{"id":3937,"date":"2015-03-09T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2015-03-08T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T05:14:08","slug":"learn-where-to-look-for-the-extraordinary-life-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/03\/learn-where-to-look-for-the-extraordinary-life-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Learn Where to Look for the Extraordinary Life (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can think of no greater encouragement in this life than the self-evident truth that within each of us dwells something Extraordinary. By \u201cExtraordinary\u201d I don\u2019t mean any one condition or sensation born of a particularly exciting experience or even the long-awaited realization of some special achievement. The meaning of Extraordinary I wish to convey goes far beyond all such isolated crowning moments. It points not to these individual gifts of life, but to their immutable and inexhaustible source that is the secret center of each of us: a timeless resource open and available to anyone who would seek this Life that sits behind life as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason we don\u2019t see the entrance to the Extraordinary Life is because we don\u2019t know where to look. Perhaps this idea could be better stated this way: we are always looking in all the wrong places. This unseen limitation in the way we see our lives is built right into the fabric of our present nature! Let\u2019s see if this is true. . . [to be continued]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can think of no greater encouragement in this life than the self-evident truth that within each of us dwells something Extraordinary. By \u201cExtraordinary\u201d I don\u2019t mean any one condition or sensation born of a particularly exciting experience or even the long-awaited realization of some special achievement. 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