I WILL GET THROUGH ALL HARDSHIPS- BEST MOTIVATION FOR HARD WORKERS

one of the things that we know about life is that it is always changing sometimes you're up sometimes you're down sometimes things go real well and sometimes they don't sometimes you're happy and sometimes you're sad now that's that thing called life and when we begin to understand and know that accepting that reality that that we will never ever have things just on an even kill all the time but you're going to have some ups and you're going to have some downs but during those down moments that's where the growth takes place anybody can give up anybody can let it overwhelm you but you know what that's doing wasting your pain that pain is not there to stop you

it's there to prepare you to increase you to develop you the challenges of life how do we get stuck i used to be a state legislator in columbus ohio during the break we used to go out on the front lawn of the ohio legislature the capital there and observe people as they came by there was one particular person that all of us knew the children adults everybody used to pick at him when he came by we called him chicken man he had a feather in his hat he had a toy chicken on top of his car that he would drive around the area in downtown blinking his lights and occasionally blowing his horn when he got out of his car he would drive

 he would walk downtown with a baby carriage with two little baby dolls in there and a picture of a woman and when you say something to him or came near him you would hear him making the sounds of a chicken all of us used to laugh at chicken man we didn't know chicken man story chicken man woke up one morning around 3 a.m and his house was on fire he panicked and he got out of the window left quickly only to get outside to hear his children and his wife screaming for help he ran back to the door to go in to save them and the flames were too hot too awesome he tried to get in he couldn't get in he was desperate frantic pretty soon the cries stopped they perished in the fire his brother-in-law came found out that his sister died and his nieces in the fire grabbed chicken man and started beating him you chicken why did you save my sister you're a chicken you're a chicken when the people pulled him off chicken man they picked him up and said are you all right and chicken man look at him and he start making the sounds of the chicken he never ever overcame that tragedy

 he was stuck from that experience none of us knew why chicken man went around with this picture and these little dolls all of us got stories to tell chicken man allowed his tragedy to destroy his life all of us have experienced some tragedy and if we haven't we will and you can either let it destroy your life or you can build upon it [Music] you can permit it to let you let it hold you down or you can decide i'm not going to let that happen to me i'm bigger than this make a declaration to yourself declare all out war that you're going to get out of this rut i don't care how good you are care how talented you are i don't care how much you work on yourself there are some times when things aren't going to go right they just are not going to go right there are times when anything that can happen will happen murphy's law will be knocking at your door why i don't know why that's called life and you have to deal with it don't waste your pain we all go through disappointments setbacks loss pain is a part of life all of us have things we don't understand one reason is we can't see the big picture for our lives

 if you have a puzzle on the front of the box there's the picture you see what it's supposed to look like maybe it's a sunset overlooking the ocean as a whole it's fantastic so beautiful but if you were to take one piece and isolate it you would think look at this funny-looking piece it's a mistake it's not going to fit anywhere it's an odd shape there's nothing beautiful about it but the fact is that piece has a perfect place it's already been fitted planned designed when the other pieces come together it will fit in the reason you can't see it now is because they all are not in place yet in the same way sometimes we look at pieces in our lives that don't make sense joel i went through a divorce i lost a loved one i'm going through cancer my business went down but you have to trust that even in the painful times the times you're hurting you're lonely you're taking the treatment on the surface that peace doesn't make sense that peace that's painful doesn't look like it makes any sense when everything comes together

 it will fit perfectly into place the key is what we do in our times of pain pain will change us heartache loss disappointments they don't leave us the same when i lost my father i didn't come out like i was before i was changed if you go through a divorce a legal battle a friend betrays you eventually that will pass you'll get through it but you will be different now how the pain changes you is up to you you can come out bitter or you can come out better you can come out with a chip on your shoulder blaming or you can come out stronger with a greater confidence you can come out defeated giving up on your dreams or you can come out with a new passion a new fire excited about the new opportunities in front of you all of us experience pain my challenge don't just go through it grow through it that difficulty is an opportunity to get stronger to develop character to gain new confidence hidden in all misfortune is good fortune hidden in the misfortune that you have is good fortune because no storm can last forever even nature cannot create a storm that lasts forever ultimately hidden within every storm is calmness hidden within every flood is drought and dryness hidden within all of the storms of your life is the peace that you desire and it leans on you.

 [Music] life is so enormous that it has no meaning [Music] if there was a meaning the moment you found the meaning it would be over but you can't finish off life like that you write a million books about it still it is ever expanding so there is no meaning to life meaning very rudimentary minds in the world are always trying to explain life off as this or that you can't explain it off because it contains you it is you everything that you discover is just a small aspect of it whatever means you give it to whatever definitions you give it to are just your notions about it life is far beyond meaning life is beyond meaning and that's why it's so beautiful have you ever seen a mustard seed here i have some here i want to pull one out now jesus said if you had the faith of a mustard seed you could move mountains and anything was possible i heard this as a kid and i really believed it and so the question is what do you believe do you believe that you are worthy of happiness do you believe that happiness success abundance comfort fulfillment peace joy love is a part of your birthright is that what you believe or do you believe something else because you will manifest the life that you believe the tao says storms always end fierce winds don't blow all morning a downpour of rain doesn't last all day who does this heaven and earth you're already connected to everything you want or need it will come to you at the exact perfect time as the rivers and the streams come to the ocean at the perfect time and place you gotta trust you gotta know it's going to come to you you don't have to chase after it

 you can become a little less obsessed with your ego and your self-importance and who you are and what you've done and you can get so much more done and you know what it's the most peaceful and sweet delicious way it's like the song that cecilia was singing about the rose self is sometimes defined as ego it's our sense of identity and in our tradition we want to dissolve the false ego which is our misconception of identity and what do you think those are based on like how do people get a false identity but when we do that then our true ego actually awakens and it shines and it gives light in our life and to the world so we are the eternal conscious spirit that's within us the living force and the living force is living in a body and has a mind it's not that the living force is a body and is the mind something like when we drive a car you know the car has such a wonderful use at least potentially and we have to keep the car really good if we want it to to fulfill that purpose but still we're the driver in the car we're seeing through the windshield we're pushing the horn and making sounds so similarly our true self is within this body and the false ego is when we forget that we're all a part of the supreme self we're all inherently filled with the grace and the love of the supreme self and we think

 i'm just this body and i'm just the the ever-changing thoughts of the mind and because of that there's so many divisions it's the cloud of ego that obscures the son of our true nature our true love our true consciousness so in this condition we're thinking i'm a man or i'm a woman or i'm black or white or red or yellow or brown or i'm hindu or muslim or christian or jew or jane or sikh or parsi or agnostic or atheist or i'm a human being or i'm a dog or a cat or a cow or a tree we're identifying with these designations as myself but when we understand what my real self is who i am and what my real potential is then we actually respect that same sacredness of being a part of god in everyone everywhere when man interferes with the dao the sky becomes filthy the earth becomes depleted the equilibrium crumbles creatures become extinct therefore nobility is rooted in humility finally i'd like to say to you in understanding this idea of the dao is to take time yourself for being in nature take an hour a day every day of your life take an hour a day no matter how busy you are no matter what scheduling that you have to get out in nature walk barefoot on the grass walk there it's one of the great ways to overcome an inability to sleep at night just go out when you can't sleep and just walk on the grass walk on the earth and reconnect yourself down go out and be with the tree and look at what you can learn from nature look at these trees look at these animals you can study you look at that look i mean you can study a flower like that that is so magnificent as it's unfolding that's an actual photograph of this thing growing and unfolding there you know be with that you have much to learn from nature from water from the sky from the winds from the trees from the birds from the more you do it the more you see yourself in all of them the more you'll feel yourself as a connected being living the dial you