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"Be like water." It cannot be stated any simpler than this. When you are angry... be like water. When you are met with an obstacle... be like water. When you are tired, confused, and carrying mental anguish... be like water...
It is hard to believe that water can be "smarter" than us - but it is. A single drop of water carries more common sense than most individuals. How so? Unlike most of us, when water is met with an obstacle, it takes the path of least resistance - it has the "common sense" to leave the large (and unimportant) obstacle where it is, and it continues to flow.
Water never gets tired. As it creates it's own path it encompasses obstacles - and it strives on. There are some things that can stop water, we'll say a dam for instance; however, the water is not the creator of the dam.....man is. And only man could be egotistical enough to attempt to control something so large and powerful.....just to benefit himself.
In life, humans create dams for other humans, to stop the flow of another. Many times it works. Many times we give up and stop flowing. Have you ever studied an actual dam? Water builds up, let's say it begins with a drop...then two...three, and so on. It builds and builds until eventually gates must be opened on the dam to allow the water to flow....to exactly where it wanted to go in the first place! The water ALWAYS wins!
It is clear. Let's say that a handful of sand is "gossip"...or "ill-intention"...or the number of times during the day you find yourself feeling angry. Now throw the handful of sand into the water. What do you think would happen? Of course the water diffuses the sand...it calms, and quietly allows the sand to sink....to destroy itself...and it ends there, within the water. How many times can we say we do that? Perhaps we aren't as smart as we think we are...
Be like Water ...
It is hard to believe that water can be "smarter" than us - but it is. A single drop of water carries more common sense than most individuals. How so? Unlike most of us, when water is met with an obstacle, it takes the path of least resistance - it has the "common sense" to leave the large (and unimportant) obstacle where it is, and it continues to flow.
Water never gets tired. As it creates it's own path it encompasses obstacles - and it strives on. There are some things that can stop water, we'll say a dam for instance; however, the water is not the creator of the dam.....man is. And only man could be egotistical enough to attempt to control something so large and powerful.....just to benefit himself.
In life, humans create dams for other humans, to stop the flow of another. Many times it works. Many times we give up and stop flowing. Have you ever studied an actual dam? Water builds up, let's say it begins with a drop...then two...three, and so on. It builds and builds until eventually gates must be opened on the dam to allow the water to flow....to exactly where it wanted to go in the first place! The water ALWAYS wins!
It is clear. Let's say that a handful of sand is "gossip"...or "ill-intention"...or the number of times during the day you find yourself feeling angry. Now throw the handful of sand into the water. What do you think would happen? Of course the water diffuses the sand...it calms, and quietly allows the sand to sink....to destroy itself...and it ends there, within the water. How many times can we say we do that? Perhaps we aren't as smart as we think we are...
Be like Water ...
