I think from a feeling perspective, I would like…

I think from a feeling perspective, I would like them to feel too feelings. One is a an enlightened type of feeling from an intellectual and possibly emotional and possibly spiritual perspectives that they learn something that they did not know and feel that it would be beneficial or that it has been beneficial for them to hear this and that it will bring them some future benefit either for themselves or their family. The second the feeling that I think I wanted to elicit is you just used the word inspiration and and that's a very good word but I would use that synonymously almost with with enlightenment I I know that when I feel or hear or read something that has enlightened me it I find it inspiring in terms of it gives me a completely new perspective and multiple new directions that I can go to and reach whatever goes I'm trying to reach. Yeah I think inspiration would be a good word I think another word maybe a similar is uplifting. There are too many people that including myself that walk around extremely concerned troubled worried about everything that's going on and about everything that happened in the past and what's going to happen in the future and by if these words are this booklet or whatever it's going to turn out to be ends up being uplifting and takes a load off people's shoulders I think that would probably give me the most fulfillment.

— from Before Takeoff (front matter) · GB written

In the book

And on the days you can't, just hold the book and listen for me — because as long as you can hear me, I am not silent. What I hope you feel when you read it is two things, which to me are nearly the same thing: enlightened — that you learned something true and useful you didn't have before — and uplifted, with a little of the weight lifted off your shoulders. How to read it. Think of what follows not as commandments carved in stone but as brush strokes. An artist builds a painting in layers, going over it again and again, refining what is already there until it becomes something uniquely his own. — Before Takeoff (front matter)

I am only sketching in a few suggested strokes to help you begin; you are the exclusive artist of your own canvas, free to add to mine and to paint over it — I ask only that you give my strokes serious thought before you wipe them away. If these pages do their work, I would like you to feel two things when you read them: enlightened, that you learned something of value, and uplifted, that some weight came off your shoulders. I sometimes imagine one of you opening this letter long after me — in the year 2100, perhaps — and I confess I am fixed on a single question: will you open it in a spirit of happiness and gratitude, or with disappointment and anger? — Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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