A short preview of Philip McKernan‘s 2015 live session at the London Real studio, on how to create a life that feels meaningful and true to who you are.
0:13 Philip McKernan: So consumed by attachment. And what I do is I ask people, I challenge people to consider what they believe on a very fundamental level about religion, about money, about work, about where they live, who they are, who they should be. Because here’s my theory. I think you all know exactly what you want to do. Well, I’m never going to be like my father. I’m never going to be poor. I’m never, I’m never, I’m never. Maybe it’s time to stop running away from, let’s just use the bear analogy, stop running away from the bear. Maybe it’s time to start moving towards the things that I want to do. Because you know the problem with fear is it doesn’t need Red Bull. It doesn’t need caffeine. It doesn’t need water. It doesn’t need air. And when you’re running and spending all of your life running from the very thing that scares the shit out of you, and when you finally have to stop because you’re getting old or you’re getting tired or you need sustenance or you need water, and you stop take a breath and you look around the bastards right behind you. So if you’ve got a fear about something what you’ll find is it’s not a fear about the bungee jumping, it’s not a fear about money, it’s not a fear about success. If you go far enough back you’ll find out that it’s an old fear.
1:34 It’s just showing itself in a different way because I used to set a lot of goals and I used to achieve them and what I often say is I’d achieve a goal or a series of goals and how I kind of describe it is I get to the top of a mountain, I get the top of a peak and I’d get there and and I’d lift myself up and it’s down to the top of that peak and I’d look around and go, wow, was that it? Shit, I thought it was gonna be, I thought it was gonna be happier. I thought it was gonna be a better feeling.
2:03 Anybody experienced that? Well, your vulnerability, which is your truth, is extraordinary magic. Stop making this journey about you. You’re a part of it, but the bigger picture is you’re here to serve other people.
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