You Need to Begin Where You Are and Where You Are is Holy Ground

 

Photo by Katerina Radvanska

You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation.

~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Discontent may motivate us to change, but it cannot help us to change. Discontent breeds more discontent because where you focus shall be your experience.

But it’s important to acknowledge where you are right now. If you work to manifest something that is beyond your belief, it’s not likely to happen. It’s important to have a vision of where you want to go, but then you need only focus on the next step and that step needs to feel possible. Often, if you remain open and listen for what comes next, you’ll be presented with an idea that is believable or action that is doable. If we rush to act before we are inspired, those actions may not have the power of your belief behind them.

What’s even more important is to live in gratitude and appreciate your life right now even if it’s imperfect as mentioned in the quote above. Just as discontent breeds more discontent, gratitude breeds more gratitude or as Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money says, “What you appreciate, appreciates.”

Wherever you happen to be right now in your life, I want you to know that you walk on holy ground. Gratitude is an act that acknowledges this fact. When we acknowledge that our life and everything is holy, miracles occur. Our minds are transformed and we are moved to reverence. And it is in this state we create true change.