Excerpts from Gay Hendricks's "Five Wishes"
"The bigger the question, he said, the more important it is to answer it right now. This moment is all the time you need. It’s the only one we have."
"Don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.
"Be wary about accepting offers of safety and security at the expense of your own creative freedom. Once you trade your freedom for the illusion of security, you have a hard time ever getting your freedom back.
Follow your heart, and your life will be blessed with unexpected favors."
"And, perhaps most important, we sabotaged our good feeling because we simply didn’t have much practice feeling good for any substantial length of time. The history of humanity, as well as our personal histories, teaches us a lot about adversity and how to deal with it but very little about how to feel good and maintain that feeling."
"As I pondered this question I began to see through the words and concepts about Jesus and Christianity. Words can cause conflict; people can argue for centuries about concepts. But underneath all the words and argument there must be something essential and pure and true. I began to wonder: What is the experience that underlies it all? Maybe the experience is so strong that people can only handle a little bit of it before they withdraw from it into the world of words, concepts, and conflict. Maybe the actual genuine experience is so powerful it makes some people crazy. At the other extreme, people withdraw into boredom because they fear the power of the experience."
