Yin and yang. In and out. Up and
down. Evil and good. Opposites.
We deal with them every day, every
year for a life time. It is part of our journey. We struggle and survive; we
toil and win; we suffer and lose; we love and we cry. Sometimes in pain and
sometimes in joy. But we move along the daily spectrum to play out what will
be.
Although we generally do well with
this routine we certainly experience good times as well as lesser ones.
Hopefully there are more successes than losses, and usually there are. Life is
often good, maybe too good?
Questioning this pulse rate of our
times expands our awareness of what is happening, what has happened. We are not
the first people or generation to think upon these matters. Others did so long
before us. Just knowing that is comforting.
Here’s an item spotted on the
Internet recently:
“A Battle
One is evil. It is anger,
jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego.
The other is good. It is joy,
peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth.
The
wolf that wins? The one you feed.”
~Cherokee
Proverb
Opposites. The struggle is not with
them. Rather it is which one will we feed? That is a choice we make. Often the
choice is not informed; we choose badly because we have not understood clearly
enough what is involved.
This is a valuable life lesson. It
lies at the root of many of our human problems. Awareness and discipline are
the tools that will help each of us make the right choices. May you have that
awareness building in you now. May you
curry that awareness with discipline so it is ready to serve you when needed.
With that as prologue I have faith
you will know which wolf to feed. Your life depends on it!
September 19, 2012
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