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Today's
Meditation:
Wouldn't
it be great to continue to have these kinds of
qualities? Wouldn't it be great to live life like it's
a great adventure full of wonderful and potentially
dangerous things, but trusting that life will take care of
us? The processes of life are very important to us,
and we learn very little if we don't trust those
processes. Some things take much longer than we think
they should, and we try to hurry the processes along on our
schedule instead of on life's schedule.
If
we trusted the processes more, we'd have more courage.
We wouldn't see the risks as these immense, terrible
obstacles that hold us back; instead, we'd be able to face
them knowing that life was behind us, and that no matter
what the outcome, we'd learn and grow from our experience.
Somehow
as we grow and we gain more "knowledge," we lose
our curiosity. We take things for granted, and we stop
taking risks because we think we know all that we need to
know. But when we act this way, we've stopped living
and we've begun existing. There's too much in this
world for us to ignore it and stop learning from it, but we
somehow like our comfort zones more than we like the
possibility of taking important risks.
I
have to remind myself constantly: trust life. As
I remind myself more, it becomes more natural to me, but I
still have to force myself to do some things that seem to be
outside of my comfort areas. My goal is to get back to
a point at which I do things because they're outside of my
comfort area, and that will be a very good point to
reach. Because then I'll be able to relate much more
easily to the kids who are our best teachers. |
