Thinking. Piecing things together. Making sense of life.
It’s a search not an obsession. A gentle prodding of the
mind to consider various ideas and how they fit with one another, whether there
is a hidden connection that will revolutionize my thinking.
Do you do this sort of thing? What are the thoughts that go through your
mind when mindlessly driving hundreds of miles on a long distance road trip?
When you are sitting in your favorite chair in the evening, relaxed, stomach
full from dinner, no pressures immediately absorbing your attention. A time to
relax. What do you think of in those quiet moments?
Wondering about life is something is a task I’ve never
finished. It’s the nature of things. Stop wondering and you just might be dead!
Came up with three thoughts that seem to make basic sense to
me. See how they affect you:
First:
“Everything you do is based on
the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job,
the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and
only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period. ~Author Unknown
Second:
“Never allow another to take the
hopes from your heart, the dreams from your mind, or the goodness from your
soul.” ~Anthony Douglass Williams
Third:
“When you try to control
everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let
go and just live in the moment.”`~rawforbeauty.com
Take responsibility for your own choices, your own actions.
Circumstances may seem to force adaptations from you, and in many cases that is
true. But basically life is lived by each one of us and we alone are
responsible for how we react and adapt in every moment. Own that thought and
make it an abiding principle in your life. Blame no one else. Adapt, ignore, or
own. Each is ours to do.
Of similar values is not allowing others to take from you
the most valuable elements of life, your life – hopes, dreams and goodness of
soul. Those are uniquely yours. They are your ‘bank’ of good things to use, to
savor, to build upon. No one else can take those from you unless you let them.
Even a prisoner has these within the mind. No jailer or captor can get at
these. He has your freedom of movement. You have freedom of the inner life. It
moves in a much broader space than physical space.
It follows that if we don’t let another person control our
life then we cannot control everything else, either. To realize what’s important, to enjoy it and
sense its fullness, we must let it be what it is. We can do that by resting,
breathing in and out intentionally and sensing the moment. Ponder it. Taste it.
Feel it. Let it be. The sunshine, the warmth, or cold. Snow and ice or green
blades of grass. Birdsong. Fresh air. The view or vista. The components of the
world are all around us. What do we do with them? Do we appreciate them and let
them resonate with all of our senses?
Three guides in life to make it better. To make the best of
whatever comes our way, good bad or pure ugly.
There are other words of wisdom to help us on our journey
through life, but a lot of good begins with these three: take responsibility
for your own choices and actions; do not allow others to strip you of your
inner values; and likewise do not attempt to control other elements of life
that are not yours.
Upon these building blocks much is possible.
March 11, 2014
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