This guest post is by Chris Walker and previews his inspirational new book “The Path Walker” about his journeys with the monks, nuns, sherpa’s and Nepali’s of the Himalayas of Nepal
Experience is an expensive teacher. A hospital, divorce or the loss of self-respect are even more expensive. I know, because that’s how I learned most of what I now know.
I didn’t have bad luck. I was just too driven to hear the warning signals, too obsessed with work and play to see that I was on a roller coaster of my own making. Eventually the wheels fell off and I was given the lucky break to be able to rebuild my shattered reality and get back on the bike.
I’m a free spirited entrepreneur. I love helping people, and I do this now and my full time life. But it wasn’t always this way. I banged into walls, hurt myself, hurt others, made stupid and unnecessary mistakes and then got back to life by learning from every single blunder I made. I mean, that’s the benefit of these almost life shattering calamities we create, we can learn.
The key to it was to stop blaming the world, people, luck, the stars, my karma and whatever else I could find to distance myself from reality In its place, I put nature.
And that’s the story I’d love to share here. How, using nature as a guide I got back on the path, found the beauty of life, soothed my aching heart, ran marathons, climbed hills in the Himalayas and met some extraordinary people. Every step is an opportunity. All I had to do was learn to take those steps in the right direction.
The Path Walker
My first trip to Nepal was in 1986, in the midst of a personal crisis. I went to find my own nirvana, so I climbed to the top of a mountain and stood there waiting for the lights to go on and my life to change.
There I stood, after 3 months of hard work, preparation and training with a realisation that was totally terrible. I had all the mind noise up there that I had down here: And that is the beginning of this story…
That’s the start of my new Book, my 11th on the laws of nature but this time, it’s about my 47 journeys up with the monks, nuns, sherpa’s and Nepali’s of the Himalayas of Nepal.
I’d love your feedback. It goes to the printer within weeks so, here it is, for you to read and enjoy and, if you see fit, make comment.
There are final edits, 50 photos and some serious layout shifts to do, but you’ll sort of see through that. It’s going to be in book shops early 2010 although on sale in Aussie a little earlier.
Chris is offering readers of CrazyJourneys for a limited time the oppertunity to DOWNLOAD a PDF version of this amazing book FREE OF CHARGE please visit www.thepathwalker.com
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