The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
DR. WAYNE DYER
If you find yourself in a storm, and the overwhelming nature of things are coming at you with everything that they can bring, you must realize that you are not alone.
So many of us have weathered storms of varying ferocity. They stem from all sorts of reasons, assault us with countless obstacles of magnitude. They can come out of nowhere and remove all security, all perspective, all hope….
And that is how and when you are given a chance to learn what you are truly made of. That is your opportunity to dig deep within and look for the clues, search for the answers, seek the guidance of those who have walked those paths before you.
In those dark chapters, you awaken to the difference between those who talk to you in their free time, and those who free their time to talk to you. Learning the difference between these two is of the utmost importance.
Usually, the best starting point is gratitude. In the course of finding your reasons to feel grateful, you are able to concentrate on the variables in your world that are positive. You are able to leverage your mindset to appreciate the myriad variables in your world that have given you cause to find appreciation and focus on them for all of the strength they may bring.
Then you must always end every night with a positive thought. No matter how hard the day may have been, there is always a reason to be grateful. Let tomorrow start with a fresh start.
In studying the people in history whom I have come to admire, it was obvious to me that each and every one of them has weathered storms of significant magnitude. Did these storms make these people whom they were? I do not think so. Their reaction to those storms made them into the people whom I respect and study. In watching their reactions to those experiences and learning from each of them how and what they did to overcome their obstacles, I have found a wealth of information to help me traverse my own chasms of frustration, disappointment, pain, fear and depression.
To Dr. Dyer’s point, it is truly the metamorphosis that each of these people went through that helped to shape the magnificent human beings whom they evolved into. We cannot say whether or not they would have become that person, regardless, but we can say with certainty that they most certainly did overcome those variables in the course of their rise to greatness.
The choice is always ours. We either succumb and cave to the pressures that work daily to overtake us, or we rise above all of them to evolve into whom we are destined to become. It really is that simple.
Happy Tuesday!
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