Most people have liberty. They can go where they want and do the things they feel like doing. But too many people are also slaves to their impulses. They are grown reactive rather than proactive, meaning that they are like seafoam pounding against a rocky shore, going in whatever direction the tide might take them. If they are spending time with their families and someone from work calls with a crisis, they hit the ground running, never stopping to think which activity is more vital to their overall well being and to their life's purpose, such people have liberty but lack of freedom. They lack a key ingredient to a meaningful, enlightened life.
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You are what you think about all day long, you are also what you say to yourself all day long. If you say that you are old and tired, it will manifest in your external reality. If you say you are weak and lack enthusiasm, this too will be the nature of your world. But if you say that you are healthy, dynamic and fully alive, your life will be transformed. You see, the words you say to yourself affect you self-image and your self-image determines what actions you take.
We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh. So start your day on a delightful footing. Laugh, play and give thanks for all you have, every day will be an exquisitely rewarding one.
Sure I am that this day we are masters of out fate that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Through the steel of discipline, you will forge a character rich with courage and peace. Through the virtue of will, you are destined to rise to life’s highest ideal and live within a heavenly mansion filled with all that is good, joyful, and vital. Without them, you are lost like a mariner without a compass one who eventually sinks with his ship.
Mistakes are part of life and essential for growth. It’s like that saying, “Happiness comes through good judgment, good judgment comes through experience, and experience comes through bad judgment. But there is something very wrong with making the same mistakes over and over again. This shows a complete lack of self-awareness, the very quality that separates humans and animals.
Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less. The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure. Yet failure is essential to success in any endeavor. Failure, test us and allows us to grow. It offers us lessons and guides us long the path of enlightenment. It is fundamental Law of Nature to profit through loss.
Character is higher that intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think, your character is built when you act in a way that corresponds with the principles.
