Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: And hope is fear.
BRIAN ADLER: Basically the only difference between hope and
fear is that in hope you think it's going to get better, and in fear
you think it's not. But in both cases you're thinking there's a
problem with the way it is right now.
TRIP: All right. I want to ask you to help me with an obstruction
I've had my whole life.
BRIAN ADLER: Sure.
TRIP: It's right on this topic, and you say that everything comes
and goes, but actually there are some things that don't come and
go in the entire lifetime of an individual. People that I know, in
fact most people that I know, in fact almost everybody that I know
from where I come from, they've enjoyed living in their home for
example. My parents have lived in their home forever, and
everybody in my community has lived in their home forever. I
don't personally know anyone from my community that lost their
home or got kicked out of it, or whatever, they managed to hold
onto their house.
And I bailed out of the corporate world, and was making really
good money and everything, I took a huge pay cut, and spirit put
that in me, put that desire in me. And all I wanted to do was be of
service and to live humbly, and to have this beautiful little
sanctuary of a home. And so I hacked that thing, I mean hacked it,
out of the dirt, and it was a tremendous amount of time, and all
the resources that got made, all the very small resources that were
made making like $20,000 or $30,000 a year, got put in that.
And now I have this really deeply fulfilling nurturing little
sanctuary of a home. And it's really the only thing that I can offer
my kids because I don't have the money to take them on vacations
like their friends go on, and all that. So it's just this one thing.
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