238 Who Do You Think You Are?
It’s a cool little community, and it’s on the way to the Grand Canyon. We
can take adetour.”
As we are driving up to Sedona I suddenly remembered this
church, and I got really excited and I said, “Hey, let me show you
something really cool.” I saw the church, drove into the parking lot and
parked the car. I ran up the ramp, because I was so excited and I was
almost all the way up to the church before the rest of the guys were
barely even out of the car.
The moment I turned around and looked back at the car was like
a “burning bush” experience for me. It was like this energy came over
me and I actually heard a voice. I didn’t know if it was my voice or not,
but it was speaking in the first person and it said, “I am a scout.” It didn’t
say “you” are a scout. It said “I” am a scout. I had this flood of energy
and tears and this moment of clarity.
That’s who I am. I knew what it meant, and that’s what I’ve been
doing ever since. I go out and explore, I have experiences, I have a great
curiosity, and I follow that, and then I find something, I find some kind
of spiritual truth or what I call a life principle. Then I bring it back and I
offer it to people, and the way I offer it to them is I give them an
experience. I might tell them the information, but it’s better if they can
have the experience of discovering it themselves. That’s how I found it.
I went to school and was a good student. I was president of the
honor society, I got into Stanford, got out of school, started six businesses,
made money, did the thing I thought I was supposed to do: got married.
I got my own house, did the American dream kind of thing, and with all
that success I was actually miserable. I was killing myself. I had an ulcer,
I was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, drinking 12 cups of coffee
a day, sleeping two hours a night. I had insomnia, but I was living the
way I was taught to live. That’s what I thought life was, you know, you
go out and make money, build and business and collect things. And at
some point that got so miserable that I just had to find something else. I
got far enough off course that I had to wake up.
Then I took Life Spring training. I had never done any of that
Self-help, Human Potential stuff. I was a businessman who didn’t do
those things. I took it in another city. The guy who enrolled me had been
asking me for nine months. Thank God he was persistent. I just kept
telling him I was too busy and not interested.
Finally, the company sent their president to Eugene Oregon, and
he invited me out to dinner. That flattered me, so I went. I had a nice
time and then they offered me a scholarship to the training. I had no