A passage from a book called “Transforming #1” caught my attention that I can’t help but share it with you. It tells you what heaven is like and what I believe it is so. It says:
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“Heaven is having an entire planet on which to live. Heaven is having billions of companions in the game called life. Heaven is having challenges, which stretch you out so that you can see how big you are. Heaven is being born and having a body to serve you and support you. Heaven is having people around you available to love you whenever you are ready to give up being right. Heaven is living in an age of transformation and having the opportunity to participate in that transformation. Heaven is having a condition of enlightenment in the world through which you can use your life to cut like a knife. Heaven is having people in the world whom you can admire and respect. Heaven is having nothing given to you. Heaven is starting from the starting line in life and building your very own personality and your very own life out of the raw material of your own abilities. Heaven is being alive and having a dream.”
Like a fiddler in the roof, I have a dream. I have a dream that I could create a difference in the lives of other people. I have a dream that transformation will take place in each one of us, and that we will wake up one morning and love not only those we know and near us but love those people we don’t know, not because of a certain reason, but just because that the way life is. I have a dream that starvation will end, and scarcity will be filled. I have a dream that every child can enjoy his childhood instead of running on the streets begging for food or struggling for a living. I have a dream that women are well protected and respected. I have a dream that all love will be pure and sacred, and not just casually given today and will lose its meaning tomorrow. I have a dream that there is no such thing as war and hatred and selfishness and cowardice. I have a dream that people will dare to step out of line, to be brave enough to put into action their transformed ideas, and to make the contribution to life that each person deeply wants to make. I dream all these dreams and I keep on dreaming them more and more everyday.
No doubt, I am no different from you. I know you have dreams too. I know that you ache to make your contribution in life. I know you want to create a difference in the lives of others. I know that when it becomes real for you that you can make a difference… that you can make the contribution of which you always dreamed, you will step out of line, you will operate in a space of no agreement, you will confront and be responsible for the condition of the world. And I know that you know that it starts with you, that once you know yourself and treat yourself out of your own magnificence you can begin to treat others in like manner.
I am certain that every one of us has, at the base of our hearts, the desire to contribute, to make a difference.
I guess things are never too late for us to start a transformed life. Sometimes though, its difficult to travel on our own towards an unexplored road, but if we have other souls walking along beside us, doubtlessly we’ll reach the path destined for each one of us. After all, we live in this world for a reason. And that reason, we have to find out.
I am looking forward to the future of our partnership in this journey called life!
