Today's
quotation:
Since we live in a changing
universe, why do people
oppose change? If a rock is in the way, the root of
a tree
will change its direction.
The dumbest animals try to adapt themselves to
changed conditions. Even
a rat will change
its tactics to get a piece of cheese.
Melvin B. Tolson
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Today's
Meditation:
Change
is one of the most wonderful aspects of our lives, and if
we can embrace change, we can embrace life itself.
Another side to that idea, though, is that until we can
embrace change, we cannot embrace life itself.
We
have been given a wonderful gift in the ability to adapt,
and it's important that we take advantage of that
ability. Unfortunately, many of us have been taught
consistently that change is somehow "bad," and
we do our best to avoid change in the more important
aspects of our lives. This avoidance leads us to
hold on to situations such as jobs that make us unhappy or
marriages that simply aren't working, all in order to
avoid the unknown results that change will bring us.
But the people I've known who have been laid off from work
have almost always found work just as rewarding or even
more so; most of the people I know who have left damaging
relationships have found very positive ones later (unless
they hook up with someone just like the other person, but
that's a different story!).
The
world changes constantly. The patterns of heat and
cold on this planet consistently shift, bringing us ice
ages and times of great heat. These shifts happen
even without our "help" from global
warming. Animals evolve, adapting to their
environments. We change our clothes, we change our
homes, we change our minds. Our tastes change, our
desires change, and our beliefs change. If we want
to be completely stagnant and never change at all, then we
have our work cut out for us, for that's hardly
possible. Change is for us to embrace and to learn
from, and as we adapt to changes in our lives we grow as
people, and we grow into different people. And our lives
become much richer for all the changes we go through.
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