Meditation for today

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Today's Meditation:

 

I can't begin to count how many times I've avoided certain things

because I was afraid of the pain. I spent many years being lonely

not because of who I was, but because of what I feared--the pain of

rejection or neglect. I've missed out on many opportunities because

I simply wasn't willing to take risks that might have caused me more

pain than I thought I could handle.

 

Nowadays, though, I often thrive on risk. I find that life is much

more dynamic and interesting if I focus on what I can do--even if it

seems I can't--rather than on the limitations that seem to face me.

Part of this has come about because, like Diana, I've realized that

all pain is temporary and that whenever I do experience pain at

whatever level, I come out of it being stronger, and knowing myself a

bit better than I did before.

 

The unknown is more frightening than the known. It holds mystery and

potential hazards, but I believe the hazards are there when we put

them there. The unknown also holds many, many treasures that we

never can discover if we don't explore there.

 

We simply cannot reach new levels if we continue to do the same

things each day. Many people feel the frustration of

having " plateaued, " but their frustration can be dealt with only by

finding acceptable risks to move onward and outward, and then taking

those risks. That's how we grow in life, and once we acknowledge

that pain isn't necessarily the awful thing we've grown up to believe

it is, then we can take more and more risks and grow more as people.

 

Questions to consider:

Why do we tend to avoid pain, or things that may be painful?

 

What does pain indicate to us? What's it trying to tell us?

 

How many extremely easy things have been very valuable to you?

 

 

 

“Fortunately

art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a

spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the

flesh.”

-Allen Ginsberg

 

 

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