I notice I run from discomfort, negative remarks and comments, I run from challenging someones opinion, if it is different from mine. I have heretofore called that behavior allowing them to think that way, who am I to say...
But rather than make me stronger, that has made me weaker. There is a big difference in running away from negativity, and just being with it. Not agreeing with or disagreeing with, but just being there.
There is something infinitely courageous and strengthening about allowing. It develops an inner strength, that becomes unshakable and as Viktor Frankel says " A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth -- that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss."
If you don't know, Viktor Frankel spent WWII in a Nazi Concentration camp, was beaten, starved and robbed. For him to discover that people can take every freedom from you except your thoughts, one has to admit he walked his talk.
So, the real possibility becomes "if he can, I can'.
Here is to love and happiness, circumstances be dammed!
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