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There have been times when I’ve felt so bad I’ve
wanted the Earth to swallow me up. Times when, if I’d had one wish,
I would not have wished
for more money or time or power; I’d have wished to disappear in a puff of
smoke.
And there was a time when I very, very nearly killed
myself.
We’re all human, which is to say, we all have the
capacity to experience tremendous pain. I’m talking about emotional pain here,
but the same goes for physical…
I
think it was Primo Levi who said something like:
“A human is an animal that can adapt to any
circumstances”.
I once watched a documentary called “The Boy Whose
Skin Fell Off”. It was about a boy with a rare disease – his skin fell off his
body every few days. His skin kept falling off all the time. His parents had to
bandage him up, and he lived with that pain day in, day out, his whole life. In
the end, he died of skin cancer.
I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much, or been so
moved, as I did and was by that movie. That boy’s courage and
dignity will remain with me, always. You can watch it here. You will be moved
and shaken and inspired.
I wrote recently about feeling like an Ant.
And about feeling like God.
To me, the difference between the two is just all
about where we place our attention (and where we place our attention is the
greatest sign of our intelligence)...
So I want to share with you a great way to shift your
attention from the mundane, painful, ant-like aspects of life, towards God:
