Dance Lightly With
Life
Today is your day to
dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
soar your spirit,
unfurl your joy.
(Jonathan Lockwood Huie)
Jonathan is author
of self-awareness books, Lover of Life, and has been called, "Philosopher of Happiness" (my favorite word: 'Happiness'). Please
take a few minutes to read how he transformed his quality of
life. Thinking in transformation, I thought in butterflies and this sketch came out of this thought.. (and because we all love to watch the process, I took a few little videos from my ipad, so I apologize for not being as good as from a video recorder camera, but I haven't got one!)
"Before
becoming an author, I had a highly successful career in Silicon Valley's go-go
world of high-technology start-up companies.
As a
freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, I took an
elective in computer programming. Developing an immediate obsession, I took
every software course MIT offered, and launched a 30 year career in computers
and high-tech electronics. My employers were always small start-ups with big
hopes, and they encouraged my tendency to give undivided focus to my job. I was
rewarded with promotions all the way to Vice President of Product Planning, and
with a steady diet of coffee and late nights.
In 1994,
I looked at my second divorce and my five kids who hardly knew me, and asked,
"Is this the meaning of life?" My boss and good friend saw my pain
and invited me to a weekend transformational event. For months, I found excuses
to avoid committing, but finally I reluctantly agreed.
That
first event was really the first time I had ever held a mirror to myself and
asked what was inside Jonathan. Who, or what, was I? What did I believe about
myself and about life? What would bring me lasting happiness? What would be
important to have inscribed on my tombstone? Was I really in charge of my own
life, and if so, what choices would I make?
I was
fortunate that my first introduction to questioning my nature was very
specifically psychological rather than spiritual or metaphysical. At that time,
I would not have been open to any approach other than a mental one. Since age
12, I had been an avowed atheist - or perhaps agnostic, since I didn't spend
much time thinking about the question. Nonetheless, through that weekend, I
found that I wanted insight into myself and my world.
Over the
next several years, my choice of teachers gradually progressed from
psychological to metaphysical to spiritual, as I embarked on the voyage from
techno-geek to seeker-of-wisdom - from non-belief to metaphysical questioner to
a palpable all-encompassing connection with Spirit.
What
brought me to become an author?
While I
came to find my own inner peace late in life and didn't begin my journey toward
an Inspired Life until I was turning 50, my search for revelations of universal
wisdom and inner peace is now a lifelong quest. These days, I experience the
force that binds together all life - past, present, and future - as a reality.
We are composed of it, and simultaneously, we are a part of it.
My
experience of life is SO different than it was 15 years ago! I am very grateful
for the numerous sources of the one universal Wisdom of the Ages that have
aligned to transform the quality of my life.
I am
drawn to share what I have absorbed from these many sources, and from direct
connection with the Infinite, in a way that is highly accessible and can assist
others in transforming their worries and stresses into living an Inspired Life
- joyful acceptance of life's uncertainties and a bold confident outlook on the
future."
"My vision is
"Joyful Living for All through Conscious Choice," and my mission is
sharing that vision with the world" - Jonathan Lockwood Huie-
I hope you enjoyed, and sorry I couldn't finalize the drawing, but my weekend was too short ... I will finish it and post it as soon as possible... Thank you all so much for reading...x
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