The achievement
of goals is important. But the real juice of life, whether
it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much
in the products of our efforts as in the process of living
itself, in how it feels to be alive.
The essence of boredom
is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction
lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness
in subtle variations on familiar themes.
Be aware of the
way homeostasis works. Realize that when the alarm bells
start ringing, it doesn't necessarily mean you're sick or
crazy or lazy or that you've made a bad decision in embarking
on the journey of mastery. In fact, you might take these
signals as an indication that your life is definitely changing--just
what you've wanted.
"I don't want
to be saved, I want to be spent." -- Fritz Perls
When you're climbing
a mountain, be aware that the peak is ahead, but don't keep
looking up at it. Keep your eyes on the path.
Ultimately, nothing
in this life is "commonplace," nothing is "in
between." The threads that join your every act, your
every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually
merge.
We will wonder why,
given youth and health and broad reaches of time, we learned
so little loved so little, risked so little; how so much
time could have drained so immemorially down the sink of
routine and distraction. Yet the confines of a single moment
can hold all the dimensions and potentialities of time,
and that the crucial decisions and opportunities are always
before us, no less now than in the past, no less in the
future than now.
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