Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
WAYNE W. DYER
Wouldn’t it be so much easier if everything in the world worked exactly as YOU think it should work?
I know! Right?
Sadly… never gonna happen. Not in your lifetime, nor in anyone’s.
And the sooner we absorb and embrace that reality, the sooner we are likely to find our way into a deeper and considerably more fulfilling life.
Regardless of our frustrations with the circumstances that impede us, exclude us, trample upon us, eventually, through these and other disappointments, we cultivate the best combination of options for our unique set of qualities, circumstances and capabilities. We process the factors that have impeded our progress, and if we are strategic, we make better plans to either overcome the obstacle, or replace the impeded opportunity with one of equal or greater value.
A lot of people bide their time, waiting for the world to change to their demands. And while, at face value this appears futile, in other times it proves to be sound advice. George Bernard Shaw said, “ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt itself to him. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”
I believe the line of distinction stems from being complacent or revolutionary. A revolutionary, such as the aforementioned “unreasonable man,” is going to change something significant and expect that the world would and should see it through the same perspective. By definition, that is the revolutionary approach. Whereas a person who is passive, expecting a different outcome today from that of yesterday, is (in my humble opinion), delusional.
The more I listened to Wayne Dyer, the more I liked him. He was clean on his flaws and issues, but clear on how he discovered a more focused perspective that served him very well going forward in life. I find substantial benefits in listening to a flawed human discuss how and why they have evolved, and what lead them to that catharsis.
Every last one of us is a flawed human. Probably in far more ways than any one of us might imagine. In our flaws come the opportunities to grow, for as Rumi says, “the wound is where the light gets in.”
Peace is a desirable frame of mind, and more achievable by processing life and seeing it for what it is, so that you can accept the limitations of the world we live in.
But personally… I will always be the Unreasonable Man. I will spend every last day on Earth working to make things the way I think they should be. I may never find the ubiquitous peace that Dr. Dyer speaks of… but I do understand and appreciate it.
Happy Wednesday!
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