Day 4: April 15

Friday. I didn’t fare much better sleeping last night than the night before, but I did an hour better so I did feel a little better. This time I work up at 4:00 AM, wide-awake. I began my walk up to the lighthouse again but took a detour down a trail to the abandoned ocre mines ruins and sat by the sea for a while. I was almost slapped in the face by the peacefulness, the sound and sight of the undulating sea trickling against the rocks, with the emerald-green seaweed swaying the blue-green water. Truly beautiful! Incredibly peaceful.

Suddenly I realized, wait a minute, I don’t have to frantically plan for these events; I can just take them as they come, and take it easy. When I get up in front of people, or just before I go on, something will come to me. After all, it’s all inside me already. All of a sudden it felt like a burden had lifted off my shoulders. And, ironically, as I was climbing back up the fairly steep rocks up to the main trail something came to me about how I should conduct my last Extended Professional Training (EPT4) weekend. It came together so easily, with no effort. What a difference an internal shift of consciousness makes. And to think, nothing had changed in the outside world. Let that be a lesson to me and all of us. The good ol’ Three Principles in action once again—in fact, always!