I wish to be me

01 October 2019

How fast can life become? How much can we do in the corporeal amount of time we have. There are only 24 hours in the day, but we’re trying to fit 26 hours into it. If we could watch a movie of our average day we’d probably be amazed at all the things we try to do.

And then there is the exact opposite. Some of us spend our lives watching others doing and achieving, and from these images we build such high expectations of our own life, and then sit around feeling utterly powerless in our attempts to meet these expectations. That powerlessness becomes hopelessness and hopelessness becomes depression. If we can just see this process and release these expectations. If we can at least be detached from any expectations, we will get back some of our inner power and self motivation.

It helps to stop watching others and their lifestyles, especially in the media, and then comparing yourself to them. It helps to eliminate all but one ‘I wish’ from your mind. There is only one valid and useful ‘I wish’ and it is simply “I wish to be me”. For that is all you can ever be. It is all you can ever have. It is all that you are. And when you know it, you will be free of all expectation and desire, and able to enter the most relaxed state of being, at will.

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martin
martin
7 years ago

This thought for the day is very appropriate to me at this stage of my life. I am not jealous of others who have more possessions than me or wish I had what others have. I had a mental break down in April and as a result my marriage of twenty two years to my beautiful wife has collapsed. We are determined to remain friends and now find it easier to talk to each other. We are being supportive to each other as much as we can. We are lucky we have a good net work of friends who are… Read more »

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