Courage Practice

TODAY'S QUOTE:"We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage."... Sam Keen
If flight is your dream, it is first necessary to spread your wings and take a huge leap of faith into the unknown. It demands belief in self and more courage than most of us possess, or are willing to cultivate. Some spend their whole lives fighting primal urges for freedom of one sort or another, simply because the rut they own holds less terror than unmapped territory. There is less fear, but the trade off for settling on what is... is that you never, ever will get to know what could be... and believe me, that is a bitter pill that never gets fully swallowed.

Soaring is within reach, yet all too few take the trouble to seek their true hearts desire. Fear is not our friend, so why do we so often make it our constant companion? Terror has dug more bottomless pits and buried more good people than I like to even imagine. I know this because I used to reside in one, before I finally got a clue and became more afraid of being forever satisfied with the status-quo than I was of leaping headlong into the unknown. The one good thing about most ruts is that it is possible to return to one formerly abandoned or build another, even though most people who escape never have an urge to begin digging again.

Life is meant to be lived by taking upward steps, one after another toward first one goal... and then the next, so our golden years are not a time of bitter regret. Any fear we face head-on shrinks to nothing, quickly losing any power we gave it by embracing it in the first place. Have the courage to take the first step... and the next one will be much less terrifying. Sure there are times when we will trip up and land on our face, or slip and slide to a lower level, but the stairs remain stationary. No searching for their location is ever necessary, remounting is all that is really required, but do not simply stand there waiting aimlessly for the escalator... lift one foot at a time and climb on. God bless and... think about it... let it ride... then YOU decide!!!