“When I do not want to do something that I know needs to get
done, that is when I need strength and courage to stay focused and get that
done”.
In a peaceful world, that statement has a great deal of
realism within it. For example, being kind to your enemy, more so when you are
your own enemy. Being kind is knowing when you are about to give in to
destructive behaviour and then stopping yourself.
Each day is an opportunity to understand more about how you
function. Knowing more about the cues you give yourself is important. This
knowledge will give you time to plan and make decisions to act upon. First off
you need to know that this will not always be easy. There will be times when
the actions that need to take place seems to be the most difficult path to
take.
“There is no way I am going to talk to that person. There is
no way I am going to that meeting. There is no way I am going to change my mind
about this”. Each of these are points where the opposite course of action is
often the path that is the path of kindness to yourself. This is where the
popular phrase of “live without fear” is most needed.
In those moments where such statements are made, I do not
want to seem weak so I stand my ground. However, in all reality, I am being
weak by not talking, not doing something and.or not looking at things with
another perspective. If I was being fearless, I would not care about how I am
going to be looked upon by myself or by others.
There was this boy who was shown the truth of life. At the moment he was allowed to see the beauty of life, a great calm was cast around him. This moment had sparked the need to seek peace. As time passed and that moment faded into history, the boy lost his connection with the understanding that was given to him during the moment of great calm. What did stay was the question of how the world would become peaceful.
As years passed and knowledge gained, the boy wandered further from the path he was to take. Money, material, admirations and other things filled the mind in place of the real path. Of course with time, the boy who was now a young adult became lost without even knowing that he was lost. Although he was lost, there were many goals that brought wealth, friendship, excitement and what is seen as the good life. Sadly this was only masking the truth of reality.
Even though the boy who is now a man would appear to have everything, deep within rests the understanding of the boy that was crying out. Underneath all the appearance rests the truth. The man is not at ease, the pain of a lost life burns hot. The pain is great as the man is too ashamed, to much of a coward, too fixated on the perception of how difficult it would be, to get back to what he knows is the path he needs to be on. The man is afraid, tired and ashamed of whohe was, is and the may options of who he can become.
