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Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.
-- Jordan B. Peterson
 

 

Monday, May 24, 2010

Free from need

What do you really need? What if some of the things you think you need, you do not need at all?

Do you really need the approval of others? Do you really need to be offended by things that don’t even affect you?

Do you really need that order of fries or that fourth cocktail? Do you really need to speed through the light that’s already turned yellow?

Imagine being free of the burden of so much self-imposed and useless need. Instead of being boxed in by your nagging little needs, you can be empowered to fulfill your greatest desires.

The next time you instinctively act out of a sense of need, stop and ask yourself something. Is it really a need, or is it just a comfortable way to hide from your best possibilities?

Choose to stop needing so much. As soon as you do, you’ll find that you have more than ever.

— Ralph Marston

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