How to Fulfill Your Potential, Overcome Obstacles and Soar Like An Eagle On the Currents of Life
How to use your challenges and obstacles as opportunities to develop your personal power and character into the foundations of a great life.
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Top of the Mountain
It is very difficult to fulfill
One’s true potential—
For obstacles grow like thorny vines
To trip you up, and dark holes
Of despair appear out of nowhere
to swallow your best laid intentions.
However, the very difficulty
Of the task is the royal
Road to greatness—
For as you persevere,
As you overcome , as you
Get up from having fallen,
As you choose to believe in yourself
And your worth when no one else does,
Then the foundations of character
Are formed and upon this base
The sweet power of spirit can rise—
Until one day, through hard work and
The grace it attracts, you finally do
Reach the top of the mountain
And manifest all the greatness
Of the destined life and work
For which you were born…
For it is in working through
All that comes against us
That we learn about and activate
The infinite capacities of our
Heart and soul to do great things
For ourselves and the world…
Then, we realize that all that we went through—
The hard, the painful and the scary days
Were all part of the path which led us
To this day when we claim our power
And choose to live and work from now on
From the top of the mountain.
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“Life is a beautiful song.
Open your heart and
Rejoice in its melody.
Once you have attuned to this
Song you will find the
Composer seated in the
Lotus of your heart.”
—Swami Rama
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I Rise Up Singing
This morning I rise up singing
From the night’s bed of dreams,
Eager to use every moment of this
Blossoming day to choose
Love over the fear, pain and suffering
Which has been darkening my
Own heart’s inner sight.
Its true that my life has been
A battle between darkness and light,
And that I have allowed others,
Situations and circumstances to
Rule over me and determine
My state of mind…
I’ve been at the mercy of
People, places and things which have
Caused me to rise and fall on a
Wild roller coaster ride.
But today is the day I awaken
To loving, knowing and appreciating myself.
Today, I choose the power of Love
To rule over even the most
Threatening fear and pain.
Today, I choose to rise up singing
In celebration of the precious
One I am and have always been.
Today, I rise up singing the
Songs of freedom, like the eagle
Who knows that the limitless sky
Is here to soar up in,
And spreads his wings to
To catch unseen swirling currents to
To rise and rise again and again.
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“There are chords in every human heart.
If we only knew how to strike the right chord,
We would bring out the music…” —Gandhi
“The heart that Loves
Is always young and free,
Ever rising up towards its
Sweet divine destiny.” —Indian Proverb