This week’s been a quiet one… and it’s seen me making notes on books I read a long while back.
Another quote that really got me interested was:
It’s what your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.
When you get too greedy, when you want to much, when your achievement is too great, you get discouraged. The experience – the current moment – is what needs to be focussed upon. Nothing more. Nothing less. That’s why – way back when – I wrote a post about ‘One Day At A Time.’ That’s what it’s about. It’s about today, not tomorrow or next week. It’s about the journey – feeling every moment… realizing the pressure, the effort, the goals, the achievement, and never forgetting that moment. Because if we forget, we think we can conquer the world – we think that the highlight of this particular moment will always be our highlight – yet forgetting all the strife and struggle that went into getting at that moment.
What I’m looking forward to is the ability to maintain as less that getting to this position in the first place. Maintenance is easier than struggle – no matter which way you look at it.