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As M. Scott Peck observed in The Road Less Traveled: Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we know that life is difficult—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. If our expectation is that there will be challenge, then challenge does not create frustration.
Two of the most deadly roadblocks to peace are discouragement and pride.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PRINCIPLE-CENTERED PEOPLE
Our two greatest gifts are time and the freedom to choose—the power to direct our efforts in the use of that time. The key is in not “spending” time, but in “investing” it—in people, in empowerment, in meaningful projects and causes. Like any capital resource, if we spend time, it’s gone. We dwindle away our inheritance. If we invest it, we increase our inheritance, and it will redound to the blessing of generations that follow.
