Soar Like Eagle: 06/30/05

Visionary

Our eyes are capable of seeing many things in life.

What is common and familiar,

or what is rare and extraordinary.

Dreaming

Spirit

Dare to Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach for another is to risk involvement.

To expose your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To believe is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in live is to risk nothing.

The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves; they have forteited their freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.

Author Unknown

Do the Thing You Fear

Seldom do we do the thing we fear,
so we seldom discover whether or not our projection
of disaster was accurate or not.

In fact, when we DON'T do the thing we are afraid of, we breathe a sigh of relief as though it actually would have taken place. "That was a close one!" we say, even though we never actually got close to anything but a string of our own negative thoughts...

Peter McWilliams