Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called

Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?

Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke

them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to

marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.

Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

So, you guys have heard me say many things in this very room, this very gathering room, about stuff like enlightenment and the bliss of being and, you know, success and happiness and perfect relationships and all the other things that we all

want. Great, fine. But one of the problems of talking like this is that it can give you the

impression that if you're not getting all those things, you're somehow falling behind or you're

deficient in some way, which

is not true at all. There was a group of rock climbers who climbed this very, very difficult face.

I forget, it was like the north face of the Iger or something. And there were three of them.

And they were climbing together so that some of them could climb ahead and plant metal, what do they call them,

petons?

They put these sort of, they were like railroad spikes.

I should have prepared by knowing what a peton is.

Anyway, they'd hammer their little rock hammers.

They'd hammer these spikes into the mountain and then they would hook a rope on it. And then the

two other guys could come to that place. So what they did is they trained for this long, long climb

at one climbing gym where they had a 10-foot wall that they could use. And sometimes they started

out climbing like on big ledges and then they started using the smaller and smaller ones. Finally,

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