Motivation Manifesto: Amplify Love (Declaration 7of9)

Hey friends, it's Brandon. And this episode is part of a special 10 part series that I'm doing right here on the podcast exclusively where I'm going to release the major parts of my audiobook of my book, the Motivation Manifesto. Yes, I'm releasing 10 full chapters of the audiobook right here on the podcast. So make sure that you're subscribed to the podcast and you download these episodes. You'll see these episodes designated as Motivation Manifesto and then the chapter name. And here's the deal, these are only going to be posted until June 3rd. So I'm giving you 10 days to go through the entire Motivation Manifesto audiobook of the major declarations of the book. Anyway, I don't, I won't include like the introduction or forward or stuff like that. So just jumping right into the declarations that made the Motivation Manifesto so famous. The book spent 36 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list when it came out a decade ago. Why am I releasing such a huge part of the audiobook right now? Well, literally was a decade ago. So this is the 10 year anniversary and I just wanted to say thank you and celebrate it with. Celebrate all your support. Frankly, you guys have been amazing to me in this last decade and that book kicked off such a magnificent part of my life. And I'll never forget the support you gave me, not only making it a major New York Times bestselling book, but just the love of that book around the world. It led to, you know, an interview with Oprah and doing courses with Oprah Winfrey Network. It led to some coaching, some of the best, best teams in the world. It was an extraordinary experience of my own and many. You know the story that initially the publisher turned down the book. I'd go find another publisher. And that journey alone was a reason to always fight for your art. With no further ado, we'll play this audiobook section of the Motivation Manifesto. If you'd like to get the book, you can still find it on Amazon and I encourage you to go there and get it as well, because nothing like reading that book. But you'll hear me and my voice from 10 years ago reading this book. Please enjoy.

Declaration 7. We shall amplify love Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Tilhard de Chardin There is no beauty in the world more perfect, more awe inspiring, more human and transfixing than unfiltered unashamed love. We are at our finest when we give and live in love. And at our worst, when we hoard it, deny it or choke it out of existence. Love, like nothing else, can make us soar to our highest heights or suffer our deepest lows. In the moments defined by the presence of love, we touch the face of our highest self and of the divine. To stand emotionally open before the world and give of our hearts without fear of hurt, attachment or demand of reciprocity. This is the ultimate act of human courage. This the ultimate experience of personal freedom. Love is our origin and our final destination. Our spirit was animated by the loving energy of a higher power. And as we release our last breath, our spirits will dissipate back into that love. With love's transcendent power, we can be reborn and redirected. When we open to it, life itself can feel newer but more alive, more magical and meaningful. When we ready ourselves for our ultimate destiny, when we release our childish, selfish needs and realign our priorities to those of the heart, we can finally reach those magnificent fields of human empathy, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, generosity and courage. We must stop pretending that there is not enough love in the world to give or receive, as though love can somehow be diminished or squandered by human force. Love is a divine energy, always present, accessible, flowing. If we accept this much, we can go further. We can let go of past hurts, for they have nothing to do with the reality of love itself. And we can stop playing our petty games, slowly pacing the release of our love to the world only when it feels safe. Limiting how much love we give to others because we fear lack is an act of cowardice, not divine strength. And so let us now sense love anew from a different, divine perspective. Let us feel its abundance and let it emanate through us in its full force so that we might soar and serve at levels beyond human imagination. Let us declare we shall amplify love life's animating energy. The desire to love and be loved is one of our most animating energies. All of our desires, all of our meaningful hopes and dreams rest on and return again and again to love. Nothing remarkable in our personal growth can be achieved without opening to love and unleashing its joyful fire into the world. Life's greatest victories are won on the fields of love. Yet we often block this divine energy. Look to our long line of failures in matters of the heart. The hurt and miserable souls torn by sorrow who haven't the courage to love again. The morose masses who have resigned Themselves to the myth that there is nothing left to feel, no new level of love to activate or draw from in their relationships. The broken thugs who take the lives of others because they lack the courage to give or ask for more love. The oblivious leaders who cannot grasp that caring and compassion are the best tools for shaping people's hearts and minds. The sad wanderers who have caged their hearts from others, yet who prostitute themselves to feel connected and accepted in some way, to have a tiny sense of the part they have so fearfully locked away. The passionless marriages and the doubtful lovers, the bitter and broken who feel that love was stripped away and forever stolen from them. The pacing and metering of how we release love as if it were a finite resource that could be used up. Look closer still to how we tune out the better angels of our nature and ignore our loved one's request for us to be more present, caring and empathetic, someone more loving. How do we not become hardened by such gross heartache and neglect? We begin by recasting our conception of love itself. Despite yesterday's tragedy or today's pain, we must sense and amplify love anew. This time with more of us in play, this time with greater force and depth. Surely we are aware that more love is in itself a good thing, that opening ourselves more to love is akin to opening life's secret treasures. That more love makes us more empathetic, connected and influential with others. Love is a practical tool for bettering our lives. If we are loving to those around us, then we create the conditions for a positive environment and deeply fulfilling emotional and social life. Let us make that our aim. The closing of the heart why is love so tragically absent from so many lives? Why is the courage to love openly, faithfully and without measure such a feared premise? It began with hurt. We were born a vessel flowing with authentic and abundant love. Then things changed. We weren't cared for the way we might have been. We didn't get the attention we craved. Someone pointed at us, judged us, ridiculed us, rejected us. Callous words and selfish acts left us sad and scared. We were burned, crushed, embarrassed, shamed or smothered by cruel intentions and warped forms of selfish love. And so we began the long, steady, hard work of closing off our hearts, protecting our soul's light, building a high wall around what we are capable of feeling and giving. Soon we allowed only a few people, those we deemed safe, to appear above this thick, cold, impenetrable wall. And even to those chosen few, we offered only piecemeal glimpses of what we really had to give, measuring out how much we would show them, how much we would allow our hearts to lighten up for them. When and if at all we would give ourselves permission to say life's three most important words. It's how it goes. We measure out the giving and receiving of love, and it makes us suffer. So over time, the wall of protection has become so impervious and so foreboding that it has blocked out the one thing the wall was built to protect. Love. The tragedy of humanity's great walling off of love is that the construction began and was laid haphazardly in fits and starts and terrible spurts of immature good confusion. By the time we hit adolescence, we became driven by a mass hysteria that said protect your heart. And we began to believe, falsely that love itself had enemies. We let the slings and arrows from others hit our heart and we felt that love was somehow diminished or damaged. We were swept into a collective unconsciousness that believes that hurt has something or anything to do with love at all. And for this too many have drowned in needless misery. Hurt has nothing to do with love, and love is unaffiliated with and unaffected by pain. We say, my heart is full of love, but love is not bound in our heart or our relationships. And thus it is not caged and capable of being poked, taunted or trapped. And no amount of love, no matter the pain or hurt, is ever lost. Love is not confined to the human heart and thus cannot be held in or out. It is our lack of this awareness that has made us at first seek to protect love and then to limit its release with such fear. We believe it to be a finite thing that we own and can lose. We think it is scarce, delicate, but we are wrong. And this fallacy is what makes life lose its color. What rips away the joy, connection and sacredness of life.

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True Divinity Love is divine. It is a spiritual energy that is at this very moment flowing through the universe, through us, through our enemies, our family, our co workers and 7 billion plus strangers. There is no limit to it and and it cannot be bottled or protected. It exists everywhere, freely, abundantly, constantly. Let us be transformed by this knowledge. Love was never absent from our life. Love didn't leave us. It didn't go anywhere. It was never less present for us to access or experience. It was and continues to be ever present all, all around us. We simply allowed our awareness of it to diminish. The only question now is how well we will serve our destiny in opening up to love and giving it permission to flow. How good and pure a vessel can we be for others in holding the space for love? How strong an amplifier can we be for love? How maturely will we use its unifying energy to to complete us, lift us and unite us? Our ability to serve this destiny is compromised only by the amount of hurt we have attached to the notion of love. We may have been hurt in our childhood, in our adolescence, in our career, in our relationships. People were nasty. They took advantage of us, they were selfish and broke our trust and hurt our heart. But. But we must remind ourselves that misfortune had nothing whatsoever to do with love. And if the feelings of sadness, pain, hurt, shame, regret or heartbreak have darkened the meaning of love, we must now strip away the darkness with the light of truth. We need not doubt the pain we felt in the past. There was pain. Yet a loving fate depends on our discovering that pain has nothing to do with love and that the time for rekindling past hurts and living from the motive of fear has run out. The pain we felt is no longer relevant or cosmically present. If this can be accepted, our understanding of love can be unbound. As humans capable of vision and choice and will, we must acknowledge that anything of the past is past, that the sour feelings and negativity of yesterday needn't be our choices ever again that the pain in our past is no longer present unless we choose to make it so. It must be our intent now as mature adults that any pain of the past shall have nothing to do with the reality of love. In this moment, love didn't feel those arrows. We did. It is not love's fault or the fault of the poor souls now receiving our love. At half measure that we chose to pull those arrows from our heart and fling them at our conception of love. The Route from Suffering the only way through the pain and hurt is love. The surest route from suffering always begins at the trailhead of love. Let us realize that the walls of protection that we have constructed were needless. They protected nothing but perhaps our own bruised egos since love itself was never capable of being corralled. Even had that been possible, our high barricades may have kept out the villainous, but only at the expense of also keeping out the angels and lovers. All we have done is block love from flowing freely and abundantly in and out of our lives. It is in our self protection that we often block the very thing we desire. Once more it is worth repeating. Our diminished concept of love has nothing to do with the real thing. Love remains divine, ever present all around us, abundant, flowing, accessible. Now as ever, it is incapable of diminishment except in our own mind. There was never a time when love was not there for the giving and taking. And there will never be a moment when love has ever any more potential to heal and nurture than in this moment. So do not fear that one day it will be gone. Love does not ebb in strength over time. It was always and will always be the ever present unifying force shaping the universe and humankind. To open up to love once more, we must act on this knowledge. It was I who diminished love and let go of the notion that others must right their past wrongs. We must stop rekindling or resenting ancient hurts. There can be no discovery of fire or treasure there. We have no injuries to avenge. Now let us bind up the wounds of yesterday and set them in the ocean of love. Let no false mental constructs remain about how our love was diminished or broken. Let us finally recast love not as something we have, but as something that exists independently and abundantly in the world, regardless of our own inadequacies or others. Selfishness. The Breakthrough all breakthroughs in life are merely letting through higher energy. In most cases that of love. When we tear down the walls of worry and hurt, the bright beams of love may once more shine in and and through us. It often only takes a small ray of love from another to burn a permanent hole in the armor of sadness and negativity around our heart. Released from our confines, no longer hunched in pain, we can stand erect with open eyes, free to sense once more the divine loving energy in others, no matter how buried they may be by their own fear or hurt. With this recognition, life lights up once more. The full color spectrum returns to our emotional sky, and from within burns a divine fire to care again, connect again, live again. We can look past the faults of our brothers and sisters and love them. We can have compassion for an impatient spouse. We can find understanding for a struggling co worker. We can love all humanity once more. The hardened cynic will predictably cast aside this talk of love's rebirth and redirection. And as long as he does, he will keep himself forever weak, puny, and incapable of any real power or contribution. For as he casts aside love, he loses the ultimate tool for personal transcendence, social good and influence. Only misery comes to those who criticize the power of love. For they shall be soon cast aside themselves as unwanted and irrelevant, blind and brutish relics of a time gone by in which humanity was trapped in its own fear. With love resonating through our souls, we are capable of energizing and enlivening those around us with startling power. This energy makes us beautiful to all and even to those who are so concerned with themselves that they can barely see what is right in front of them. This energy gives us access to every power that humans have to create connection with one another. Caring, patience, thoughtfulness, kindness, compassion, empathy. It also gives us the charge to lead, activating within us the one virtue needed to unify courage of the heart rising to a higher plane. When and how will we give ourselves permission to fully love others and ourselves immediately and without condition? Does this mean we must trust others instantly? No. To transmit love to another, trust is not required. We can love a criminal or a miscreant. We need not trust them. But as fellow humans and children of God, we can recognize their divinity, even though they are not choosing to sense or express it, even if they are attempting to corrupt the incorruptible. All beings come from love, have love in them, and will return to love, even if they are unaware or cruel in their behavior. Avoidance of this truth only permits indifference and hatred to arise. Surely trust is needed in relationships. Someone must win our commitment to intimate or romantic love. But to deserve a loving energy from us, one needn't Do a thing. Love is not deserved by anyone or reserved for only a few. The Divine Hand gives freely to all. Must we then accept and respect the choices and behaviors of all? No. We can seek to reject, reform, and even punish others for their wrongs. Yet while we do so, we can still intend love for them. For we needn't lessen ourselves or compromise our role as loving beings just because we must deal with bad behavior. We can punish a selfish and callous child without becoming selfish or callous. We can help a prisoner gain basic human rights and find a love within, even if we do not condone his behavior. We can forgive those who trespass against us without giving them our power. What this means is that we can have a divine intent for everyone we meet, whether or not they deserve it, have asked for it, or will reciprocate it. There can be an emanating love that comes from us, regardless of of another's intent or behavior. We can release a magnificent spiritual power through our eyes and gestures toward everyone, while expecting no return whatsoever. We can unleash our love into the world for no other reason than because it is our nature to do so. Love, like any virtue, must be a conscious affair willed forth, chosen from among all the angelic and wretched impulses available at any moment in the human condition. And so, to ascend to greatness and become generous with love, we must be aware of our own weakness and propensity for evil. By never forgetting that we can teeter into darkness. We can remember to look for the light by remembering the dangers of cruelty. We must will ourselves to be compassionate and loving. We are not angels, we are humans. But let us nonetheless try to rise to a higher plane to sense and amplify love. We do not need to love ourselves, though let that be our goal as well. This popular fantasy, that we must first love ourselves before loving others serves no one, for it merely gives us permission to await a good day to love others. Should love be kept from anyone simply because we have insecurities to give love? We must only allow it to flow through us, not attempt to own it or sense some false completeness or personal perfection before exuding it. Love is perfect. We do not need to be. It is selfish and silly to believe we must love every aspect of who we are to appreciate and adore any aspect of someone else. Surely it should be our aim to accept and love ourselves, but we can equally disdain any of our peculiar attitudes or behaviors that steal from our freedom, happiness, and connection with others. If we don't like something about ourselves. We can change it, but we needn't await its repair before we fix that great light of love onto others. We shall not wait for the splendid, mythical bright day when we are perfect and and always bursting with happiness before allowing our own ray of divinity to shine through to others. A divine intent to open oneself to and release love is the highest act of courage and the highest freedom. Few among us will have such divine intent or be so brave on a consistent basis. But ours must be a different destiny from that of the bitter, weak or inattentive. If we wish to be a person of greatness, it will require a stunning release of love into the world. Let us choose to live a life defined by love. Let us meet the eyes of all and send this message through our thoughts. And I wish nothing but joy and love for you. But let us also remember that love on the human realm is more than an intention to send others. If there is no actual demonstration of active caring and regard for or from another, then we cannot give or sense human love, divine love, surely as it is all around. But love for or from another must be sensed through action, not intent. Thinking is not love. Giving is Today, like all days of our lives, we have choices to make about what kinds of persons we'll be and how we'll interact with the world. We can meet others with no intention or care, or we can meet them with disregard and bitterness. Or we can meet them with a profoundly loving intent and fire, a full and vibrant energy that reminds them once more of the spectacular abundance of love and divinity in this world. Which choice we make will determine the quality of our lives, the depth of our relationships, and the hope of our human family.

Okay, it's Brendan, the modern day Brendan here, jumping back in. I hope you enjoyed this chapter of the Motivation Manifesto. If you did, yes, you can still find the book for sale on Amazon. And I would encourage you to if.

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