there are many ways to make a dent in the universe (+ other things we have to remember)
We have to remember that there are many ways to put a dent in the universe.
We have to remember that for all our attempts to plan, predict and control things, life has a way of slipping out beneath our hands. We live and work against a backdrop of mystery.
We have to remember that everything connects.
We have to remember that our actions have a way of rippling out along the invisible lines that connect us: our friends and our friends’ friends and our friends’ friends’ friends. We influence each other in ways we don’t realize.
You have more reach than you think.
We have to remember that the influence you radiate out into the world isn’t measured by how famous you are or the wealth you accumulate. People become icons because they embody some aspect of the zeitgeist; their very identity tells a story that the rest of us need to hear, that eases some anxiety inside us. Some people have a flair for this. It’s their gift.
That doesn’t mean your own story isn’t worth telling. You have different gifts.
Your story is the quest for your own deepest nature: the discovery and the expression of your gifts, and how they cross with the call of the times.
We have to remember that failure is a part of all great stories. In order to overcome something, you have to have something to overcome. The meaning is in the struggle: how it forces you to change and deepen and grow in the ashes. The old self must die, so the new self can rise and turn pain into power, wounds into light.
We have to remember that however we devalue ourselves, or blow ourselves up into grandiose images, destiny has a way of right-sizing you. Embracing this version of self – not too big and not too small – opens the way into a full life.
We have to remember how the small becomes large. Through studying the particular — learning it down to the finest detail — you access the universal. When you master the small, you make room for the world. click to tweet
We have to remember that the universe keeps secrets much bigger than you are. You find your work, and do your work, and let go of the fruits of your labor. The universe knows what to do with them.
You move on, turn the page, begin again.
