we overstep

This year in May I was on a seminar by Joe Williams. He is a great motivational speaker with a lot of experience in leading meetings, he closely cooperates with Anthony Robbins. There were plenty of people from the entire Ireland - both northern and southern.

Those are the most important notes from the Joe’s talk:

Joe told a funny story about a golden buddha reminding us that we are greater than we look like. The story goes like this:
Long time ago in the wilderness there was a tribe that had a lot of gold, once they decided to make something great of it and they melted it into a buddha sculpture. They were happy and it was a top treasure for the tribe. It happened that a foreign tribe was a real danger for the tribe so they wanted to protect the precious sculpture. It was so heavy that it was unmovable, the best idea was to cover it with mud. The layer of mud around the golden buddha hardened so for the intruders it looked like nothing worth, amateur, stone sculpture. Because of scarcity the secret about true nature of the sculpture was kept for years and never publicly revealed, it was too risky. From generation to generation fewer and fewer people knew about it until the last old man died and the secret with him. The times were safe now but no one even expected that they had an enormous treasure in the middle of their village. People had nothing special to appreciate and were disappointed that their ancestors had build such a primitive sculpture. On one sunny day a young boy went playing football and a ball stroked the sculpture leaving a crack on it. The boy was amazed with the shine coming from within it, he alarmed the villagers and all together crushed the entire hardened layer. From that day the magnificent golden treasure was warming their hearts, they knew that they are rich and always were.
This story tells that we as people are an enormous treasure but we had forgotten our true nature because of the scarcity. Even if it is safe today to get rid of the cover that keeps us unworthy we still haven’t saw our true internal light.

That was a fantastic, inspiring event and Joe Williams showed a lot of charisma, expertise and enthusiasm. Thanks Joe.