What would your life be like if you were living in alignment with BOTH your childhood dreams and your deepest, most sacred values?
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- Steven Barnes
- For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.
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2 comments:
Whew. When I was a kid, I think I wanted to be a Power Ranger. That kinda evolved into superhero in general, then Jedi Knight.
Obviously, none of those are real job options, but they did inspire lifelong interests in martial arts, as well as the creative fields that created the characters--genre fiction, comics, etc. And interestingly, getting curious about Eastern martial arts, as well as the Jedi philosophy, has led me down some constructive spiritual paths.
I can't claim to life 'in alignment' with the dreams or the highest values, certainly not all the time, but I think that striving to be a better writer, a more creative thinker, a better martial artist, to meditate and be loving and kind to myself and others (to embrace the Light SIde of the iForce, as it were) is a pretty valid way to fuse a 10 year old's dreams of virtuous power with an adult's actual abilities and responsibilities.
... I still want that lightsaber, though.
I would be Lisbeth Salander, Anuradha Koirala and Wangari Maathai all rolled into one!
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