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Today's
Meditation:
Oh,
how dearly we hold on to the status quo! How simple
it is to keep on going on in the same ways in order to
avoid the unknown, the different, the changes that life
offers us all the time! Most of us get to like who
we are, if for no other reason than it's pretty safe and
comfortable. And we ignore the cognitive dissonance
when it arrives, causing tension between what we are and
what we know we could be if we were to take a few risks
and make some important changes.
Who
I am right now is not the person I have the potential to
be. Who I'll be next year will not be the person I
am now. But is that person going to be someone who's
much further along in life and growth than I am now, or
will that person be someone who's continued to run the
treadmill of maintaining the status quo, and who hasn't
grown at all, neither spiritually, emotionally, nor
intellectually.
Robert
Frost said "I took the road less traveled by, and
that has made all the difference." You're
facing many forks in your personal road right now, and
whether you stick to the same road or take a risk and take
one of the forks is completely up to you. Know,
though, that when you take a risky fork the person that
you are right now will cease to be, and you will become
someone who has taken an important risk in an effort to
become more than you were before.
What
you are is beautiful and wonderful. What you can be
is even more glorious, but you never will become that
person until you're ready and willing to let go and let
life take you where you're meant to go, not necessarily
where you believe you should go.
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