The Big Glow: Inspiring Words to Help You in Opening Your Heart

Metaphysical Mind #76

Hey Friend,

I am honoured to be sharing this latest issue of the Metaphysical Mind Ezine with you. All the metaphysical writings showcased in this ezine were written by Brian Piergrossi and taken straight from his book “The Big Glow”.

I came to know about Brian’s truly inspiring work in a very synchronistic way. I came across his poem titled “Love is the New Religion” and it so deeply resonated with me that I had to post it to my New Earth Blog. But the version of the poem I found online said the the author was unknown. I really wanted to know the author because I found the poem to be so well done, yet because of the content of the poem I thought that I would never find the person who wrote it.

The crazy thing is that Brian came across the poem on my blog and left a comment saying that the author is indeed known and that it was him. I instantly bought his book as I was so excited to know who had written that amazing poem. Now, after reading his book I would like to reprint more of his work for your own personal benefit. If you are as inspired by his work as I am, I highly encourage you to get his book.

This special “Brian Piergrossi” ezine issue will be organized as follows:
1. Wise Words: Selected Quotes from "The Big Glow"
2. Taking a Stand
3. Meaning in Life
4. The Mystic

1. Wise Words: Selected Quotes from "The Big Glow"

If you have to choose the lesser of two evils
Ask for more options -- Brian Piergrossi

Excitement and anxiety are the exact same energy channeled in a different way -- Brian Piergrossi

There is not one person in the word more beautiful than the person reading this right now -- Brian Piergrossi

2. Taking a Stand

Don’t let anyone push you around today.
Don’t do what you’re told unless you also feel it is right.
Don’t except half-truths from anyone.
Don’t accept that someone is more knowledgeable than you unless they prove it to be so.
Do not think that someone is worthy of your admiration just because they have money and fancy material gadgets. In most cases, they are not.

Listen to your heart.
Do what it tells you to do and who cares if it’s possible or not.
You may go hungry for a little while but not forever.
You may lose your job but you probably didn’t like it anyway.
You may be ridiculed but probably only by people who are themselves ridiculous.
You may lose friends but you will gain others.
If someone wants to unload their baggage on you tell them you are not a table.
Stand up! You’ve been sitting down too long.
Take a stand for something and others will follow.

--Brian Piergrossi, from “The Big Glow”.

3. Meaning in Life

Has anyone ever asked you “What is the meaning of life?”
Have you ever asked yourself that question?
What a terrible question!

The meaning of life is to live!
There is no meaning of life
There is meaning IN life
In this very moment

Not to achieve any goal
Not to receive any accolades or praise

When the light turns red, you stop
When the light turns green, you go

A young man once walked 500 miles to see a revered spiritual sage
When he finally arrived, he saw the revered sage sitting in his front yard
He walked up to him and nervously said,
”Sir, I have just walked 500 miles to see you and to ask you this most important question: How do I find Enlightenment?”
The sage looked at him
”Have you eaten breakfast?”
”Yes” The man replied
”Wash your bowl” The sage said
The young man instantly became enlightened.

There once was a poetry contest in the great state of Alaska
All contestants were asked to write a poem about Mt. McKinley
All kind of flowery language was used
A young man entered the contest and recited the following three lines
Mt. McKinley
Mt. McKinley
Ohhhhhhhhh Mt. McKinley

He won first prize and walked out

When someone writes a poem
Don’t ask them to explain it
When someone breaks out in song
Don’t ask them why
When a baby cries
He has no ulterior motives
When it rains
It’s not to make your garden grow

Rumi said, the miracle of Jesus was in the way he lived his life
Not in what he said or did about the future.
He said forget about the future!
He’d worship somebody who could do THAT!

The meaning of life is to live
To be fully engaged
To be fully alive
To fully participate

Get up off the sidelines!
Get on the field and get dirty!

If you’re angry
Be so angry you could kill

If you’re horny
Be so horny you want to hump everything that moves

If you’re sad
Be so sad you could fill a river with your tears

If you’re afraid
Be completely and utterly terrified

If you’re lost
Be utterly, mystically bewildered

If you’re joyful
Be so joyful you could jump over the moon
And swim through the stars

If you’re happy
And you know it
Clap your hands!
Don’t carry anything!
Travel through the day naked
Open and exposed
And damn the consequences!

Drop flowers wherever you go

Die completely to this moment
And be completely born again in the next

Life is not a series of events
It’s not an uphill battle

It’s an explosion
Happening right here and now!
An intergalactic, cosmic orgasm!

Not when you retire
Not after the kids are grown
Not when the pension kicks in
Not next year
Not next month
Not next week
Not tomorrow
Not in a few hours
Not in a few moments
Right now!

Meaning
Purpose
And Inspiration
Here is where it’s at!

--Brian Piergrossi, Source: “The Big Glow”.

4. The Mystic

The spiritual path of the Mystic is the most difficult path to explain
Is it even a path?

The Mystic leaps backward in to the sea of unknowing
They contemplate a life that cannot be put in to words
They come to live a life that cannot be put in to words
And life that cannot be justified or explained
But simply looked upon with awe
Thus to the others, and even to themselves, they become as incomprehensible and wondrous as the night sky

--Brian Piergrossi, Source: “The Big Glow”.

I hope you found these writings to be as valuable as I did,

Jason