“It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”
– Max Frisch
“Don’t get your hopes up!”
Were you warned of this as a child? What does this say? It says that life is bound to disappoint you. It says, don’t aim high because you’re not likely to get what you want. It says that we can’t expect good things to happen to us.
As our thinking creates our reality, this kind of thinking dooms us to a mundane existence. It’s time to change our stories. Why not focus the immense power of our hearts and minds on bringing to fruition the very best life has to offer? Allow yourself to hope and believe in all possibilities.
“Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”
– Samuel Smiles
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
interesting!
it’s funny… i can look back through my life and see the patterns. from the earliest moments of feeling separate… feeling… “individual” we become scared. we panic. we fight. we conjure our “solution” and we engrain it in stone as if it solves all things. we use it as filters to filter all things. how constricted this makes us. how limiting.
i fight hard to survive. that’s been my “story.” i am realizing that i need to stop the fight. there is no fight. i simply must let all things flow… what happens is just life. nothing to fear. no enemy. no war. just let it flow. listen to it. learn from it… learn about the “self” from it. then continue with the living… only hopefully more expanded from the experience.
this i must do now. life has it’s ways of pushing… my tendency is to hold on too long. cling too long instead of accepting, assessing, and moving on. so life has once again FORCED the issue.
strange. there is such relief in that. i am feeling such a burden lifted. such an expanded horizon… but yes, the anxiety of the situation.
ah well. i will work to fight the anxiety as to enjoy the NEWness of all this. even though i can be stubborn and cling… when pushed i can really get into the clean, sweeping of the slate. it can be so refreshing…
