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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.
When we practice or prepare internally, we may find that the choices that we make are quite easy. Although, we stand ourselves against possible pain, rejection or deprivation, sometimes, even against any criticism. But once we’re ready to move into a new stage or activity, we find ourselves going at it with grace, with strength, and those failures, even if we don’t succeed at first can only make us better. We’re not procrastinators. Generally, most people aren’t; but it takes us time sometimes to enact what we know. Transformation never happens easily. It happens through some combination of learning to relax where you already are and at the same time, keeping the possibility open that your capacity and my capacity, and the capacity of any human being is limitless. That’s the beauty of life. We can never know in advance whether we are going to succeed with something new. That’s why doubt is a condition of the process and if you know that, you’ll be able to make it through the day. Each one of us has a voice but that voice is split: one to the right and one to the left. One says you can make it and the other one says don’t even try it. We know what these voices are and we know what they’re trying to get us to do. We don’t always have the answers but we could strive to become better. Living is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights will let you. Interestingly enough, however, you can make it through a whole trip with that exact same limit, that you can’t see further than that. That’s what life is all about. Don’t try to look into the future and redesign your complete vision. Do what you can today. Start with one step at a time. Take that first step and engender into your future. You have unlimited capabilities. They may be deep within you, they may be buried, they might even be, at this point, unknown to you. But once you make the decision to change, you will see, they will emerge with alacrity, they will come to the fore and they will help you become the best that you can be. They will guide you, they will even help you. The qualities that you have are talents and gifts that the Creator of the world instilled in you. You now have to discover them and use them to change the world.
Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 598 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
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