Tao Of Now

- Strephon Says 30 Life Values

Strephon gives the values by which he lives his life and challenges us on our values. The values a person lives are more descriptive of a person than personality itself.

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This is Strephon Kaplan-Williams.

You meet me first in voice. Please accept my voice and open to it. I have been a public speaker for many years yet now at older age maybe I have slowed down some. This is an older, maybe, wisdom voice. This is how I hear myself and intend myself to be in communicating with you.

You are familiar with fast snappy, interviews. I am not snappy young and inexperienced. I give you life wisdom not available through books or intelligence alone.

I give you my reality as I am, not always an easy task. I give you reality because it is the reality of direct experience that tests me to the core. One friend years back asked me, why are you associating with such losers? I was shocked because she had come back into my life after making her million dollars and was questioning why I was with these my best friends and people.

To me my people were not failures on the road to life. They did not make the money my millionaire friend made, yet they had developed deep values of compassion and self-worth. Their life energies went into helping people survive the wounds of life more than making a lot of money or achieving meaningless recognition in the world.

I rejected my friend’s achievement advice. I did not turn my deep process work into formula work to sell to others and make a lot of money with. In rejecting her success model I rejected the world of materialism and sought instead to develop the values of compassion, realism and healing presence.

Nor did I take to the temptation to be a packaged guru, an enlightened master, while denying that I am anything special. I did not embrace positive thinking or the New Age. No Celestine Prophecy came my way to make me bunches of money earned on a false paradise view for the inadequate. Nor did I talk with God, or God with me, and publish the results in the spiritual money-market of America.

This has been my life. This is my life to this very day. I live a value-centered life. I do not live a money-centered life. I have made money as I needed to. I have spent far more time in deep meditation on the condition of humanity. I have spent far more time developing the art of communicating values. I have spent far more time on entering deeply into people’s suffering as they have chosen to work with me. I have spent far more time as a self-realizer than as a company founder or builder. I will and have worked with anybody. I will help clarify your issues with you. I will help you see the choices you can make. I will not give you advice, yet I will clarify where I can. I will be with you fully in the moments we are together and as you allow me to be with you. I ask for no achievements. I ask for no praise. I ask for no expectations met. I ask only a daily wage and that you do not talk about me positively or negatively behind my back.

Yet for those I do help through my thought and my actions I do ask that you pay the help forward, that you do give good value in the world, that you do stop exploiting people by not being honest with them. I do ask that you offer but not sell anything. I do ask that you give people reality, that you do not promise what is not deliverable, that you do not exploit others to meet your money goals, that you give up extravagant lifestyles and live a budget economy, wasting little.

If you live a humanity lifestyle, you do not need surely a new car every couple of years, you do not need a bigger and larger house, you do not need expensive vacations, you do not need to eat in fancy, expensive restaurants, you do not need expensive jewelry, you do not need presents at Christmas, you do not need to celebrate your birthday every year, you do not need to party with friends, you do not need to start relationships and then fail them, you do not need to talk negatively behind people’s backs, you do not need to blame anybody or anything for your own troubles, you do not need to be hard on your body through alcohol, drugs, smoking, over-work or hard-driving sports activity.

Nor do you need to waste any of your precious and limited existence on much entertainment, browsing the internet, looking at television programs or the news everyday. Cure your compulsions to be with friends and engage in long phone calls that go nowhere. Don’t waste time visiting family and friends unless you have contemporary purpose together. Meet the needs of others as well as yourself, but keep the balance please.

Take time for yourself. Reflect each day on who you are and what you are doing with your life. Take full responsibility for your actions and find out what truly motivates you as you live your daily life.

Take time for your real self.

Live a Moral Imperative. Exploit no one. Waste little. Steal nothing.

Seduce no one. Create fear in no one. Destroy nothing that has value.

Live a simple life style. Focus your time on projects of value. Live at the edge of personal change, improving yourself daily.

Love and accept yourself so that you can love and accept others.

Never leave behind the challenge to consciousness and self-responsibility for all that you do, or others do as well within your sphere.

This is who I am.