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# 20 – What You’re Looking For You Already Have

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    # 20 – What You’re Looking For You Already Have

    By Anthony | Right here, Right NOW | 0 comment | 16 May, 2011 | 0

    The experiences we are looking for in the world seem to show up out there.

    They might be in the form of getting a girlfriend or booking a job or going on a cruise or getting an agent.

    But what they really represent is the feeling you are looking for (and actually already possess) inside you.

    We think that getting “the thing” is what we need to finally be who we are.

    In actuality, who we naturally are already is – ironically – how we get the things we desire.

    Life is a circle. It’s not a horizontal line leading to somewhere out there in the future. It’s a journey of coming back to you. As adults we’re trying to get back to that core essence of who we were (and still are) as children. The part of us that is nonjudgmental, innocent, fully-expressed, free, emotionally connected, playful, committed, fearless.

    And as children, we don’t wait for “events” to give us permission to express ourselves. We express ourselves fully moment-to-moment in each moment.

    Just because we’ve grown up, or gained twenty pounds or have gray hair or seem to have lost our way, doesn’t mean we’ve lost that eternal part of us that is yearning to be expressed again. We just have to reconnect to it and let it show us how to play.

    Homework: This week, give yourself the permission to express yourself in a way you normally shut down, control, edit or don’t allow. Just do it.

    And remember. Child-like is not childish.

    “Adults are obsolete children.” — Dr. Seuss

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