I’ve been listening, over the past week or so, to David Deida’s book “The Way of the Superior Man.”

Read it, and Ravish it.

It was a good book, though pretty far out there, even for me.  I really appreciated his take on the nature of attraction – as being based on a polar division between two things.  His ideas and practices were good too.  If you decide to listen to or read the book, hang in there past the first few chapters.  It gets good.

Your True Purpose

Yes, I know I said “Your Deepest Gift” first in the heading, but so what?!  Your true purpose actually comes first, believe it or not.

Deida says that we each need to discover what our true purpose is.  An easy way to do this is to imagine that we might die within the day, or within the next three days.  “What,” he asks, “would you need to do to feel like you had expressed and lived your true purpose?”

It’s a good question, that’s been stated before in many places and in many ways.

What would make your life complete before you died?  And if you don’t have it now, or haven’t had it yet, or aren’t doing it now – what are you waiting for?  Death?

You reap what you sow

Your Deepest Gift

Now let’s talk about your deepest gift.  I don’t want to spoil the surprise, and if you don’t either, read no further.  It shocked me when it came to me, while listening to the very very end of the audiobook.

Your deepest gift is love – unfettered love.  Unrestricted love.  Love that is not afraid of harm.  That lies below your true purpose.  It fuels your true purpose.  It is the soil from which your true purpose grows.  Expressing love fearlessly is the Final Art.

Maybe this book will help you to do that!