Thought for Today - Expect Not

Good Morning
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Expect Not
How fast can life become? How much can we do in the corporeal amount of
Time we have. There is only 24 hours in the day, but we're trying to fit 26
Hours into it. If we could watch a movie of our average day we'd probably be
amazed at all the things we try to do. And then there is the exact
opposite.
Some of us spend our lives watching others doing and achieving, and from
these images we build such high expectations of our own life, and then
sit around feeling utterly powerless in our attempts to meet these
expectations.
That powerlessness becomes hopelessness and hopelessness becomes
depression.
If we can just see this process and release these expectations. If we
can at least be detached from any expectations, we will get back some of our
inner power and self motivation. It helps to stop watching others and their
lifestyles, especially in the media, and then comparing yourself to
them. It helps to eliminate all but one 'I wish' from your mind. There is
only one valid and useful 'I wish' and it is simply "I wish to be me". For
that is all you can ever be. It is all you can ever have. It is all that you
are. And when you know it, you will be free of all expectation and desire,
and able to enter the most relaxed state of being, at will.