Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

there is no substitute for being there, at the heart of the action. And to get there, you have to leave “here.”

They have, in the metaphorical dimension, packed up bag and baggage and “moved” to that place in their hearts where their dream resides. Depth of commitment. Are you “there”? Or are you somewhere else?

When we say, “Put your ass where your heart wants to be” in this sense, we mean, “Commit emotionally, psychologically, spiritually to your dream.”

I tried to write my first book when I was twenty-three. I spent two years and got 99.9 percent of the way through. I choked. I couldn’t finish. I wound up blowing up my marriage and what remained of my sane life, rather than cover those last few strides to the finish line. Why? No killer instinct. I couldn’t slay the dragon that was that book. Inst

That’s you and me at the inception of any creative project. The book/screenplay/nonprofit/start-up already exists in the Other World. Your job and mine is to bring it forth in this one.

The ego is your ass. The Self is where your heart wants to be. The Divine Ground is what powers the Self and renders it transcendent. Every chapter in this book leads to one final aspiration. Blow off your ego. Move to your Self. It may help to realize that the inner transformation called for by every great religion from Buddhism to Hinduism to Chr

I believe heaven notices. The universe is not indifferent.

There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.

At some point the practice of our vocation moves from being a challenge that we must will ourselves into accepting and enacting to becoming simply . . . our life.