Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
“Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell”
It Often Happens
The lifeblood of the heart flows from season to season, sometimes changing external circumstances in the process, sometimes changing only the inner landscape of hopes, wishes, and dreams in order to conform to the process of inner growth. Where one is already embarked upon a conscious spiritual path, these changes will happen with greater awareness, for they are part of the richness of having an inner life that has acquired depth. At the same time, feelings involved in letting go will also be felt more deeply, for in the presence of greater inner clarity, all that exists as emotion becomes more fully revealed.
Often, a process that is explicit which allows one to formally take leave of something can be helpful so that the heart feels a sense of closure and can know that everything that is possible to feel in the present has been felt, and what has needed to be said has been said. Where this is not possible due to circumstance, taking leave in one's mind and heart with a sense of prayerfulness and gratitude for what has been will serve equally well, especially when God's love is called upon to assist with the process.
For this reason, detaching from what has been is rarely as simple as it appears or as one might think it ought to be. The part of the self that has lived and grown in the company of a particular person or persons or situation exists in a timeless way. For love itself is timeless, and so at the moment of departure,regardless of who they are, all that has been is still real to the heart, even if it does not exist as a present desire to remain for others.
It often happens in the course of a life, and especially when inner movement causes the heart to seek new horizons or relationships in order to further its own growth, that the past must be let go of. Sometimes, this involves a physical change of being of circumstance and a physical separation from what one has and who has and always will love. Sometimes the separation is only inner. However it occurs, what is needed in order that forward movement take place, is a saying goodbye to what has been so that a chapter in life can be closed out and a new one begun.
I didn't fully understand the effects of the past on the present. Instead, for years, the past appeared in my mind's eye like faded black and white photographs, in which no one, especially me, seemed to be fully alive.
I never wanted to different, I just wanted to be me.
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. Because once I chose hope, I realized anything was possible.
~ D. Smith
I was once told "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." ~ Thank you.
So much truth to that
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All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
