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September
3
Become a
possibilitarian. No
matter
how dark things seem
to be or actually
are, raise your sights and
see possibilities--
always see them, for they’re always there.
Norman
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Today's
Meditation:
A "possibilitarian"--what a nice word!
I'd like to think that I'm a person who focuses mainly on
possibility and potential, rather than on limits and
obstacles. I'd like to think that I have enough
faith in life and living to believe that better things are
possible for me and others, for a possibilitarian is a
person who lives with hope as a best friend and a person
for whom dreams are a sign of the future and not idle
wishes.
If I can focus on possibilities, then my life won't get
bogged down in the mire of the status quo when things
aren't going well. If I become a possibilitarian,
then I'll have an extra tool in my kit that can help me
through difficult times, for the hardest part of difficult
times is dealing with the fear that they'll always stay
hard or that they'll get even worse. And I can also
help others to see possibilities in their own lives, and
the friend who might not have dared to go back to school
or who might not have taken on the challenge of opening
her own restaurant may be able to take heart and face the
challenge that otherwise they might have backed away from.
"Raise your sights." It sounds easy enough
to do, but the truth is that it's often very
difficult. Being someone who believes in the
possibilities of the human spirit isn't something that
comes naturally to most of us, and we do tend to have to
work at it. The impossible sometimes seems so strong
that it tricks us into thinking that it's the only way to
see things. But it really is up to us to work our
ways towards seeing possibilities-- after all, why would we
have been put on this planet full of so much potential if
we were intended only to get mired in the muck and never
accomplish anything, and never reach any of our dreams?
I prefer to be a possibilitarian and focus on what may be if
I put my mind and effort to it.
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Questions to
consider:
How often do you get stuck looking only at limitations and
impossibilities?
How might we help ourselves to learn to become better at
seeing the possibilities in life?
When things are dark, why is it so difficult to think of
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For further
thought:
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish
for wealth and power,
but for the
passionate sense of
the potential,
for the eye which,
ever young and
ardent, sees the
possible. . .
what wine is so sparkling,
so fragrant, so intoxicating, as
possibility!
Søren Kierkegaard
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