Inner Journey with Greg Friedman and guest Brandon Howard

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All right, y'all.

You know, love.

Ain't it grand, though? So what is it? At the end of the day, At the beginning of the day, it's the same thing.

It's an opportunity.

How are you going to dance with what is presented? Are you willing to look in the mirror presented by love, by life, by your partner, by your circumstances? And are you going to be willing to recognize yourself in the mirror? And here's the problem.

At least here has been my problem with it.

Often when I'm in the midst of it, my nose is way too close to the mirror.

I cannot see any perspective.

I cannot recognize myself.

I cannot recognize another because I am so busy as a Leo being fierce and being embattled, being driven.

And what am I driven to do at the end of the day? Am I driven to recognize, to elevate, to grow? Well, certainly sometimes.

Am I driven to win, to get my point across, to be heard, to persevere? Well, absolutely other times.

And I'll tell you, I have had the blessing of being able to see myself from close up and from far away.

And in that, I could recognize my trauma, my drama, my driving force.

And I could recognize myself and the part I play.

And every single...

I'm not talking sometimes.

I'm talking every single time I'm pointing a finger at somebody else.

It's a huge, huge...

Call for me to look in the mirror, for me to see myself, to see the love that I am crying for that's already there, that I am screaming for that's already there.

Because the truth of the matter is, time as we know it is a fallacy.

We have everything that we need right here, right now.

And our job is not to cry for it, but to recognize it.