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Wayne Dyer,
Real Magic, Part 2
I cannot explain how or why I have arrived at this place in my life. I
am surprised I am talking about it! It simply feels as if experiencing and
writing about real magic is my purpose or mission at this time in my life.
Regardless of explanations, I find that I am filled with awe and respect
for this unexpected part of my life path.
I am intrigued with Leo Tolstoy, in part because of what I see as
parallels between his life and mine. He was a famous author during his
lifetime and a man who had spent much of his life in hedonistic pursuits,
one who had no spiritual bent in his early writings but witnessed in his
own life a shift that seemed to be happening to, him without his consent.
His writing began to reflect a spiritual quality, and he wrote of the
journey of the soul and the world of real magic. Yet he was uncertain
about why or how this transformation had taken place.
Recently a copy of a handwritten portion of Tolstoy's will, written by
him twenty years before his death, was given to me by a woman who is one
of the world's leading experts on Russian literature. In this will Tolstoy
described how he felt about his life's work, which is precisely how I feel
as I contemplate my own:
Furthermore, and in particular, I ask all people near and far not to
praise me. (I know they will do so because they have done so in my
lifetime in the most unseemly way.) But if they want to study my
writings, let them look carefully at those passages in them in which I
know the power of God spoke through me, and make use of them for their
own lives. There have been times when I felt I was becoming the bearer
of God's will. I have often been so impure, so full of personal
passions, that the light of this truth has been obscured by my own
darkness, but nevertheless this truth has sometimes passed through me,
and these have been the happiest moments of my life. God grant that
these truths should not have been defiled in passing through me, and
that people might feed on them, despite the superficial and impure form
which I have given them.
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