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Commentary By Wayne Morgan Austin Institute of Real Estate
What is your true purpose?
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ave you ever had a goal, did everything within your power to achieve it, did so and almost immediately thereafter felt let down, deflated or depressed? This may be why: when we drop a stone in the water, a wave is generated at 90 degrees, i.e. perpendicular to the line of the stone dropping. This wave creates another horizontal and outwardly expanding wave, which creates another, and so on. All these effects are precessional effects and precession is the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion. Take the sun and the Earth. The sun and the Earth are both in motion. Despite the 180-degree gravitational pull of the in-motion sun upon the in-motion Earth, precession makes the Earth orbit the sun at right angle, i.e. at 90 degrees to the gravitational pull. What would happen if gravity were the only force in existence here? They would collide. Did you know that all creatures on earth do many of nature’s required tasks inadvertently? Does the bee know it fertilizes the flowers it enters? The flowers compete with
each other with their beauty and bright colors to attract the bee. The bee enters the flower in search of honey. This causes the bee’s legs to become dusted with pollen. The bee’s further entries into other flowers pollinizes and fertilizes those flowers and so on. The bee does not know its true purpose. It just does what it is supposed to do; make honey. Now, let’s go back to humans. Humans, as honey-money seeking bees, just like all the other creatures, also do many of nature’s required tasks only inadvertently. If the bee has a true purpose (pollination) but doesn’t know it (because it is at 90 degrees and therefore invisible), is it possible humans (and all the rest of Earth’s creatures) might have a true purpose as well? Will you ever know what it is? One of my mentors was a man named Bucky Fuller who set out to discover the generalized principles governing the universe. In a very sad series of events, his daughter died in his arms shortly after he broke a promise to her. In despair, he decided to drown himself. As he stood on the shore of Lake Michigan in
www.myRealtyLine.com the knee-deep water contemplating his demise he writes that he heard a loud clap of thunder and a voice that said, “You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. You may assume you are fulfilling your role if you convert your experiences to the highest advantage of others.” It was when he decided to commit his life to humanity. Bucky Fuller spent the next several decades designing and inventing artifacts that would improve the standard of living for everyone, not just to make himself and a few corporations rich. His promise was that if he did what the universe wanted, he would be taken care of. He lived like that until he died more than 50 years later with no visible means of financial support. The amount of money he needed came in when he needed it. Bucky Fuller has more accolades after his name than any other American in history. I was so struck by this man and his courage that I decided to do the same thing (but only for a little while in case it really didn’t work. After all, I had kids to feed.). So in 1989 when I was called upon to go to Australia as a student teacher and teach courses for free, I had to make a decision. I had to decide whether I was going to continue to earn a living or jump off a cliff with no parachute. My wife Lynn and I were very upset and agonized for days and finally made the deci-
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sion together; despite the fact we were two months behind on our mortgage and I was over $1.5 million in debt, we jumped. As Bucky wrote, “You were not put here to earn a living. You do not have to earn the right to be here. You arrived with a gift; something special to offer your fellow human beings.” All I can say now all these years later is that once we stopped focusing on making money and started focusing on adding value to others, our lives improved, the people we needed came into our lives when we needed them, the money comes in when we need it, and that if you do what you are supposed to be doing, the universe will provide. So although we may never get to know our true purpose, we are guided by our tap on the shoulder. When we focus on others, the taps are positive. When we lose track and focus solely on the money, we get the Mack truck. We now make decisions based on what does the most good for the greatest number of people. So the reason you feel let down after achieving a goal is this: if you felt good what might you do? Stop. If you stop there is no precession. This is nature’s way of saying “good job, now go do some more.” Do you know what the reward is for solving a problem? A bigger one. We may never know our true purpose. But we can assume we are fulfilling our role. RL
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