Lesson 14: every journey starts by a step
The journey you started at the beginning of this course goes on. It will continue all along your life, as a river you will face obstacles, peaceful periods, but always, like water, you will surpass them or detour them.
LOOKING FOR RETURN
You are the one who one day perceived a journey by car as a prize and today as a punishment. Can you see it?. the only thing I want to show you is the stupidity of thinking «this is the last time» and this is the argument which yesterday made you sad.And it is a false argument as I will show you.
EVENTS do not DETERMINE OUR ANIMIC SITUATION BUT OUR PERCEPTION OF THEM.
Each day I like better to return: to see, to taste, to listen, to read- because as I am in a different tract, everything is new for me, is different but at the same time is similar, is like meeting again an old friend…a RETURN IS ALWAYS A NEW LOOK. You are not anymore the one you were yesterday and neither I am. If you are well aware when returning to the same place will look different and the light and your way to look at it…
Texts
Sculptor or clay
- You are not a thing. But the maker of things. You have to Ask yourself «Whom am I?».
You are the person that you dream of and in someway you make come true.
You are pure action: someone that is searching to be somebody in particular. And that searching transforms you.
The Spanish philosopher Julián Marías in his book «Mapa del Mundo Personal» says: «insecurity is the essential condition of human life. Life, as it is not done, as it depends on different circunstances, in someway unexpected, requires an effort of imagination and afterwards of decision…The human person fulfils between possibilities and difficulties, essays and risks, with a core -always looking to the future- that tries to confirm itself among temptations and fallings.»
Exercises
¡Imagine, imagine!
- Do not limit yourself, give you 30 minute to dream over 10 possible future situations
- Write them down in no more than ten lines and less than 20.
You have to be realistic and at the same time a dreamer. Believe that they will be possible. In order to achieve it, you should clear your mind of pessimism or any kind of negative thoughts.
- As a third step you should establish a fix term but at the same time generous enough, to make them come true (it is convenient to be realistic and positive when fixing terms in order that they should not be impossible and therefore frustrating.
Maximum time: 30 minutes
CEACH DAY OF THIS WEEK , WHEN WAKING UP, IMAGINE A POSSITIVE ACTION YOU WISH. SEE YOU IN LESSON 15.