Except for occasional flooding, the mightiest river keeps to its beds. It flows where it finds openings between cliffs and rocks. If the river is dammed, if the cliff walls are moved, if the boulders are shifted, it will flow a different course. It could even be made to flow backwards if the earth moved far enough.~ from 365 Tao: Daily Meditations, Entry 182 ~
Too often, far too many of us lament when life doesn't flow they way we desire. We feel thwarted by coworkers, friends or the institutions of society. We feel stymied by circumstances and situations. When things really go badly, we chalk it up to an angry god or that fate is against us.
But hurdles are thrown down in the path of every life. It is what we decide to do when faced with such hurdles that is the measure of each of us. If we continually choose to allow the hurdles to impede our progress, then what is the true impediment...the hurdle or ourselves?
But hurdles are thrown down in the path of every life. It is what we decide to do when faced with such hurdles that is the measure of each of us. If we continually choose to allow the hurdles to impede our progress, then what is the true impediment...the hurdle or ourselves?
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