You Are the Expert
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You are the expert of your own life. Often, we look at so many other people and we forget to look into ourselves to find the answers to our questions. This notion of practice, something that we have to continuously reinvent and reinvigorate ourselves is crucial to our capacity to change. Change is something which will take time, irrespective of the person we are.
I remember my father, bless his heart, who used to smoke. He couldn’t stop smoking even though he tried many times, and once, he visited the doctor and the doctor told him that he would only have a few months to live given the extensive amount of smoking he had done throughout his life. On the very same day, I watched my father walk right into the bathroom and take a whole pack of cigarettes and crumble it to pieces, never to touch it again. As a matter of fact, he lived 22 more years from that incident. Knowing that he could do it, he reserved the right at any given time to choose the kind of life he was going to live. (more…)
