Prodding people to personal growth. Now there is a thankless task!...and often as
not a hopeless task.
Yet the growth happens, by confluence of pain and shock and
disruption, somehow the personal growth happens.
We survive. We go on,
blindly of course. And somehow personal
growth happens.
Not for everyone, not smoothly, not predictably, and
certainly not voluntarily.
How simple it should be!
Simply be open to wisdom, seek and absorb all the wisdom you can,
objectively weigh conflicting claims, and ferret out the wheat from the chaff.
Expose one’s self to challenges and new circumstances. Invite criticism. Learn at every opportunity. Think critically. Personal growth should be so easy!
Keep an open mind.
Learn incessantly. Read
voraciously. Listen intently. Judge not.
Take all that compendium of knowledge to heart, making room for it by shedding prejudice and bias, and then actively and compassionately put into action that knowledge that now grows into wisdom.
Take all that compendium of knowledge to heart, making room for it by shedding prejudice and bias, and then actively and compassionately put into action that knowledge that now grows into wisdom.
How simple personal growth should be.
It stands before each of us, inviting us to the dance, our
human potential there for the taking.
But personal growth requires change, and change is a form of
death of our existing self.
We flee from the threat of personal growth because of the
fear that something of us will have to die.
That is why Yeshu (Jesus) said we must die to our present
small self and be born again.
Personal growth occurs like a snake shedding its skin or a
hermit crab moving to a new shell. We
have to shed something of the shell of our identity in order to grow into our
Self.
It is a recurring process, this personal growth. It is a death process. It is a birth process. It is the life process. It is an eternal process.
Please pass it on.
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