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Mark David Gerson
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The Way of the Fool
Self-Help
Author Insight
Step #11: Embrace the Magic!
As I wrote the words that I excerpted for this book bubble, I was sitting at a picnic table overlooking the Willamette River in Portland, OR. It was a glorious spring day, not too hot, with a cool breeze whispering at me through the trees. The river was sparkling with reflected sunlight, I was surrounded by the lushness of spring-awakened verdure, and despite the low rumble of city sound, the air was alive with birdsong. I could have filled a whole book with the magic and miracle of that moment, and it was from that place of awareness that The Way of the Fool's Step #10 – Embrace the Magic – was born. That's because I realized that when I open my eyes and mind to the miracles always present in my life and to the magic always present in the world around me, I am able to dissolve the stress and anxiety that too easily infects me. What about you?
Book Excerpt
The Way of the Fool
Miracles are at hand in every moment of every day.
It’s our limited vision that prevents us from seeing them. It’s our limited sense of what is possible that prevents us from believing in them. It’s our fear that prevents us from embracing them.
How do we attract more magic and more miracles into our lives?
By opening our eyes, hearts and minds in awe and gratitude to the abundant miracles already magically present — from the miracles of breath, of laughter, of love, of life, to the magic of a flower, a rainbow, a seascape, a sunrise, to the miracles of serendipity, synchronicity, wonder, connection.
It’s not about “expecting” miracles to show up. Expectation takes us out of the now moment.
Rather, it’s about acknowledging what is already abundantly present in our field of vision, for it is our openness to everyday miracles that seeds the exceptional ones.
And it is the exceptional ones that remind us that on the Way of the Fool, the impossible is always possible.
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