The Power beyond the 4th Factor
course, we have an option to plan today! That is an opportunity to live in the ‘now.’ But those who live in yesterday and tomorrow only live with sorrow and misery. We have been given an option to be attached to the results and become disappointed or to surrender to the 4th Factor and joyously accept what it unfolds. The choice is ours.
Suppose you celebrate your birthday and have a great party. Then after the guests leave, you start opening dozens of birthday gifts. You start with a gift from your father – it is a beautiful portrait of your family taken twenty years ago, but you cry and scream because you were expecting a Mercedes Benz. The next gift is from your father-in-law. You are sure that it is going to be a gift voucher for you and your wife for an exciting cruise to Antarctica because that is what he has been talking about these past few months. But when you open the envelope, you are disappointed to see that it is a simple, inexpensive cruise to the Greek isles. You are heartbroken. You continue opening all the gifts and instead of celebrating each gift, you criticize and complain as your expectations are not met. What happens at the end of your birthday? Although you get dozens of gifts, you are unhappy. There are many beautiful gifts that you have received, but since you have set your mind on certain expectations and were attached to that, all your birthday gifts couldn’t make you smile in joy. Sad, isn’t it?
There is so much beauty in the world outside and there is