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Today's
Meditation:
We'd
have to redefine "success" from the very
beginning if we were to accept Artur's vision of what
success truly means. But what's wrong with
that? Most of the people who achieve success as it's
defined in most of our cultures end up with problems like
high blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, and even
cancer as the price of the "success" that
they've pursued for so long. So who really has
succeeded, though--the person who has touched many lives
in positive ways, or the person who has made more money or
gained more clients for his or her company? I would
say that both have succeeded in achieving certain goals,
but I know which person I would rather be on the day I
die.
Life,
of course, brings us many things on its own
terms. Many of us spend much of our time
fighting those things because they don't seem to fit in
with what we want to do or to become. If a person
comes into my life who has ideas about how I could do
things differently, chances are that I won't accept that
person--I'll argue with or ignore him or her. If I
have a certain time of economic uncertainty, I'll fight it
as unfair and something that I have to change--but perhaps
life has a reason for bringing that person or that
situation to my life.
Life
is as it is. We tend to think that we can make it
what we want it to be. Acceptance is a very powerful
word, one that can change our lives for the better if we
adopt it as a way of life. Acceptance of my
financial situation doesn't mean that I'll just give up
and be poor for the rest of my life--but it does mean that
I recognize that that is how things are right now, and
I'll be more at peace when I recognize and accept that
fact.
"Unconditional"
acceptance. That first word makes it even more
difficult, but even stronger if we're able to practice
it. Let life be as it is, and sculpt your life
within the boundaries that life gives you. It knows
what you need, and if you accept it, all that you need
will be yours.
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