Heart Searching

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.".... Kahlil Gibran

The measure of sorrow some things inspire is in direct contrast with how much joy they brought into your life. Lost loved ones... family or treasured friends, love gone wrong, dreams shattered... each of these demands agony, at their ending, equal to whatever bliss we felt at the height of their reality.

In a real way the pain validates the pleasure. The higher the cost the more treasured the memory. To be asked to pay the price is in one fashion a negative, yet in another it is purely positive. Feeling it fully can be brutal, yet it comes from a blessing so it is an honorable sort of agony.
I know people who fear the hurt so intensely that they insulate themselves from the need to feel anything. It may keep them safe from hurt, but it separates them from joy too. Insuring that numbness is all you are capable of feeling is a waste of life's possibilities.

Owning a treasure is an awesome responsibility. Keeping it hidden robs you of the pleasure it gives when it is hung in plain view, and makes the world a darker place. If we all kept our lights hidden the earth would quickly become pitch black and desolate.

Safe is not always best, and frozen in fear is not a wise position to choose. Life has so much more for us than we can ever reach by traveling those avenues. Any action that steals our capacity to feel is self-defeating in the extreme. Risk much and gain tons. Risk nothing and that is all you will ever be entitled to receive. And as always.... think about it.... let it ride.... then decide!!!!