“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” ~Helen Keller
Life is consistently more rewarding for me when I focus on mastering the hardships life brings my way rather than wishing those hardships didn’t exist and feeling sorry for myself that they do.
What are you doing right now to master the hardships life has brought your way?
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“It’s hard to grow beyond something if you won’t let go of it.” ~James Clear
Growth is a continual process of letting go of where we are and what we’ve known in order to live into something more.
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“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.” ~Mark Buchanan
When I find myself needing healing, my innate tendency is to keep myself busy by working harder and harder. Inevitably, that approach ultimately backfires. All my work and busyness keep me away from the things that bring me most alive and slow my healing. It’s only when I allow myself to rest and nurture those things that bring to life that I move toward actual healing.
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“In real time, healing feels too slow to count as legitimate growth.” ~Katherine Morgan Schafler
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“Let me fall if I must. The one I will become will catch me.” ~Baal Shem Tov
Sometimes the very act of falling is what empowers us to grow into the person we are becoming who will catch us from the fall.
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