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'FROM WITHIN I RISE' (EXCERPTS):

"Although I was having an out-of-body, seemingly, supernatural experience my floating spirit remained approximately close to the physical body/flesh that had encased my energetic being thus far. As I, supported by divine love in defiance of gravity, floated a few feet just above the body which lay below, I was being overwhelmingly loved—by The Great..." [page 12]

"While others spoke of limitations, their collective energy was not strong enough to allow me to accept their limited good intended suggestions. In fact, I recall not feeling good as I heard their limiting discussions, as I perceived them to be. As I focused on clearly visualizing my performance in practice and in the game (intercepting passes, tackling running backs, harassing wide receivers, throwing out base runners, steeling bases, etc.) the universe began..." [page 17]

"Born February 3, 1969, the same period other powerfully destructive human energies, unknown to me, were co-creating, I was blessed with the benefit of being raised by two loving parents who taught and insisted I avoid elements—in the street—that would lead me to a life filled with misery and unwanted experiences. Among many concerns,..." [page 22]

"Pops was the youngest son, and one of nine siblings. After dropping out of school in the eighth grade to help work the fields with Granddaddy in Arizona, Senior later enlisted in the U.S. Army and eventually made his way to Los Angeles, California where he met and later married my beautiful mother and her two children. Moms was from Cleveland, Ohio by way of Gary, Indiana and Memphis, Tennessee. Pops held down a full-time job, initially as a custodian and later retiring as the supervising maintenance engineer, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also..." [page 25]

"All four of the shooters were intent on hitting the back of my car, specifically where the gas tank was located, with bullets and buck-shots, in hopes of causing my car to explode. During the chase down a back road along side the railroad tracks on Exposition boulevard, I focused on my emotional, desperate wanting—to stay alive! As soon as my..." [page 30]

"I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve eaten meals and spent nights at their house back in the day. I knew their extended family, in Texas and in L.A. In addition to my mothers cooking, some of the best food in the world was consumed at their house, on Buckingham Road. Accepting what I knew wasn’t a dumb joke, I yelled at the top of my lungs and cried from way down deep in the pit of my being. I threw my cell phone down, violently, and immediately..." [page 37]

"The caller introduced himself as Mr. Leduff. He explained that the budget director was in need of an assistant for the summer and offered me a temporary position. Although I was excited to be getting a call to continue working, I was a bit surprised, I guess, because I had never expected to be called to work anywhere other than at school sites. I’d heard of the 'Beaudry' building on the hill, but it wasn’t described in..." [page 57]

"'C. Mimszo' and I hadn’t seen or spoken to one another in several months; actually sense my birthday, February 3, 2008 — Superbowl Sunday. For those of you who are NFL (National Football League) fans, Chris Mims, who’s lifeless body my friend D. Mack and I discovered on the morning of October 15, 2008, was the former San Diego Chargers defensive lineman..." [page 65]

"There is absolutely no sense in discovering new things, especially with regard to WHO YOU [TRULY] ARE, and not value yourself enough to consider expanding, as does all that is in alignment with the ultimately unknowable Great Spirit that dwells within you, me and everything we can see and not see with..." [page 72]

"One of the most intimate relationships is the one we have with the [true] self. There cannot be intimacy with the [false] 'egoic' self because it is not ‘real’; it is an illusion. We take either of these identities (one true, one false) into every aspect of our being, including into intimacy with another. Most of us, unfortunately, bring the (negative) false, artificial, self into intimacy with another entity. What is a common question most of us..." [page 77]

 

 

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