Silence

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

I fell in love with this quote, it really struck a cord in my own life. I like the silence in myself, it provokes me to understand myself more deeply, and to honestly look at all of me, not just the flaws that I have, but the good things within myself that I find really hard to acknowledge. For some sick reason it is so much easier for me to see the bad within myself than any good at all. But I suppose that is all due to the way I was raised and tortured as a child. So now I just carry on the tradition with myself.

I don't believe that there are coincidences, I do believe that the Universe is not random, but brings you to where you need to be at the time that you need to be there. It is truly up to you to make the hard decisions to open your arms and accept what the Universe is bringing your way, or you can close yourself off and lose the blessings of what could have been and should have been for you!

I was closed off for many long hard years, I was stubborn in my thinking, not willing to deviate from what I thought would be the way to live my life, to raise my children, to cope within a bad marriage...when I almost died from the weight of the most unrealistic thought processes and demands on myself, I chose to go another direction. I chose to open my arms to the Universe, and truly take a leap of faith, that when I started to make the changes in my life that there would be a path for my feet to fall on. It was there...I was TERRIFIED, I almost did not take complete the steps to my happiness, I was terrified to "do" happiness...I thought that yes, maybe I would die if I was indeed happy.

I am glad to see that four years out of it, I am still alive! that I am "doing" happy...and my arms are still wide open!

Comments

[carolyn]

You are a real inspiration. :)