The Ultimate Payment Plan
What if you were given the choice, right here and now, to start doing what you really want to to do?
If you could finally taste it: the life-water of alignment between action and intention.
It's yours if you want it. What? you say, I've tried for years to find the time, but something always comes up to get in the way. Yes, I know what that's like. There is no end to the distractions and the shiny objects - always creeping in to steal your opportunities.
Creeping in to steal, just like a thief! But the world is full of thieves, and you know it! And because you know this, you keep an eye on your goods, you lock your doors. If you have something especially valuable, you hide it away and make it difficult to find.
Well then, I ask you, what will you do against the thieves of time? You know who they are, for they are always picking your pocket. Rarely do they out-and-out rob you, but they take a little here, a little there, every day. But instead of locking your doors you've invited them in and made friends with them! Yes, they're thieves you admit, but they're fun to be around and you like hanging out with them. And after all, they only steal a little.
A little, you say, only a minute, but even as you say the word you know you deceive yourself. Minutes are only ever passed one at time. But count them all up, only the minutes, one at a time, and witness the hours, the days, the months, and, dare I say it, the years you have given over to these thieves, and because they greeted you with a smile and a friendly hug, you hardly noticed when they picked your pocket.
But later your heart sinks as you stand at a distance from your great desire. It sits there in the shop window, with a price tag far beyond what you can afford. For you know you have not enough in your wallet now the thieves are gone.
But...
What if I told you the shopkeeper is a patient and generous man? He has a payment plan for men and women just like you. He asks for nothing up front except for your commitment. And after that, the regular payments are...
... Only a minute, one at a time!