Intention and Thoughts
How many times have you felt #rejection, #denial, #criticism, #abandonment, #failure, or #disappointment? There is a theory, that everything happens for your greater good. For each negative thing that happens to you, it is a #lesson. It is preparing you for your #destiny. Imagine if you were a cook and you started cooking at five. You will make a lot of #mistakes and some things will not taste good. Maybe someone will tell you, maybe you should not strive to be a cook. It takes #failure to create #success. Think of the leaders of industry and their failures. My favorite example is #SteveJobs. How many times did he fail? How many times did he sleep on someone's couch? And without those trials, he would not have succeed in the masterful way he has! #Jay-Z said once when people tell what you cannot do, they are projecting their #insecurities on you. Every part of our lives including pain, joy, fears, happiness, and everything else (good and bad) to bring you to where you are supposed to be. If you do not forgive and love you, you will struggle to accomplish what you were put here for. A word about #forgiveness. Forgiveness is for you. If you do not forgive yourself, you will remain stuck. If you do not forgive others, you are drinking poison and expecting the person who has hurt you to die. So I leave you with #Desiderata!
#Desiderata
GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
By Max Ehrmann ? 1927