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Monday, February 11, 2013

THE LIMITS OF POTENTIAL

     Particularly if we are visionary types, it's easy to fall in love with someone's potential. We can see their strengths, better than they can, and we appreciate all of their special gifts and talents. We feel certain that they will blossom and thrive exactly as we expect them to under the umbrella of our loving attention.
     And when they do not, we feel let down. But for whatever reason, not eveyone is capable of reaching their potential, or has any desire to do so. We would do better to fall in love with people as they are and where they stand, in whatever state of self-realization that we find them. If they are awake, or beginning to wake up, then the will likely continue on the awakening path, and if they are unconscious, well then, that's where they are.

I accept people as they are and do not expect them to change in the way that suits me best.