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Today's
quotation:
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated
through you; and because there is only one of you
in all of time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham
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Today's
Meditation:
You
bring to the world something very special, something very
unique. You are the only one of you that ever has
existed, and the way you use your humanity is unlike any
other human being ever has used his or her energy and life
force. Who and what you are is truly unique.
Do you give yourself credit for that fact? Do you
spend any of your time trying to develop your uniqueness
or trying to learn new ways to expend your energy that
will help other people to live their lives well?
It's
very important that we recognize and respect our
uniqueness if we're going to contribute to the world based
on the gifts that we've been given. Many people
spend their lives trying to give in the ways that they see
others giving, and they're perplexed or frustrated when
they don't see the same results that others see.
They don't understand that they need to find their own
ways of contributing, ways that are suited to them and
their gifts.
Think
of it this way: if I put gasoline in a car, the
potential energy in the gas can be turned into
motion. If I put the same gasoline into a generator, that potential
energy can be turned into electricity. If the
generator tried to turn that potential energy into motion,
it would become very frustrated, for that's not what
generators are meant to do.
A
lot of energy flows through you every day. How do
you direct it? How do you translate it? What
is the end product that you cause that energy to
become? How we use our energy is one of the most
important aspects of who we are and who we become, and
it's completely up to us to learn to use it as well as we
can.
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