Byrne - Hero

This book is about a story. Its a story that changed my life, and throughout history has changed the lives of many other human beings. This story has been told since the beginning of time. It has appeared in different forms in every culture and country of the world, but the essence of the story always remains the same. The story is about a hero who undertakes a courageous journey on planet Earth.

The setting of planet Earth is an exquisitely beautiful one filled with vast oceans, mountains, jungles, breathtaking coastlines, sweeping plains, and spectacular animals and creatures of every kind and along with the beauty of the natural world is all of the joy that is experienced by the human beings who inhabit it. But as the hero discovers, life is also very challenging for human beings on earth. Growth is painful, from childhood to adolescence, adulthood, and eventual old age, and there are the experiences of physical suffering, poverty, and grief, and eventual death for everyone.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything. Theres light and theres darkness, near and far, up and down, left and right, hot and cold, and these opposites are experienced at every level of life. There are friends and enemies, falling in love and falling out of love, security and uncertainty, wealth and poverty, bliss and despair, and in every human there are positive and negative qualities. On planet Earth, everything has its opposite.

And its this world with its equal potential for great joy, great love, great challenges, and great suffering that you wanted to come to. Its you who wanted to come here and experience the adventure of living in such a beautiful but challenging place. Its you who were determined that there was no difficulty so great it would stop you from discovering the hero within you. Its you who wanted to take the Heros Journey for you are the hero of this story.

You are not left unequipped when you undertake the Heros Journey. You were born with immensely powerful abilities within you that would enable you to realize your dreams and overcome every trial, obstacle, and challenge you would encounter. But in being born into the limited material world of planet Earth, your mind and consciousness became limited too, which meant you wouldnt remember your true nature, and you wouldnt remember the powerful abilities within you. You would have to discover them for yourself.

Only through completing the Hero's Journey and allowing your highest human qualities to arise within you will you finally become the hero. And then a new purpose will overtake your heart to help those who are beginning their own Heros Journey, with everything you discovered on the path.

The people youre about to meet have already taken their Heros Journey. Theyve come together from all over the world to share their stories and everything they experienced to help you begin your own Heros Journey.

Liz Murray from the United States of America

Liz Murray was born to drug-addicted parents and grew up in poverty in New York City. After her mother died and her father went into a shelter when Liz was a teenager, she found herself homeless. Liz hadnt finished school, was sleeping in stairwells, and shoplifting food to survive, but it was at that time that a dream was born within her to attend Harvard University. Four years later Liz fulfilled her dream, and through sharing her story she has gone on to become a best-selling author and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world.

G. M. Rao from India

G. M. Rao grew up in a small village in India with no electricity and no telephones, where residents had to line up for their quota of supplies. Despite failing his first attempt at his junior high exams, Mr. Rao wanted to go into business so that he could settle down one day with a small business and a nice house. Luckily, he also stayed very open to opportunities that came his way. From his initial business of a jute mill, Mr. Rao gradually expanded his businesses until today his huge empire includes power plants, development of airports and highways, and urban development.