you've got more of a choice than you think
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you've got more of a choice than you think
The thing is, the only way to become a secure person is by making real peace with insecurity - because to develop real security, you must learn to sit with insecurity through the discomfort, without letting it be your driving force. Security is not the absence of any insecurity but rather the real acceptance of its presence. Just as being good neve... See more
you've got more of a choice than you think
Why so ready to identify with a trait we say we don’t want to embody?…
There is this deep-rooted fear that not taking a risk is the safe option because you won’t lose. But if you’ve got nothing to lose, then what is there to gain? The same can be said of feelings: how will I know what I need to work on to better myself if I’m not sitting in the discomfort and moving through the bad? What do we gain by labelling ourselves negatively? “I’m a self-sabotager”, I’m chronically single” doesn’t the label become the excuse to not get better?
…because it’s more comfortable to do that, than to deal with the great strain and effort and discipline that it takes to overcome it.
"I have put here all the things I have wanted to write all my life. This is 'the book'... Having done this, I can do anything I want."
In East of Eden, the characters deeply question and ponder over the meaning of the word “timshel”, and finally understand it to translate most accurately as “you may”. This, in the context of the story, is an importa... See more
you've got more of a choice than you think
The idea of “you may” connects or reminds me of Pablo Coelho’s The Alchemist and “maktub”, in the sense that you can choose what kind of person you want to be, and how to act, and if you have faith in the divine, what is written for you will be delivered to you as you ask of it. Action, accountability and faith connection.