Fear drives us towards protecting ourselves from a difficult past, while convincing us that we’re investing in a better future.
If we were truly investing in the future, fear of the past repeating itself would not feature in our efforts towards growth and new beginnings.
It is fear that manifests as illness or disease in our bodies, before any external threat overcomes us.
Fear robs us of what we have in the present moment.
When the present moment is lost, the future becomes a mirror into the past.
The cycle of fear is perpetuated as we find evidence of the past threatening to contaminate the future…and so the spiral continues until either it breaks, or we do.
When fear drives us, we look for, and find evidence that confirms our fears.
When we look for evidence that invalidates the fear, we’ll find reason to forge ahead with hope and courage, recognising that harbouring hope is already confirmation of our courage to rise above the fear.
What will you choose today?
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Tag: inspiration
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Fear or hope? Choose wisely
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It’s not always betrayal
Betrayal is not always a result of harsh words, lies, or cruel action.
I’ve found that the deepest cuts were always from the silence when words were needed, the restrained sincerity when an embrace was called for, or inaction from those when I looked expectantly towards them while recalling the times they drew on my energy in the moments when I barely had enough to sustain my own spirit.
And I often wonder how many may look at me and feel the same way.
We’re often so focused on what we’re not getting from others, that we don’t pause to consider what they may not be getting from us either.
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The impossible dream
When home is elusive, the world feels ominous.
A journey to a place you’ve never been holds the promise of peace, despite never having known what peace feels like.
It’s a cry of the soul, in tones and words that no one seems to understand.
But you keep crying, and you keep trying, because something deep inside convinces you that there must be more than this.
If only it was possible to know why this never felt enough, it would be so much easier to figure out why home is still worth searching for.
The impossible dream that is too important to abandon, but too wholesome to feel worthy of it.
It truly is a long longing, for something we imagine would finally reach the deep, dark recesses of our being, and offer it the light it has been yearning since our first breath.
Will the yearning remain even after our last breath?
Or is hope for fools who dare to dream despite living a recurrent nightmare?
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Willingly obliged
This is most true for religious subscription and cultural heritage, but applies to every relationship in our life.
Choice inspires willingness because a choice is driven by our belief in the benefit of our contribution towards others.
Obligation inspires contempt because it is most often associated with the threat of a negative repercussion.
What drives our choices and our sense of obligation therefore must be considered when we find ourselves growing angry at the thought of non-compliance from others, or the expectation of compliance from ourselves by others.
It is quite possible to choose consciously to serve an obligation. But that choice must be done willingly and not under duress. Duress turns a choice into an unwilling obligation.
Fear has a limited life span. Therefore, the moment we establish compliance with a lifestyle or behaviour through fear, we must prepare ourselves for the inevitable backlash.
Live consciously. Love deliberately. And serve without obligation.
Perhaps, beloved, in that lies the secret to experiencing peace in this lifetime.
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Forever hopeful
Hope is born in moments when you have no reason to believe in the moment that is to follow, but something good unexpectedly lands in your lap.
It’s born when that unexpected call changes your life for the better.
It’s born when that stranger smiled an understanding smile in that moment that you thought the world was oblivious to your presence.
It’s born when you wake in the morning and discover that despite your worst premonitions, you have a good day.
Hope can be torturous when the events of your life have given you little reason to believe that the good that you experience will last for more than a fleeting moment.
But, knowing that it’s possible for it to last beyond that brief period of joy is what makes it impossible to ignore the hope that bubbles beneath the surface.
Hope is faith. And faith is hope.
Both are intricately woven into the fabric of our struggles.
When we focus on our struggles only, we lose sight of all those moments that planted the seeds of hope in our hearts so many lifetimes before the present moment.
In forgetting, we burden ourselves with more than the burdens of life. We burden ourselves with the burden of ingratitude as well.
Focus on hope, and faith will have your back.
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It’s not yet time to quit
Inspiration…if it came easily, it wouldn’t really be inspired, it would be convenient.
It’s in those moments when everything we want to take for granted is not available that we are pushed to consider the impossible as a possibility.
That’s when we dig really deep.
That’s when we abandon convention.
That’s when what we question the limits that we assumed were unconquerable, and attack it with a ferocity that reveals its irrelevance.
Inspiration is what we discover at the end of exhaustion, when giving up is not an option.
Don’t stop.
Keep pushing.
Keep believing.
Your dream is within reach.
Just don’t stop reaching for it.
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Be gentle…to you
When you treat the vulnerable or the gentle ones with contempt, you create the same monsters that made you.
The moment that we realise what we assume to be our nature is in fact a product of our upbringing, we’ll be able to make conscious decisions about who we want to be.
Sometimes, we place so much emphasis on respecting our emotions that we prevent ourselves from seeking answers as to our emotional response.
Humanness is not found in being infinitely understanding, but in balancing that understanding with decisive and purposeful action.
Striking that balance becomes more difficult when raised on a diet of self-doubt and fear.
That self-doubt and fear drives us towards paying forward what we may have received at the hands of similarly struggling souls.
Mindfulness about this state is the only chance of breaking that cycle of harshness or pain.
Be kind to yourself. Begin by seeking to understand what shaped you into who you are, so that you may be able to choose consciously who you want to be.
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Dare to dream
When we pursue the impossible, we achieve the unbelievable.
But, we’re often so distracted by how impossible our goal might appear, that we lose sight of everything that its pursuit offers us.
Fortune cookie wisdom tells us that it’s the journey that matters, not the destination.
Yet, we lose sight of the growth that the journey offers, and give up the pursuit of a seemingly impossible destination.
Today is a good day to take that step towards that impossible dream that you’ve been courting with for so long.
No time like the present, right?
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