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April
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Today's
quotation:
We do not succeed
in changing things according to our desire,
but gradually our desire
changes. The situation that we hoped to
change because it was
intolerable becomes unimportant. We have
not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely
determined to do, but life has taken
us around it, led us past it,
and then if we turn around to gaze at the
remote past, we can
barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible
has it
become.
Marcel
Proust
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Today's
Meditation:
It's
nice that we grow up. As pleasant as the idea of
holding on to our childhood is, there are many nice
things about maturing and gaining a strong sense of
perspective on the world. Our perceived wants and
needs change, and the things that used to seem so
important to us, the things that we allowed to cause us so
much pain, later seem to be completely unimportant.
All of the time that we spent worrying or agonizing over
them now seems to be wasted time. And hopefully, we
mature enough not to repeat that kind of mistake.
One
of the greatest joys of growing up and maturing is the
strengthening of our ability to let go. When we let
go of our desire for things, our desire to have other
people do and act as we wish them to, our desire to
"take care" of things no matter what they are,
we grow stronger, more peaceful, more aware, and more able
to spread our peace to others. We're able to pull
away from competition for things that don't truly matter,
saving our energy and our focus for things that do.
Today's
desires one day will seem small and insignificant, but
that doesn't diminish their importance for us today.
But we don't have to diminish something's importance to be
able to face it with a clear mind and a readiness to take
care of it. If we can back off and look at it from a
perspective of seeing a bigger picture, though, and
realize that it won't be the end of the world if this
desire goes unfulfilled, then we'll be able to put this
desire in its proper place.
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Questions to
consider:
What do you want right now? Do you want someone
to change, or do you want some material item? Will getting this
change you or help you as a person?
Think of a desire from two or three years ago.
How did it affect you then? How important does it seem now? Would it affect you
in the same way today?
What would life be like without desires? |
For further
thought:
Moderate desires
constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which
the world
can yield. Those who have this character are prepared, in whatever
situation they are, therewith to be content and have learned the science
of being happy.
Timothy Dwight |
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