The Power of Attitude

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person isunique. We cannot become someone else. The important thingis that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom. Envying another’s beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens. Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse. Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of their determination fades with time. The important thing is not that your resolve never wavers, but that you don’t get down on yourself when it does and throw in the towel. Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart,and our hope, appreciation and joygradually wane. “Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring.” The place whereyou are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do. If you always have a shallow perspective and pay attention onlyto trivial things, you are sure to get bogged down in all kinds of petty worries and concerns, and not be able to move forward. Even relatively minor hurdles or problems will seem insurmountable. But if you look at life from a broad viewpoint, you naturally spot the way to solve anyproblem you may confront