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Today, I want to talk to you about Romeo and Juliet.

Um, love, storytelling, and goal setting.

Um, The topic I really want to develop today is resistance and uh, the idea of obstacle, okay?

So Marcus Aurelius wrote, this is a very famous quote by in meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, which is the obstacle is the way.

In the Bible, many, many times over, we also read, I'm going to paraphrase, okay?

But throughout the Bible, New and Old Testament alike, you will see some form of this expression.

Um, Your enemies will be made. To be your stepstool.

Okay, you will step on your enemy.

The obstacle is the step up towards the new level, towards the new dimension, towards the achievement of the goal.

So it's not you against the object. Not object, but the enemy.

Okay, so the idea of enemy is obstacle, it's not necessarily a person, a human enemy.

It could be, you know, lack of money.

That's your enemy.

In this moment, the lack of money is my enemy, enemy.

Um, and so your, God will make your enemies, your, uh, footstools.

What's a footstool?

A chair or a bench?

It a stool.

It's a step that you step on.

Why do you want a step stool to reach higher?

Okay?

And so the obstacle is the way.

These are telling us pretty much the same story, right?

In storytelling, all the bases of storytelling is going to be very easy.

I'm going to tell you right now.

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The basis of storytelling is, Characters trying to go from point A to point B, and there's an obstacle in the way.

If there is no obstacle, there is no story.

Okay?

A client is trying to go from renting.

Point A, to owning, point B. What is the obstacle in the way?

So we can create a story that would lead you to being a homeowner.

What is the App Store?

It can be a credit score.

It can be time, it can be money.

It can be, uh, you know, a job, it can be family, it can be your parents, it can be a 1000000 things, right?

Um, It can be your own mental state.

The obstacle could be purely mental.

You may have all the tools required.

You may have all the education required.

You may have all the support required, but in your mind, you can't do it.

So if you read in your mind, you can't do it, doesn't mean, it doesn't matter.

They could be throwing you a house, falling one off, you know, on your head.

You would not get it because mentally, there is an obstacle, okay?

So obstacles can come in every form, but there's always an obstacle.

There's always something in your way.

Why is there something in your way?

So you can climb on it, to go to the other side.

This is the premise again of all storytelling. .8 to point B, there's a conflict.

When a character wants something, They have to be met with a conflict.

That's what makes drama.

That's what makes storytelling interesting.

That's why we read books and watch shows and, um, um, movies.

Okay?

The characters are also always met with an obstacle.

How they deal with obstacle becomes the whole, you know, art of storytelling itself, right?

What is the text?

What is the cobweb of stories and words and ideas?

Um, you know, of how the character is going to face and deal with this obstacle.

But it's always the same. Idea.

The obstacle is the way.

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The obstacle, if you go even further, the obstacle is symbolized by the idea of devil.

The devil is resistance.

The devil is the negative energy.

Okay, a lot of people think that it's Satan on one side or the devil, and God on the other, that is incorrect.

That is for people that have never studied theology and spirituality, okay?

That's not what how it is.

It's the angel on one side, representing good, positive.

I don't like the word good because it interfears moral proposition.

So I'm going to call it positive.

The angel is the green light, the angel is there to do positive for positive energy.

The devil represents red, light.

Do you understand what I'm talking about?

Symbology, okay?

This is spirituality.

This is Gary Keller.

He talks about, you know, red light, green light in his own. Books.

This is basic.

So the devil is represented by negative energy, red in color, anything that's stopping us from getting the gold, the obstacle itself, the enemy, the thing that is always keeping us in sin, or drive us into sin, tempt us into sin, the things that are not.

Our purpose, right?

They're gonna be there.

God is everything, is the union of these 2 forces, okay?

There's nobody in the world.

Or anything that is purely good or purely evil.

Everything works together to create everything.

And so God is the conjunction of these 2 energies, positive and negative.

I like to think of it more like this.

Red and green.

You need both.

You need to be able to go, and you need to be able to stop, right?

Just like a car.

Basic.

And so God is everything.

What does that mean?

It means that the obstacle is the way, meaning God gives you a purpose, a calling, okay?

This is a fact.

There's a calling.

There a light motif, there's a train track to your life, to your destiny.

You need to read Carl Young because, you know, he talks about how the unfulfilled dreams of the parents will be manifested in their children.

Whatever my parents did not achieve, it needs to be achieved by me, and whatever I cannot achieve will be achieved by my children.

My goal is to just achieve as much as possible.

So me as my own, you know, human race, but also my own family, my own lineage, to be able to achieve the most amount we can achieve.

Um, and that's just like the cycle of life.

Like our dreams are imprinted in us.

Since before birth is genetic, it is in art, art system, and that's how God communicates to us, okay?

God communicates to us through dreams.

And so we all have a purpose.

We all have a light motif.

We all have a direction we want to take.

We all want to go from point A to point B. And the mark that you are on your way to your point B is the obstacle.

The art of knowing that you are alive is the obstacle.

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How you manage the obstacle, how you see the obstacle, how you, you know, create a relationship with the obstacle?

That is your life.

And so the obstacle truly is the way.

The enemy truly is the stepstool.

Like, it's there to reveal the purpose. Is not there to stop you from the purpose.

It's not there to kill the purpose.

It's not that there to be the enemy of the purpose.

Sometimes people persist, purposes is to be evil.

That's just what it is.

Don't judge it morally.

Do what you believe is in purpose for you.

We should all, you know, ultimately be for everybody's, um, you know, life, uh, happiness, I guess, but it's not always gonna be like that.

In storytelling, if you think about like Romeo and Juliet.

I want to talk about Romeo and Juliet, um, and love in the romantic way.

Romeo was a player, okay?

Romeo, some people don't know this about Romeo, but Romeo was a big player.

And so when you 1st start talking about Juliet to his friends, everybody felt like, 0 yeah, just another belt in your notch, whatever.

It's gonna wear off.

He's like, that with every girl, you know, like, we know how he is.

He's Romeo, right?

Romeo, at Casanova, right?

Uh, a player.

Until he meets Juliet.

And Juliet is different.

Juliet is different for a few reasons, but one, he really falls in love with her innocence.

Romeo is not an innocent boy, even though they're very young.

They're still, you know, late teens, but Romeo is, um, You know, he's not a good boy, and Juliet is.

And so Romeo can only see the world through the eyes of naughtiness and in a certain way evil because that's who he is.

And so when he meets Juliet, he truly believes he meets, he sees an angel, right?

If you see Baz Luhrmann's interpretation, his movie from the 90s with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Romeo and Juliet, Juliet does show up, you know, in that costume scene wearing, you know, the wings of an angel.

So he looks at her and immediately is like, who is this person?

She's so angel like, she's so pure.

She's so innocent.

And so he falls in love with her innocence, but because Romeo is Romeo, obviously, his pattern is to try to seduce her and get her innocence out of her.

But in the end, not in the end, like in the process, he falls in love with her.

Why?

Because she falls in love with him.

She believes him, and she has never met.

Basically, he has never met a woman, a girl, that truly loves him.

And I think that surprised him.

I think that that shattered his idea that there are no witness in women, right?

And what really, um, That's that's how the spark started, right?

But we'll really inflame the flames.

Wasn't so much that she was pretty or angelic or he was like into her, was there was resistance?

The love between Romeo and Juliet became a huge right, a tragedy.

Um, of Greek proportions, um, they ended up both committing suicide.

Why?

Because they really wanted, like, it's, it's either we stay together or there is no life with us, without us, right?

Like we have to stay together.

And so they planned their escape, and they both ended up dying, the consequence of it.

But why were those they so in love because they met resistance?

They were kept literally.

Imagine 2 magnets, okay, that want to be attracted, being pulled towards each um, direction.

You're gonna feel the pulse even stronger.

It's not going to get diluted.

It's gonna get stronger.

And so that's what happens in the story.

That's what happens in storytelling.

And that's what happens across the board in our life.

It's the resistance that we meet, that strengthens the, That strengthens the story, that straightens the emotion, that strains, you know, the actual momentum that you're building.

And so it's not about avoiding the resistance.

It's not about avoiding what feels bad, okay?

I feel like a lot of people spend their lives trying to avoid what they don't like.

You don't have to avoid it.

You just have to face it.

You just have to look at it and be like, this is, if this is part of what I have to feel and do and think and, you know, experience because I'm gonna go towards my goal, whatever that goal is.

Then it is worth it.

It is part of it.

It is not because you're doing it wrong, it is not because um, You're a bad person and you're being punished.

It is not because you've been, you know, traumatized.

It is not because of any of these things. Like resistance is part of life.

And is how you push yourself forward through the resistance.

Not only push yourself forward, but how beautiful can you make that movement?

How beautiful can you make that movement?

How beautiful can you make that movement between you and the resistance?

This is something that I've learned in Tango as well.

It's just like my teacher always used to tell me.

If you want to go forward, If you want to go forward, In dancing, if you want to dance and take a step forward, you need to go backwards.

Your whole energy of your body needs to be pulled backwards.

And that's not how we usually walk, obviously.

It's exaggerated, but the way you push your weight backwards in order to create a forward step or the opposite, the way that you pull yourself forward when you're trying to take a back step.

That's not only what creates grave energy between partners, but that's what makes the movement beautiful.

And so when you're dancing tango, for instance, which is very intense, when you go forward, you're actually going backwards.

And that's what creates the beauty in the movement, is the circular, the S like motion within the bodies.

And that creates because you're spiraling yourself, right?

That creates a spiral like movement between you and your partner.

And that is what you need to do with all the obstacles.

You use the obstacle, you dance with the obstacle, you flow with the obstacle.

You have to create the obstacle is now part of the story, right?

It's part of the cobweb.

Um, and that's it.

That all I wanted to say.

Love is a dance between 2 opposing energies, not the destruction of one or the other.

Love is unity, not separation.

Love is God.

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