If you insist on....

....continually looking over your shoulder, you will see whatever is threatening to sneak up on you from behind. You won't, though, be alert to any danger that lies ahead. We live in a world full of stable doors that have all been locked, long after their various horses have bolted. Meanwhile, new difficulties, as yet unlegislated for, wait to arise.

As with problems, so with opportunities. Why plough the same old tired furrow, when a new one can be dug? Go exploring.

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

What beats in the....

....very essence of your heart? When we strip away all pomp and pretence, all attitude and expectation, all pride, fear and foolishness, what do we find? Who do we discover? Are you a mortal or a deity? Are you part of the infinite and the eternal? Or are you trivial and temporal?

And if, as in truth you must be, you are some glorious combination of both, is it not only right and fair to at least acknowledge the existence of the higher spirit that dwells in your soul? It knows what you need. Let it advise you.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.  

(Kahlil Gibran)

For this you have to be....

....totally focused.  Before you is a crystal ball. Gaze intently into it. You should notice that there are two images in the reflection. They conflict and contrast. One is almost a 'negative' of the other. So which is the true picture? Which should you trust? 

The answer, of course, is that you are seeing a point of choice in the distance. Go one way, and things will go well. Go another and they might not be quite so satisfactory. And which choice should you make? The one that leads away from fear and towards hope. 

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.  (Ben Stein)

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Quite a few years ago....

....there was a famous guy called Horace.  A poet, by all accounts; and so famous that we don't need his surname to know who we're referring to.  (And there, any similarity to Kylie begins and ends!)  He's reputed to have said - 'A good scare is worth more than good advice.'  He also coined the phrase, 'Carpe diem' or, 'seize the day'. Properly translated it means, 'pluck the day.' Presumably, rather like a harp. Not bad advice, at all.

What's to be scared of?  Tune in to any opportunity.

Don't simply let in everyone that passes by. Don't simply pass by everyone that lets you in.

Be selective....

It can be a tough call....

....but we should never feel afraid of or horrified by any event or experience that has happened in our past. We can, of course, look back with regret, even disbelief. But we must find some way to move on in a good spirit, for our own sake. We need the ability to let go far more than we need to hang on to anything. 

Nothing lasts forever.  We all know that.  Even those who resist change with a determination that can often astound, know that.  It may well be that current circumstances, for some, are the fledgling signs that you are being blessed with a chance to free yourself, finally, from something that has been all too hard to shake off.   Would you not be in for major gains, if this were so?  

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.     (Mark Twain)