Worthwhile Journeys
"Greatness is as greatness does". In your understanding, what does it take to be "great" or to accomplish great deeds? What is greatness in the first place? Can only some accomplish great deeds or is greatness there for universal taking?
There is the oft quoted Confucian saying that "every journey begins with a single step". Whilst I fully identify with this simple, ageless wisdom, I suggest the need to appreciate, more significantly, that this "first step" is absolutely never a physical phenomenon. Indeed, nature's wisdom suggests that 'every journey , worthwhile or otherwise, begins with a single thought of dream'.
A deep understanding of this holds within itself a fundamental ingredient for assuring personal or professional greatness. Too many people fail to internalize the implications of this simple reality. Many still allow their lives to be limited by past mishaps, to be paralysed by their fears. Even more tragically, many more allow the fears and experiences of other people around them (disguised as criticism, realism, and the like) to rob them of their birthright to rendevous with greatness.
Not enough individuals actively cultivate a burning desire to unleash the only aspect of life over which they have absolute dominion, the one step that is pivotal in helping them transcend the mediocrity of allotted personal or professional pigeon-holes. Some don't know where to start. Others don't know how to develop empowering dreams. Others yet know not how to drown out the nagging voices (within and without) that drain their creative impulses, that drown out the significance of the wisdom that 'every journey, worthwhile or otherwise, begins with a single thought or dream'.
I once heard it said that 'one of life's greatest tragedies is the stillbirth of good ideas'. Nurture yours.
There is the oft quoted Confucian saying that "every journey begins with a single step". Whilst I fully identify with this simple, ageless wisdom, I suggest the need to appreciate, more significantly, that this "first step" is absolutely never a physical phenomenon. Indeed, nature's wisdom suggests that 'every journey , worthwhile or otherwise, begins with a single thought of dream'.
A deep understanding of this holds within itself a fundamental ingredient for assuring personal or professional greatness. Too many people fail to internalize the implications of this simple reality. Many still allow their lives to be limited by past mishaps, to be paralysed by their fears. Even more tragically, many more allow the fears and experiences of other people around them (disguised as criticism, realism, and the like) to rob them of their birthright to rendevous with greatness.
Not enough individuals actively cultivate a burning desire to unleash the only aspect of life over which they have absolute dominion, the one step that is pivotal in helping them transcend the mediocrity of allotted personal or professional pigeon-holes. Some don't know where to start. Others don't know how to develop empowering dreams. Others yet know not how to drown out the nagging voices (within and without) that drain their creative impulses, that drown out the significance of the wisdom that 'every journey, worthwhile or otherwise, begins with a single thought or dream'.
I once heard it said that 'one of life's greatest tragedies is the stillbirth of good ideas'. Nurture yours.
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