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Today's
Meditation:
"To
be free from anxieties." This sounds like a
very difficult goal to reach, one that millions would love
to achieve, but few do. After all, doesn't life
throw us many reasons to be anxious every day of our
lives?
I
suppose that depends upon how we see what comes our way,
and how we approach our lives. I believe that if we
do understand our duties-- and understand the fact that
they should be self-determined-- we'll spend our lives
trying to fulfill those duties. Once our focus is on
what we're doing right now, our cares about the future
will lessen, for we're concerned with the task at hand,
not the tasks that may or may not be at hand tomorrow.
Many
people have had businesses fail, thinking it's a great
tragedy, only to find that by losing their business,
they've had other, more fulfilling doors open up. So
why worry that your business may fail next year? If
it does, you'll move on to something else, from which
you'll learn completely different-- and even more
valuable-- lessons.
I've
figured out what I want to do with my life for the time
being, and I'm doing it. I'm not worrying about
money that I've lost or that I won't be making over the
next year. I know that I like where I am today, and
I have some things that I have to do today. I'll
focus on them and try to make them as positive as I can,
and if I can enjoy the present by doing that, then I can
help myself to avoid worrying about what may come next
week or next year. The "true felicity of
life" comes from a series of decisions on our part
concerning how we approach life and how we react to it,
not as a result of our reactions to things that happen
around us in life.
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