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Today's
quotation:
When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a
minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the
place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
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Today's
Meditation:
One
of the advantages of looking at life from a positive
perspective is that it rarely seems as if everything is
going against you. Once you realize that life truly
is neutral, then you see that when we are down, we usually
are bringing ourselves down. Yes, relatives will die
and jobs will be lost and terrible things will happen, but
for most of us, these things can be dealt with as
individual occurrences rather than as some sort of
conspiracy that life has concocted.
When
things do go bad, we mustn't get caught up in the attitude
of being a victim, for that attitude simply helps to
perpetuate the negative happenings. If we can take
Harriet at her word, then we realize that we go through
cycles in life, just as the tides of the oceans do.
There are high tides and there are low, but neither one
will stick around any longer than it must-- each gives way
for the other in its time.
I've
had times when it has seemed that things couldn't get any
worse for me. At those times, a strange sort of
optimism came with that idea-- I've known that because they
couldn't get any worse, they had to be getting better
soon. And I'm convinced that part of the reason that
things have gotten better is because my attitude has
shifted to one of optimism for better things, even if that
optimism has been somewhat guarded. My attitude has
helped to cause the changes.
The
tide does turn-- always. Life does change for us--
always. When things are going badly, we have the
choice of letting our thoughts get caught up in the
negative aspects of what's happening to us, or keeping our
thoughts focused on the good and the positive. And
our thoughts can help us through rough times if we but
remember that life is neutral towards us-- it can not and
will not try to harm us or bring us down.
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