Transformation 3/5 : Living your truth

My friend was talking to me about this program he was listening to. Its about masculinity and man on mission. Here is a few points worth highlighting.

“Character is Destiny,”
Sigmund Freud

Who are you? What is your identity? What is your purpose?
Before we explore these important questions, let me share a story with you guys. It is “The Count of Monte Cristo” written by Alexandre Dumas.

The Count of Monte Cristo
It is a classic story about an innocent man (Edmond Dantes) being wrongly imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him.

While he is sent to the infamous Chateau d’If where the most dangerous political prisoners are kept, he meets an Italian priest and intellectual Abbe Faria who bequeaths to Dante’s a large treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. When Faria died, Dantes jumps off the cliff, thrown himself into the sea and swim to freedom.

At the end, he transforms himself into the wealthy count of Monte Cristo and cleverly integrates himself into the French nobility and destroys those who betrayed him.

The symbolism of the Cliff
Imagine you are Dantes standing at the edge of the cliff, what are the emotions that are running through you right now?

What are the questions that you will ask yourself?
Is it worth it?

The real question then becomes whether you can summon enough courage and emotional leverage to allow you to step into the unknown future.
To me, the edge of the cliff can be seen as the end of a particular lifestyle that you are having at the moment and a new door allowing you to access a radically different lifestyle and adventure.

When Edmund Dantes told Priest Faria that, “I don’t believe in God,” Faria responds with the following,
“That is no matter, Edmund, for God believes in YOU.”

In other words, whether or not you are afraid if you will survive, life will keep hammering you with challenges because we all know that you will be right. “ Allow yourself to be thrown off the cliff, and find yourself washed up on the beach; a real man, mature, with a real life.” David

The meaning of life:
It is everything that you decide.
It can be what Roberto Benini said “Life is beautiful” or Ernest Hemingway ‘s quote, “Life is a tragedy.”
It doesn’t matter. It is up to you ultimately.
Personally, I agree totally with David Deida’s notion that Most men’s ultimate reason for doing anything has to do with discovering their deepest truth, enjoying total freedom and love, and giving their fullest gifts.

Discover Your purpose now:
Steve Pavlina offers an excellent way to identify your life purpose/ values.

What’s the point? The answer is being happy and being free.
When you start making everyday of your life a process of being who you really are, living you own truth then you become a purpose-driven person.

You know who you are….

You know what you value……

You know what your personal BOUNDARIES are….

You become a person who is naturally centered and THIS alone will allow you to create and live the type of Life that you want to live.