Do You Choose Easy or Difficult?
November 11th, 2009
Most of the time, in most cases, most people choose easy.
It’s easy to blame things on circumstances that are outside of our control.
It’s easy to say “it’s not my fault”.
It’s easy to play the victim.
Even when it’s not really true.
It’s difficult to step up to the mark.
It’s difficult to take responsibility.
It’s difficult to rise to the challenge of sorting things out yourself.
Sometimes things are outside of our control. Sometimes they aren’t. But either way you are the one who decides what you do from here on.
Accept this responsibility.
Then do something about it.
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SusanJ
You know… This may sound odd. But the truth is: Spirituality is difficult.
Though, it really makes sense. Anything so wondrous and worthwhile as becoming a more enlightened person is going to demand tremendous effort. The rewards, though, are more than worth it.
I disagree bamboo, a person doesn’t become more enlightened or more sprititual they simply become aware and realize they are already that which they are trying to obtain. Realization of what a person is, is not difficult. The challenge lays with acknowledging the beliefs that you may have held for so long are inaccurate and allowing them to collapse.
Great post by the way
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Very interesting comments guys, I thought I’d add a quote from Kahlil Gibran’s wonderful little book ‘The Prophet’:
“And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.”
I think that in some ways Spirituality is the most obvious and natural thing in the world, but realising this and really living in the light of this realisation is probably the most difficult thing in the world.
For if we are all part of this great big ‘Oneness’ then every time we hurt another we hurt ourselves. Every time we see someone suffering, we realise that person is as close to us as our friends and family. Every time we hear of murder, war, famine… our heart breaks. What can we do?
In my humble opinion Mahatma Gandhi wasn’t being poetic when he said:
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement, properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action”.
Short and sweet. Interesting that a short post likes this leaves me wanting more and also thinking more about the examples. Nice work Julian:) Keep up the fab writing.
so true, yet so simple…
And sometimes you might believe something is easy and it really isn’t
Straight to the point, and thought-provoking. It is true that the things that will help us learn and grow the most are not the easier choices. We need to have courage and choose them anyway!
I resonate with this post. Many times the hard things we have to do are actually lessons we need to learn for our own personal development. I like the straight to the point structure in this post.
Abundance to you,
Baker