Your deepest shame and pain is your most powerful tool for change. A guide in Peru told the speaker that purpose sits right next to the worst thing that ever happened to you. Most people hide their pain instead of facing it and using it to help themselves and others.
The thing that hurt us the most, that gave us the most shame, that scares us the most that somebody else might find out, the thing that was most painful is the most powerful thing you have to help somebody else transform your life, period, full stop. I get it all the time and I discovered that I had to go to Peru. Okay, actually that time I saw you at Giovanni's event, right after that— I went to Peru. I went to Peru and I'm hiking in the mountains and I asked the question, how do I figure out my purpose? And the guy that brought me there, Philip McKernan, okay, says to me, it sits right next to the worst thing that's ever happened to you. And I don't know about you, man. You know what that is and you don't want to talk about it. Dude, you put it in a box, you threw it at the bottom of the ocean. Stuff it. Oh, you, you haven't thought. But when he says that to me, what do you do with it?
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