Life is something I have no control over. It’s just something that happens, win or lose. Now, video games, I’ve got a chance! I focus all of my attention, and die a thousand times and keep coming back…just to get to the next level.I wonder what would happen if I focused on my life with the same intensity, and searched to find the magic sword? #findthemagic
Where you are going is so much more important than where you have been. Where you have been has done its job, got you here, put on its coat and left for the evening. Now the job, the job that was always your job, is to SEE. NOW. What’s right in front of you.
We are taught since youth to do the right things, develop the right habits, and build a good life. As words are only as good as their interpretation, perhaps stating the formula for a successful life in this way does more harm than good, for maybe we are not building at all…Maybe life is more like sculpting; not an additive process at all, but a subtractive one, where unessential layers are peeled back, or chipped away- revealing what was hiding…
How do you define greatness? Is it in wealth accumulated? Is it the adoration of multitudes or the kind words written about you? Perhaps Greatness needs a new definition; perhaps greatness can be seen in the love you have left to spare, after life has ravaged you with grief.
In Martial Arts, you don’t overestimate your opponent, for your fear will defeat you before the battle begins. Neither do you underestimate your opponent, because by the time you realize the advantage of speed and timing…it’s too late…you lose. Both overestimation and underestimation are states of thought, and success can not be found in thought. Success lies in the stillness before thought, allowing response to the opponent to be the perfect one, Like a reflection on the water. This is…
Illness doesn’t mean we’re weak.weakness doesn’t mean we’re doomed.Obstacles don’t mean we are cursed,Our silly mind is the label-maker,and we think the label it prints is the truth!Bring out the label maker that inspires your best self,That labels your curses the makers of greatness, and your darkness…the home of you stars.
He called me often, needed a hand. He said “please…sometime, call ME for help!” I said I was always more than willing to help. With tireless devotion, he tended to his wife…stricken with MS…and I don’t know which of them suffered more. But never once did he complain, though his face showed the strain. “I can’t help it” he said “I love her so much!” and I was reminded again that LOVE is a verb…
In the mid 1500’s Hernán Cortés landed in the new world. Seeing that he was drastically out numbered, his men asked him what they should do…”burn the boats” he said. If you have a dream, set fire to your “plan b”.
The dance of opposites is what makes everything possible.Dark doesn’t exist without light,just as computer code needs both zeros and ones.We come to grasp, hopefully, that how we choose to usethe experiences of our past, shape who we arebut do we ever consider that the future is also calling usto who we are to become? Who we are right now…depends on both.
Be the Warriornot the worrier.Warriors are forged by the routines they keepwhen no one is watching, no one is around.A Warrior knows that it’s the balance of trainingthe body, the heart, the mind, and the soul; practices that differ for every individual, that forges their spirit.We are born to find our unique facets, and never make apologiesfor keeping them sharp;and never wait for the applause. (image Courtesy of RENE RAUSCHENBERGER at Pixabay)