The Motivational Café
Life Transformation Through Mind Renewal
Live Everything
by Steve Brunkhorst
Live Everything
I want to beg you, as much as I can,
to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not seek the answers, which cannot
be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it, live along
some distant day into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Every moment is priceless, and each one belongs to us to use as we choose.
Although we cannot achieve everything we want in one day, there is enough time today to begin with what we have. Today, we can make a commitment to paint our personal life masterpieces--one brush stroke at a time.
We were meant to enjoy life, to live completely, and to experience all the exciting gifts that God has offered to us. In each moment, we move toward or away from any goal through our choices and actions. To live deliberately, we must get out of auto-pilot mode and become conscious of our choices.
When we live consciously, we live deliberately. We use our minds as the magnificent tools that God designed; we make up our minds to act in constructive and loving ways.
In auto-pilot, or ego mode, the mind is no longer our tool--the mind uses us instead of us using it. It "makes us up", manipulating us to react in hurtful ways to situations and events that are different from what we imagined as ideal. Observe the mind doing this, and it stops; the auto-pilot mind does not like our conscious presence to spy on it.
Inside most people, there are treasures and talents that they have not discovered. When we rush through the day without observing our thoughts with the eyes of the heart, we will overlook those treasures.
As Alan Cohen insightfully points out in the article below, no one else can live our lives for us. The self- awareness that only human beings have, is within us.
Each person has the sole responsibility to live in ways that foster soul growth, fulfillment, and joy.
Each one of us will have a unique idea of what living deliberately means. For me, it involves these five actions:
1. Choose what is essential: my purpose, joy, and legacy.
2. Express gratitude for experiencing the essential.
3. Clean away what is not essential.
4. Take corrective actions when needed.
5. Continue to see what is essential, and purposely repeat these actions each day.
Consider this question: What does living deliberately mean to you?
By using our minds and our time on purpose, expressing gratitude for all we have, and sharing some of our time with those we care about, we can experience the joy of a deliberate life.
Have a fantastic week! :-)
Steve Brunkhorst
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