To Thine Own Self
Someone gave me a bit of advice, and I'm doing
my best to get my head wrapped around it, trying to understand and comprehend
and translate it into my own life. What does it mean to "follow your
own heart"?
Lisa
Lisa, Dante's "Divine Comedy" opens with the author
saying, "Midway in the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark
wood, for the straightforward path had been lost." That is how many
people feel. It is as if they are searching for an answer when they
don't know the question.
In your quiet moments, with no concern for anyone but yourself, what
are your dreams? Your desires? What are your hobbies? Your interests?
What did you like to do when you were young? If someone gave you a lot
of money, what would you do? Often what you would do doesn't take money,
but if you had money, you would feel the freedom--the unburdening--to
do it.
Most of us have a talent for complicating the obvious. The amoeba,
a one cell organism, has a lesson for us all. It moves toward and embraces
what it authentically needs, and it moves away from the uncongenial.
That is all we need to do in life, and it applies to everything--people,
jobs, leisure activities, and studies.
This method is extremely simple. It is so simple people don't realize
how powerful it is. In the course of time, it can create the kind of
life we want. Is it sometimes wasteful? Yes, sometimes we follow false
trails. Will we sometimes feel our life is stalled? Yes, but at a deeper
level we are moving forward.
People who follow this simple technique, in time, feel as if their
lives were guided by an unseen hand. They gain a sense of destiny. What
once seemed like random events, they know occurred for a purpose. They
end up living a life which fulfills them.
Wayne & Tamara
Authors and columnists Wayne
and Tamara Mitchell can be reached at www.WayneAndTamara.com.
Send letters to: Direct Answers, PO Box 964, Springfield,
MO 65801 or email: DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.com.
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