Man Up! (Daily Meditations For The Soul)

What does it mean to be a man, a real man? Does it have anything to do with physiology or gender? How about size and constitution? Historically, these things have often defined a real man relative to just being male. But, throughout that same history, there have been real men who have denounced these physical manifestations as indicative or definitive of a real man. These men were real movers and shakers, yet they often did not represent the iconic masculine image. They knew something profound, amazing, and secret. They have always attempted to share this knowledge, but the message has often been lost to those who did not fully understand it, but sought instead to control its power. Pick any great religious or civic leader through history, and you will find this message in their words, and more importantly, in their deeds. This knowledge is now available to anyone who desires to claim it for their own. In this book you will find the keys to this knowledge.The interesting thing about this profound understanding is, your brain cannot fully wrap itself around it. You will not be able to completely intellectualize it, because it lies outside the realm of the intellect. This is why it has been obscured through time. As we move more and more into an intellectually driven world, the knowledge of what it means to be a real man is being pushed aside. As we continue to reduce what it means to be human to physiology, chemistry, psychology, and genetics, we also lose that undefinable quality that makes us human, much more than the sum of our parts. My greatest desire in writing this book is for you to reclaim that quality, breathe life into it, and share it with the world. Become the real man, not the simpleminded caricature that has been used to define us for so long. Use this book as a road map to finding, and releasing, the real man within you.This book is laid out in a series of thirty one meditations, each for a day of the month. But, do not feel constrained to that format. You are your own man, and you must follow your own path. If there is a quote that is speaking to you, go there. This book is meant to guide you along the path to becoming a real man, it cannot, however, determine where you are on that path. Your daily struggles will determine that for you. If you do not know where you are, then definitely feel free to take it one day at a time, in the order it is presented. All I ask is that, no matter how you approach the material, you open your mind to the information presented. Some of it will easily fit within your preconceived notions about what a real man is. Some of it, however, might surprise you. The thing which you should always keep in the back of your mind: being a real man is about being fully human, not the manimal of the past. What is a manimal? A man who has succumbed to those lesser qualities which we all have within us: greed, sloth, envy, cowardice, dishonesty, brutishness, exploitation, manipulation, peevishness, pettiness, and on and on. We all know the manimal, we have all been him. But, we also know the real man, because, he too resides within each and every one of us. This book is about setting him free. It is about becoming the greatest expression of yourself that you can be. It is about Manning Up!