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Car careening down a dark highway, the fuel is fear. The driver
is on his way somewhere, but he is not sure where. He’s lost. A good samaritan gives him directions; encouraged he drives on,
but his destination still eludes him. Another man sells him a map, promising it will lead him to his destination. Consulting the map he is buoyed by hope and he is off again. Still without success he buys another map, and yet another even
more expensive, hand-drawn, beautifully colored map — alas, to no avail. Then he meets someone who says “Throw away all the maps, just
stop and get out of the car”. A novel idea, he muses; throwing away all the maps he stops...
but suddenly remembers, what about my destination? Again he takes off, driving, driving.... Finally, again he stops,
weighed down by despair. Remembering what the man said he looks down at the
door handle and in a flash realizes that he can get out of the car — NOW. He
decides, opens the door and steps out. TESTIMONIAL Decision as the Ultimate Remedy is
senior to all reflections, considerations, and
beliefs. It manifests as action, involvement
and relational living. Decision is un—mediate — not extended
in time. All strategies are an avoidance of
decision. There is no order of value in beliefs
— none! Any strategy one devises to help one
come to decision is a means of avoiding it. This is the ultimate trick of the Ego
— (limited self) — The great trickster! When the little “i” hacks away at the
belief in the little “i” or should I say when the
limited self hacks away at the belief in the limited
self, who is hacking away at the belief in the limited self? Who is reinforcing what? There is no strategy the limited self can employ that will not reinforce it. Once again there is NOTHING the limited self can DO to get rid of itself! PROPOSAL - Decide; get out of the car,
and surrender leadership to love, by doing what you
most love to do — All else is in the hands of the
absolute. Yours with love and gratitude - Richard Redmond Michael Graham In This Issue Avatar Overdrive Archive
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