Sometimes we so concentrate on our present circumstances, we never see the big picture.
When you feel like you’re in a pit, that you’ve dug yourself into a hole, or feel like the whole world or even God is against you, you don’t realize how far you’ve come.
Every time you’re in “the hole,” you’re that much better off.
Let’s use another metaphor. Tens of thousands of years ago and many thousands of years afterward, humans viewed autumn as a time of dying, winter as a time of death, spring as a time of rebirth or resurrection, summer as full-blown life or abundance.
Thinking in terms of that cycle, look at the trees. They only grow after they’ve “died.” Each winter, they are “dead”—yet, they end up being reborn with another ring. They only grow after they die. They only get taller and larger after they have been dormant.
Our life is a cycle of good times and difficult times. Life and death. Up and down.
We don’t spend our lives walking; we climb. Flat plains are wonderful respites, but we learn when we climb. We have the opportunity to learn even more when we fall. The key to Life is not in avoiding the hole; the pit is the keyhole, and you climbing out of every pit is the key.
No one is immune to hardship. No one can evade troubles. No one escapes the feeling of “going nowhere.” Every single one of us, when we look back on our life, can see the series of pits—not because we can see them on a flat plain—but because we’re elevated. We can see where we’ve been because we turn around to look down the steady incline behind us. We know what holes we have climbed out of because we can look back and down at them!
So do not be discouraged if you feel you are in a pit “yet again.” You are literally climbing the stairway to heaven.
If you knew how strong you really are, you would never get discouraged. See yourself for the magnificently resilient being that is you.
Be not afraid. You can do this. You already have. Getting higher requires that you climb. Adding another ring to your growth requires a season of dying or dormancy—like you are going nowhere. But you are. You just haven’t climbed out of the latest hole—yet.
Keep climbing. I’ll climb with you. We will all celebrate at the top.
I love you and I thank you. Namasté.