So here is my masterpiece.
I call it "The Cake Manifesto"
I apologize for my sloppy handwriting. I had so much to say and I couldn't wait till I was back at my computer - it just needed to come out! I initially wasn't planning on showing this to anyone (you'll know why when you see it)... but I think it carries a powerful life lesson.
So in a long and quite messy nutshell, what I wanted you all to know is:
You CAN have your cake and eat it too!
You can have that perfect, fulfilling job, that wonderful relationship, you can travel the world, start a business, have an abundance of cash, sit for your degree at 60, learn to fly, have a healthy body, whatever - you can have it all!
Not just one of them. Not just two of them.
But ALL OF THEM!
This "Either-Or Myth" presupposes that you can either have one or the other. We put ourselves into little boxes and keep chanting the mantra of lack!
I've heard women say that they had to give up a career they loved just so that they could be a good mother. Men who believed that in order to make money they had to work themselves sick. Friends who insist that as they grow older, the must just plain give up on life because everybody knows old people lose their health!
I, myself, have heard before that what I wanted to achieve was nearly impossible at my age - that is was "too late." Well you know the story... I am 81 years old and have accomplished everything I have ever wanted too... and I am not stopping here!
People who buy into the myth will always tell you how you must choose. "It's either, or" they say. The truth is... they say this because they don't like it when you're capable of doing it all, because it reveals their weakness, it shows them what they're NOT DOING, what they're not achieving. They will try to bring you down in order to make themselves feel better.
I want you to examine your lives now. What aspects of your life have held you down, or have you decided to let go of because you bought into the either or myth?
You can transcend and and improve areas of life when you are able to get rid of this myth.
So I hope from this day on, when anyone asks you what is most important to you, you say EVERYTHING! And never let anyone tell you otherwise!
- Burt
My name is Burt Goldman. I’m one of those “lucky people” who discovered a secret early in life. For the last 50 years, I have been traveling the world and meeting and studying spiritual masters from every inch of our planet. Now, at the age of 82, I'm ready to share with the world what I have learned. I started this blog to be able to share with you my most valuable teachings and insights I have gained over the past few decades. Here, you'll find plenty of valuable information on meditation, energy healing, spirituality, and my latest revelation, Quantum Jumping. I look forward to connecting with you and I sincerely hope you enjoy being a part of this blog.
