Saturday, March 12, 2011

More Optimism!

Maybe this is serendipity, maybe not, but I just found this in a journal from  April 18, 2009. 

Optimism is when your heart breaks but you still smile again.  Optimism is when you've done awful things but you still believe in forgiveness and you are able to forgive.  (On an everyday ongoing basis you face the reality and harshness and yet still love.)

Hate is when your heart breaks and you decide not to smile again, or to forgive yourself for having a broken heart.

We oftentimes break our own hearts by not being heros to ourselves.  When we do ugly and depraved things, then we disappoint ourselves.

Some of us face our fears and learn to understand weakness and forgive it in others.

Some of us face our fears and learn to understand weakness and exploit it in others.

Some of us hide from our fears and abhor the weakness we see in others, pretending to be more; stronger and better.

Some of us drown in our fears on a day to day basis, barely surviving, believing that at any moment the fear could take over and sweep us away.

Be your own true Hero.  Bravely accept your weakness, and forgive it.  Courageously acknowledge your glorious strength, and be grateful.  If you would save your life, surrender to the inevitablity of humanity.  Become intimate with fear, but never allow fear to take the lead. The paradox is that true power comes to those who truly surrender to the whole mess, both good and bad.

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