Julian Kaufmann

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How To Find Comfort While Living In The Chrysalis Of Change

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Emerging Beauty

Life Is Constantly Evolving and Progressing

Sometimes the changes we experience in life are gradual and almost imperceptible. For example, we may not notice our own aging until we compare photographs taken over several years. Through this perspective of contrast, we can easily note the passing of time and the attendant changes in the subtle transformation that typifies the cyclic nature of life.

Other times, life can seem incredibly destructive, resulting in dramatic transformations. Some type of cataclysmic event occurs and afterward our life is fundamentally altered. A loved one dies, we lose a job, we get divorced. These events are discontinuities and are very disruptive.

The third way of life change we experience is somewhere in the middle between the gradual and destructive. During this type of evolution, we recognize that we are in the midst of something but most of our life seems to be the same,  at least outwardly. We notice that something is different and we may have a vague notion that it is the beginning of the end of the world as we know it. Inwardly we have the awareness of forces affecting us and we feel that we are isolated from the life we know. Something is happening to us and it is of singular impact. It can seem lonely and frightening while being ensconced in this cocoon of change.

Freeing Too Soon

Once upon a time, a small child came upon a butterfly in its cocoon. The child had recently learned about the caterpillar’s life transition into a butterfly and felt sorry for the little creature trapped in the silky chamber. The child with the best intentions decided to free the butterfly from its cocoon. Unfortunately, the now free butterfly was not able to fly as it had not had the time necessary to develop its wing thanks in part to the resistance of the very cocoon the small child had removed it from. The child’s intervention did not allow the full transformation of the butterfly to occur.

If you or a loved one is in the change cocoon, love them while leaving them to undergo their transformations. Have compassion for the situation and trust that the divine forces at work will bring about changes that ultimately reveal the highest form – the highest good. Given time and the right environment, eventually, you, now transformed like the beautiful butterfly, will emerge. In your time, you will spread your wings.  While you are in your chamber remember that the world needs this new version of you. And in time we all will be grateful for the metamorphosis.

Present For The Change

It takes courage to undergo and witness life’s transformative changes. Whether it is you or your loved one, we all at some point will spend some time in the change cocoon. In order to facilitate change, we should strive to be fully present for our selves and our loved ones. Being present, being in the here and now fully, is the cornerstone of optimal experience. I have been studying and practicing ways to encourage more presence in my life – body, mind, and spirit. My next book The Power of Presence –  How To Amp-Up Your Life provides a how-to-guide on showing up at your best. If you would like to be part of the Prime Mover Team and get early, free access to the book and related resources before it is released, please sign up here.

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The Paramount Importance of Peace

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The Paramount Building
The Paramount Building

This is law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

– Rufus King

While on a business trip to New York City I looked out my Times Square hotel window and saw the beautiful Paramount Building, pictured above. I have been to NYC many times and until now never was afforded the view of this marvelous building with its iconic clocks. I don’t recall ever really noticing the building before. Yet on this day there she stood, a towering example of art-deco style, now surrounded by taller, sleeker buildings.

The beautiful Paramount building serves as a vivid reminder on the evolving nature of time and how we may derive our perceived value in the universe.

Paramount, the word, can be defined as “above others in rank or authority; superior in power or jurisdiction. And at one time the Paramount building lived up to its name. The building was completed in the 1920’s and was one of the tallest buildings in Times Square and it was said that the Paramount’s clock could be seen from New Jersey. When the building’s construction was completed, the Paramount stood high above other structures and enjoyed un-paralleled vistas and likely received much admiration from those who could enjoy its splendor.

Fast-forward nearly 100-years and you see how things have changed in the Manhattan sky-scape. Today the building is ranked the 370th in terms of building height in New York[i] [ii] Much of the Paramount building is now obscured from view due to the surrounding taller buildings of the Big Apple.

My how the mighty can fall.

This rise and fall is a familiar cycle that we must come to terms with in order to find lasting peace. For the very nature of life is a series of ebbing and flowing, growth and decay, birth and then death. In the Paramount building’s case the 4-sided clocks signaled to the world the continuous, unfolding moments of time. The building stood while the world around it eventually overtook it in terms of superior height and prominence.

People are like buildings in that we may rise above others and enjoy a brief period of paramount prominence. Other times we may remain in the shadows of those taller, newer, or more expensive than we are. And sometimes we may crumble to the ground to give rise to a new construction. Perhaps we provide lessons and inspirations to others. No matter where we are, what materials we are made – we all have the same maker, the supreme Architect and master builder- God.

The Bible says that “ All people are like the grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.” The truth of life is we all will wither and fall. And if we place our attention and derive our value from external things, like judging and comparing our prominence in the world, we join a race that has no end and one in which all eventually loose.

Our true essence is greater than what is manifest in the material world for we are timeless and infinite. While all things come and go – the power and presence of God endures, bringing the paramount promise of everlasting peace.

Enjoy the view!

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[i] http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/paramount-building/9879

[ii] http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/08/1926-art-deco-paramount-building-times.html

 

Nothing's Gonna Change My World

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Windows of the World
Windows of the World

Nearly 2600 years ago a wise man noted that the only thing that is constant in life is change. Heraclitus taught, “The world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change.” 1

Change is the ultimate reality of life and how we deal with this fact influences our lives greatly. For all our existence we have struggled with how to come to terms with the varying nature of life and its impermanence. After all, the world will keep on spinning and tomorrow will bring a new day. What will we do with the moment we have now?

While accepting the ever-changing nature of life is ultimately the key to finding peace, it can be difficult to practice and master. All too often we unknowingly cling to attachments – be it people or things. We suffer as a result when the world inevitably changes, potentially severing our attachments in the process. Fearing loss we may clutch onto people or conversely avoid any deep connections, neither of these allows us to fully experience the connection to life itself.

The Tao Te Ching offers guidance stating to “let all things come and go effortlessly, without desire.” Of course actually doing these things can at times go against our very nature.

Likewise the bible reminds us that while we are in this world we are not of this world. This distinction of separating our true self from the world we experience, if we are able to make it, can allow us to connect with our higher consciousness. We make contact with the infinite source.

When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor E. Frankl

One of my favorite Beatle songs is Across The Universe. Its chorus goes:
Jai Guru Deva, om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Being comfortable with discomfort and change allows us to live more fully. Leaning into the vulnerability and volatility of life, opens us to vast array of wonderful experiences. I am grateful to God for each day and the variety we can experience.

Meanwhile my words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup.

 

“Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2015. http://www.iep.utm.edu/heraclit/