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Today's
Meditation:
Are
you courageous? What about right now, or in the next
hour or two? Will there be an opportunity for you to
demonstrate your courage? Will you need to make a
decision or plan a course of action that may take a bit of
courageous determination? Or will you be tempted to
follow the easy path, the road more often taken, so that
things are easy and you won't face the possibility of
failure while treading on unknown roads and byways?
Today,
I want to do at least one thing that's courageous, one thing
that tests me a little more than I'm normally tested.
I want to try something new and different, and I want to do
so honestly and lovingly. Perhaps I know someone who
could use a bit of constructive criticism that I've avoided
giving. Perhaps there's another job I can apply for,
one that will challenge me much more than the one I have
now. Perhaps I can suggest change in a system that
desperately needs change. Perhaps I'll dare to spend
the money on something I definitely need, trusting that I'll
still have enough money to meet my needs in the future.
Freedom.
It comes only from inside, and it can come only when we cut
the chains of fear that keep us shackled to old behaviors
and old ways of doing things. Courage isn't, of
course, the absence of fear, but the forging ahead even
though we do fear.
So
many of our little decisions are based on fear that we keep
ourselves out of a state of freedom. The only ones who
can provide us with the freedom that we so desperately need
are ourselves, and the only place that the freedom can come
from is deep inside ourselves. And the only thing that
can pull it out from the deep is our own courage, even on
the small, day-to-day level.
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