People who remember the time when they started learning to walk are very rare.

As I am like most people, I have no souvenir of that magical period of my life.

This is unfortunate, because it would have greatly helped me to reconnect with my true nature of human being.

A constant feeling of joy flows when we are faithful to our true nature.

I could have felt that incredible Persistence running in me, that allowed me to try to stand up, to fall, to forget the pain, to ignore the discouragement and to try again, and again, and again,… thousands of times, until, finally, one day, I could proudly walk that short distance between a chair and the arms of my mother or father, and fall into their arms as they embraced me with love.

When I learned talking, I guess that my persistence was still strong and sustained by the patient encouragements of the adults around me.

Then came the school, and I still remember receiving a sticker with a funny animal stamped on it each time I learned to write a new letter successfully.

Soon however, the animal stickers were replaced by red lines under my spelling mistakes in dictations.

That beautiful God given attribute named Persistence started to be superseeded then buried by the fear of making mistakes and the desire to achieve good notes, later turning into the fear of being criticized and the desire to please others – especially the « authority », parents and professors, and later on, bosses and state… (Napoleon Hill wrote a fascinating and exciting pamphlet on this in 1938, « Outwitting the Devil », only published in 2011).

Now, for all of us, without exception, Persistence is still there, intact and powerful, simply because Persistence is our true nature. We ARE it!

But for some of us, it is crushed under tons of concrete in the depth of our being.

That, in our daily life, makes us look like a block of granite, compared to which the Cement Buddha seems like a pom-pom girl in heat.

Hopefully, Mark has given us the solution to reconnect with our Persistence on a silver plate. He suggested us four movies telling true stories about Persistance.

Homer had a dream and nothing could prevent him from achieving it.

Personally, I enjoyed looking at « October Sky », the true story of Homer Ickam, a teenager who eventually realized his dream of constructing a rocket with his friends, at a time – end 50’s – where Werner Von Braun was the sole rocket scientist in the US.

If you looked at one of the movies, could you also see all the ingredients of Persistence (a definite major purpose, a constant positive mental attitude, a mastermind alliance, and a plan of action)? Yes?

Then, do you remember that our World Without is a PERFECT mirror of our World Within, ie. what we truly ARE?

If yes, please, ask yourself this : If I can SEE Persistence in the mirror of my World Without (the movie), then doesn’t it mean that I HAVE Persistence already in my World Within, ie. within Me?

If your answer – like mine – is a vibrating YES, then you KNOW that you are capable of achieving anything you can imagine…For example, exploding your block of granite into pieces, recovering the Persistent child that you were, like the heros in these movies.

And you could really do it, because each MKMMA exercice is a stick of dynamite that you can insert in the cracks of the granite, if you choose to do so!

And don’t worry, you won’t be destroyed by the explosion, because we are all a part of the Universal Substance, Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.

And we are whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy!

Feel Good,

Luc.