’m certain what it is that I must do.

But you’ve gotten smarter than that, you know that that’s not how it works. From somewhere deep within you remember the story of the master takes the apprentice to the edge of the cliff and tells the apprentice to jump. The apprentice with terror running through every vain says “No I’ll fall and die”. The master simply replies: “What if you fly”? And gives the student a little push.

Looking for your life’s purpose can be a great way to stay busy enough to never fulfill it!

Sometimes you’ve just got to be willing to go in the direction of. There is any number of ways of finding your purpose, doing what you came here to do etc. It’s important to stay open to the clues, listen to your intuition etcetera. However, a major factor of discovering your purpose is this; be open to everything and attached to nothing.

Many of the most successful and happy people I know are in their 50′s and 60′s and they still don’t know what they want to do when they grow up. This however does not stop them living something that maybe even more important than living your life’s purpose: Living a purposeful life!

In order to be living a purposeful life:

 Start each day knowing that there will be fear and say ‘so what’, there will also be love. Each day could contain tears, ‘so what’, that same day can also contain laughter, so choose to live a life of purpose.

The fact is that living your life on purpose means you wake up each morning with a commitment to feel grateful that you are doing just that; living your life on purpose. We can move forward with clear focus toward what we want to achieve and that could be money, possessions or status, but always remember what you, we all of us are actually want is a “feeling” and you can start by deciding what feeling you want to start each day with and then deciding to create it. Take a deep breath and as you breath out step off the cliff and you’ll discover you can fly. Be willing to be surprised at how often something wonderful and wondrous shows up…

Leave me your comments and feedback about finding your life’s purpose and living purposfully below, I look forward to hearing from you.

With deep gratitude and sincere purpose,

Dov…