There is no advantage, no profit and certainly no growth when I deceive myself merely to escape the consequences of my own mistakes. When I realize this, I know I'll be making progress.
"We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us," wrote Thomas Merton in No Man Is an Island. "But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it." Am I true to myself?
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True.
If I do not look at that big bad thing as a lesson instead of an event that causes me pain,anger or fear than back to square one.
It starts with number one.
"There is no advantage, no profit and certainly no growth when I deceive myself merely to escape the consequences of my own mistakes. When I realize this, I know I'll be making progress."
Faaaaaaabulous! And as Barb shared, which a agree...it's all about the lessons we learned. And if learned something, it's no mistake. It's a success!
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