In context

Too often we limit our possibilities by confining their context. Too often we forget how far we have already come, and thus fail to see how far we can possibly go. We endure enormous strife in order to get a few pieces of silver, when we’re already standing atop a mountain of gold. We focus so intently on our problems and limitations. Yet we overlook the fact that those problems and limitations are discernible only because of our very capacity to transcend them.

Every day you face plenty of challenges, obstacles that are very real and very difficult. Yet it would be impossible to even know about these challenges, much less experience them as such, if you were down on their level. The fact is, you are far superior to any challenge you’ll ever face. You are more robust, by orders of magnitude, than any obstacle that will ever confront you. You are the miraculous, living you, alive and effective.

So what do you do with all this? How do you live up to the possibilities that permeate your very being? That is a question that has an infinite number of answers. But for you, right now at this moment, there is a very specific and compelling answer. You know what that answer is. Look past the troubles of this day. Look past the trivial concerns. Look past your immediate frustrations, annoyances, obsessions and distractions, past the pains, the pleasures and the discomforts. Reach inside and ask yourself why you care about these things anyway. Connect to the part of you that is fundamentally essential to the real, living person you are.