Recently I was in a situation that wasn’t what I wanted, but there wasn’t anything I could do to change it.
Usually I’m the type of person who takes action to change things when I want an outcome, so this presented me with a challenge.
Instead of staying stagnant I stopped asking myself, “How can I change this?”, and started asking myself, “Where’s the grace in this?”
Ask a better question and you get a better answer.
As soon as I started asking the better question I was able to see exactly how this situation was serving me, how I needed to learn to be in the present and not in the future, how I needed to learn to let go of a complete attachment to the outcome.
And I was able to find peace and to grow.
Because I saw the grace in it.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.