Much of man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone. Challenges calls out the warrior in a person, the one who tests, hones, and refines oneself through one’s encounters with difficult or unusual conditions. As uncomfortable as challenge may be for a person, it can also be enlivening and deepening, presenting one with an edge that can bring out the very best in one. Your edge is the experiential zone where you are deepest, most relevant growth happens. It is a domain of both trepidation and excitement, an existential threshold where you have begun to turn toward your fears, your pain, your grief, your shame, and your failings—everything you have kept in your shadow. Such encounters are what bring your edge out into the open.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6

Your edge does not have to be a place where meaning gets unraveled and rewoven, where your World undergoes foundational charges, where unsuspected realizations catalyze new directions for you; it can simply be a place where you say no when everyone around you wants to say yes, or where you allow the armoring around your heart to melt. Whatever your edge may be, it is rich with life-giving risk, calling forth the very best from you. It is a marvelous developmental crucible for your true power, an initiatory testing ground that awaits your full-blooded participation, serving your transition into a deeper manhood.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6

If it is not a significant challenge, it is not your edge. If it does not require courage, it is not your edge. This does not mean that danger has to be present, but there is definite risk involved, whether it be losing popularity or speaking truths that might radically alter our life direction. Being at your edge does not mean doing things that are foolish, it means something like taking a new job or buying a new house that you can afford. It does not have to be big or ground-shaking, or even noticeable to others; all that matters is that you begin taking it with as little delay as possible once you intuit that it is time to do so.  In courage, there is an overall sense of strength and well-being. #RyanPhillippe 3 of  6

The lifestyle on this magnum level shows a condominium of balance of work, enjoyment, and love. There is not the necessity for over-ambition, but people on the level of courage are capable of considerable energy output if the situation requires it. Because of the letting go of so much negativity, there is a desire and a capacity to love and to have loving relationships. These now assume equal importance with efforts toward survival. There is a vocational security, and in the work area there is concern for the welfare of others. People on this level characteristically state that they want jobs which will be of some benefit to the World. They want to feel that there is more meaning to their job than just a salary.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

We enjoy the experience of harmony. We feel as though events are flowing. We feel secure. We can be of service to others without a feeling of self-sacrifice. There is the feeling that I am okay and so is everyone else around me. One feels like they belong, are connected, loved, and understood. Everything is perfect and beautiful the way it is. The World is to be enjoyed and we should express compassion for others and all living things and the property of others. A human being encounters projections as if realities, attempts to modify experiences to keep the desired and avoid the threatening ones, and continually reinforces the beliefs of inner security and feeling of abundance. When we are in a state of acceptance, we love our friends and family instead of being critical, and we are willing to love them in spite of their limitations, which we willingly overlook. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6

The way people appear to us from this space is that everyone is actually doing the best they can with what they have at the moment. We see that all of life is evolving towards its perfection, and we are in sync with the laws of the universe and consciousness. In this state we really begin to understand love. Love is a stable state, a permanent condition of a relationship. The source of love is seen to be within ourselves, emanating from our own nature and reaching out to include others. To know your own happiness, and that it is now, nor to leave it to after-reflection to look back upon the preferable past with a heavy and self-accusing heart, that you did not choose it when you might have chosen it, is all that is necessary to complete your felicity.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6