Daily Meditation: Friday, August 12, 2022

Efforts - to face obstacles in the outside world, we must train like athletes

08/12/2022

If you run away from the efforts or tasks imposed by life, you will never develop fully. Some people abandon their family or their job when life becomes too hard. Others flee all responsibility. But it is never a good thing to run away. Fate has placed you in certain circumstances for a reason. You must build up your resistance to the difficulties of the outside world, just like athletes who train to withstand the cold and heat, fatigue, deprivation and hunger; or like sailors who learn to master adverse currents, defy harsh weather, and brave great dangers. It is advisable to be like them, to train yourself to endure and hold on. Of course, if there comes a point where you cannot bear a situation a minute longer, then you must escape from it. But then you must return and face it as soon as possible... and keep doing so until you have grown steadfast and strong.