Daily Meditation: Friday, January 19, 1996

The most discouraging fact about human beings is that they …

01/19/1996

The most discouraging fact about human beings is that they accept the idea of a life of limitations. They consider weakness, sickness and unhappiness to be normal, because they cannot imagine that life could be otherwise. Of course we can never escape certain restrictions imposed on us by nature, but we can step back from these limitations and refuse to consider ourselves forever prisoners or victims. We can try to prolong our good states and good conditions, or delay the advent of negative situations, but in order to do so we must at least believe this is possible. Unfortunately, when you observe human beings you notice that they behave as if they were hypnotized, as if someone had drawn a line in front of them and forbidden them to cross it. And they truly believe they cannot cross it, that this restriction is the normal human state of affairs! But no! They do not know themselves; they are ignorant of all they possess – all the treasures and powers God has given them – so they stay bogged down in the same old place. So, from now on, human beings must push these limitations away so they may feel and touch the riches within them.