it seems you can have the ability...the talent...the knowledge....to reach a goal...but if you don't have hope...
you won't get there...
and hope....is made of love....
and conversely..... hopelessness....lacks love....
even in the darkest of situations...having the ability to reach hope....to be optimistic...to turn perceptions around and find that.....there is always light....
this is one of the most powerful things...you can do.
and it takes practice....to rewire your brain to think in a more positive and hopeful way.....
the more you do it...
the more you can do it....easier and easier.... but it is a decision you have to make....be the victor or be the victim.
and....positive thinking...
it is contagious.
I was reading Victor Frankl quotes....and came upon this.....as he spoke of his time walking through a cold icy night....a long walk from a hard work day...back to the concentration camps...
"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 believe 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, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when Man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his stufferings in the right way- an honorable way- in such a position Man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, " The Angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory." ....
love.
and hope.
optimism....
faith....
having all these....and using them.....powerful tools....tools that will take you places....unbelievable places.
peace...and love....and hope.....
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