What is within you, is what others see! Chapter 39 Learning How To Live A Quality Life

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

This citation is the gist of what I am experiencing again and again.

Since the beginning of this journey, there are small, small changes that did take place but I didn’t know how to explain them. But this quote is the perfect explanation for them.

1) The most visible change is the way people look at my dressing style. I didn’t even change any of my clothes when this change started. I wore them in the same way too. But now others are able to appreciate the colour combination, the dress patterns. What I did think was about the beautiful colour combinations and patterns and just knew it was actually a really good one. And that is what people saw…

2) I am mastering to control my thoughts that tend to think what others are thinking about me. And replace them, if need be, with only the good-sense possibilities. This kind of thinking gave me such freedom to express my thoughts effortlessly wherever and whoever I am conversing with. It made me respect my ideas, in fact, help me give form to these ideas and go further than the ideas stage. It gave me confidence and strength to take action steps that are very daring. It made get closer to the true self that ‘I am’. And the people around me only see what I think about!

3) The thinking of who I am in my present daily routine at home – When I only kept thinking of the times, I completed my laundry work and cleaned my bedroom, the organized manner of the work I did (the things that are accomplished)…the better and better my efficiency kept on increasing. So, it is not just the world around but even my conscious self experienced this change around, the results of my thinking.

You & your goal

You are an infinite being.

To bring a finite understanding of this line, I compared it with setting goals and achieving them, in these terms.

We set a goal and achieve that goal. Next, we set a higher goal and go for it. And since we keep on thinking of growth, we keep on setting higher goals. And, there is no end for growth, thereby making it (growth) infinite.

If we can keep growing to infinite levels of growth, it implies we have infinite potential to achieve that equivalent of infinity exhibited by growth.

And there is this line –

Your goal is something you choose that is worthy of you!

from teachings of Earl Nightingale

Have a wholesome New Year!