Daily Inspirational Message for March 26, 2014
“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Fear of the future is, simply put, fear of that which is uncertain. When going about our daily lives and encountering new opportunities in our professional, personal, and romantic lives, it can be easy to give into that fear of the unknown and stray from the path the Universe has laid out for us to follow. That fear that restricts us is often based on a past experience we may have had or witnessed that proved difficult or even downright heart-wrenching. When we tune into that fear, we’re replaying that experience in our minds and telling ourselves that what we face now will usher in the same result – or worse. We tell ourselves we simply couldn’t bear to go through that once more. But it’s beneficial to remember that ‘story’ is simply in our imaginations, mired in only a grain of real experience. What we sometimes forget is that the lessons we’ve taken to heart from past experiences serve as divine assurance that it will not be the same at all, and it certainly will not be worse. (by Kai Ravariere – Contributing Kajama Writer)
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Fear of the future is, simply put, fear of that which is uncertain. When going about our daily lives and encountering new opportunities in our professional, personal, and romantic lives, it can be easy to give into that fear of the unknown and stray from the path the Universe has laid out for us to follow. That fear that restricts us is often based on a past experience we may have had or witnessed that proved difficult or even downright heart-wrenching. When we tune into that fear, we’re replaying that experience in our minds and telling ourselves that what we face now will usher in the same result – or worse. We tell ourselves we simply couldn’t bear to go through that once more. But it’s beneficial to remember that ‘story’ is simply in our imaginations, mired in only a grain of real experience. What we sometimes forget is that the lessons we’ve taken to heart from past experiences serve as divine assurance that it will not be the same at all, and it certainly will not be worse. (by Kai Ravariere – Contributing Kajama Writer)