The 2nd More To Life weekend in New York City ended on Sunday night at 11:30 EST.
In the wee hours of Monday morning, Andrew Wertheimer sent this email to several More To Life students who helped make it possible for him to attend the June course.
Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to say thank you one more time for helping me experience such an intense and life changing weekend.
Without you guys caring, contributing your time and money and staying on my butt since last fall I would not have attended. I don't know if I am missing anyone here. If so I apologize. I learned of people asking about me when I got to the hotel that I had no idea remembered me!!
I am told there were anonymous donations made on my behalf so if anyone speaks to those people, as I mentioned to Ralph, please give them a heartfelt thank you from me. I feel blessed.
I am still processing it all. So much happened it is quite surreal.
One thing I know is by the end I felt much lighter and to share that experience with all those amazing people was incredible and moving.
Faces etched in my mind more vividly than people I have known for years. Different yet all so similar - just wanting a connection - to be happy, free, alive, awakened, non-judgmental, giving, loving - not much else matters.
Finding tears rolling down my eyes specifically after the mirror process was liberating. I suppose that was what I was going for.
A feeling of liberation from the prison I built around myself. Because it automatically made me happier and soooooo much more able to give myself and genuinely smile :)!
To connect to people without fear. Knowing how human we all are - knowing/remembering that I am too simply human...
Conjuring up that feeling constantly is the goal and to maintain it and move higher. But I know, all in good time - and I will certainly do my best to be here in the now as I am.
The weekend was amazing and will unfold more as the days pass but just the moments of serenity I felt when the weekend ended are soooooo sacred.
Thank you again and all my love.
Andrew
I just wanted to say thank you one more time for helping me experience such an intense and life changing weekend.
Without you guys caring, contributing your time and money and staying on my butt since last fall I would not have attended. I don't know if I am missing anyone here. If so I apologize. I learned of people asking about me when I got to the hotel that I had no idea remembered me!!
I am told there were anonymous donations made on my behalf so if anyone speaks to those people, as I mentioned to Ralph, please give them a heartfelt thank you from me. I feel blessed.
I am still processing it all. So much happened it is quite surreal.
One thing I know is by the end I felt much lighter and to share that experience with all those amazing people was incredible and moving.
Faces etched in my mind more vividly than people I have known for years. Different yet all so similar - just wanting a connection - to be happy, free, alive, awakened, non-judgmental, giving, loving - not much else matters.
Finding tears rolling down my eyes specifically after the mirror process was liberating. I suppose that was what I was going for.
A feeling of liberation from the prison I built around myself. Because it automatically made me happier and soooooo much more able to give myself and genuinely smile :)!
To connect to people without fear. Knowing how human we all are - knowing/remembering that I am too simply human...
Conjuring up that feeling constantly is the goal and to maintain it and move higher. But I know, all in good time - and I will certainly do my best to be here in the now as I am.
The weekend was amazing and will unfold more as the days pass but just the moments of serenity I felt when the weekend ended are soooooo sacred.
Thank you again and all my love.
Andrew
3 comments:
I am in deep gratitude for Andrew's courage to step through his fears and Mind Talk -- and come to the course-- I am grateful for what he got -- and what he will give to others. And I am humbled by the power of this work... and the part I play in bringing it to the world.
Thank you Brad, and all the others that took the first courageous steps to build the path I now walk with you all.
Cindy LeBow
Thanks Andrew for passing thoughts on to us. Your descriptions brought me home one more time. I will share this at our steering committee call tonight. Mostly I will bask in the glow of one more human that is waking up to what is most important to us all; connection.
I've never been to New York and until now did not believe there was much reason to visit. Now I know there is.
Remembering your smile,
Fernando Escamilla
Thank you, Andrew, for your eloquent post, for taking the time to write it and for giving permission for it to be published. I was evoked by it to recall my own feelings from my training almost 25 years ago. The feelings were similar, though I didn't have the words to express myself like you do.
Thank you, Carolyn, for getting Andrews' permission to publish it for the world to see.
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