September 6
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Today's
quotation:
I am willing to put myself through anything;
temporary pain
or discomfort means nothing to me as long
as I can see
that the experience will take me to a new
level. I am interested
in the unknown, and the only path
to the unknown is through
breaking barriers, an often
painful process.
Diane Nyad
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Today's
Meditation:
I
can't begin to count how many times I've avoided certain
things because I was afraid of the pain. I spent
many years being lonely not because of who I was, but
because of what I feared-- the pain of rejection or
neglect. I've missed out on many opportunities
because I simply wasn't willing to take risks that might
have caused me more pain than I thought I could handle.
Nowadays,
though, I often thrive on risk. I find that life is
much more dynamic and interesting if I focus on what I can
do-- even if it seems I can't-- rather than on the
limitations that seem to face me. Part of this has
come about because, like Diana, I've realized that all
pain is temporary and that whenever I do experience pain
at whatever level, I come out of it being stronger, and
knowing myself a bit better than I did before.
The
unknown is more frightening than the known. It holds
mystery and potential hazards, but I believe the hazards
are there when we put them there. The unknown also
holds many, many treasures that we never can discover if
we don't explore there.
We
simply cannot reach new levels if we continue to do the
same things each day. Many people feel the
frustration of having "plateaued," but their
frustration can be dealt with only by finding acceptable
risks to take to move onward and outward. That's how we grow in life, and once we
acknowledge that pain isn't necessarily the awful thing
we've grown up to believe it is, then we can take more and
more risks and grow more as people.
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Questions to
consider:
Why do we tend to avoid pain, or things that may be
painful?
What does pain indicate to us? What's it trying
to tell us?
How many extremely easy things have been very valuable
to you?
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For further
thought:
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of
being
tired, the workmen
and peasants have this fine
expression: “It
is the trade entering his body.” Each time that we have
some pain to go through, we
can say to ourselves
quite
truly that it is the universe,
the order and beauty of the
world,
and the obedience of God
that are entering our body.
Simone Weil
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