Today's
quotation:
Throughout
the years of your life you will face
many challenges;
remember that you can climb
the highest mountain, drive through the roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or
even sail across the roughest waters. It is only destined
by your attitude where you will end up in life. The most
important thing is don't let yourself
get lost in the
crowd.
Angela
Duvall
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Today's
Meditation:
How
many times have we heard about our attitudes, and how we
should "improve" them if we're going to get all
that we can out of life, if we want to be happy? I'm
not sure if the question at hand is really about
improvement, though-- I feel that I'm deciding which
attitude to bring to which situation each day of my life,
and that within me are all the positive attitudes that I
need to make something special of my life, as long as I
choose to bring the positive attitudes to each situation
in which I need them.
When
I see something beautiful that I desire, then I have the
choice to say to myself, "I'll never be able to
achieve or attain that." Or I can say,
"Wow-- that's what I want to do or have! Now I
just need to do the things I need to do to make it a
reality." The very attitude will allow me to
open doors and windows that can allow me to get closer to
my dreams. Imagine that someone has just given you a
beautiful new house and told you it's all yours. You
walk up to the front door and try it, but it's locked, so
you sigh miserably, turn around, and walk away.
You'll never know that the back door is open, and also a
few windows that you can get through. Your attitude
has defeated you, not the locked door.
The
"crowd" tends to see life in terms of
limitations. The people who surround us like to tell
us what's not possible to do. "You can't get in
that house," they say, "because the door's
locked." And if I get lost in how they see the
world, then they're right-- I can't get into that house
because I see the world through the lenses of their
limitations.
But
if I have the attitude that I'll explore possibility and
potential rather than limitations and obstacles, then I
will get into the house, and I will enjoy all it has to
offer.
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