John F. Kennedy Meditation No. 1

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” —John F. Kennedy

Courage is choosing to change.

Peace is one of the things I find the most difficulty with achieving on a weekly basis. This is probably because I am not a peaceful mind.

I strive for challenge. I strive for struggle. I want to be tested. But, sometimes you run out of external challenges and you are forced to embrace the peaceful world that your inner warlord conquered.

I am constantly looking for war but after years of war, I don’t see any challenges around me. I only see the conquered, the weak, the decimated. A lot of that perspective comes from conquering myself. My process of slaying old ideas and forging ahead with my own thoughts and beliefs left a world of friends or fallen. A world devoid of true foes.

I don’t get challenged externally anymore. I don’t have external realms to conquer. I just have the internal to keep me busy. And that struggle is peaceful. That struggle slowly erodes old, external beliefs and replaces them with proven, internal beliefs.

Peace is a daily struggle when you are at war with the world, but when you’re battling yourself, peace is the only way forward.

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Wallace Stegner Meditation No. 1

“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.”

― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

Courage is choosing to change.

I have a rule for that. Those rules are one of the reasons I am here tap-taping away Monday through Friday. I have rules to keep me moving towards the change.

I have rules that keep me away from the news. I have rules that make certain I eat healthy in a narrow window of time. I have rules all over the place.

The rules are of my own making. The rules are personal. The rules are sensical.

I am not a fan of other folks giving me their rules. They’re not my rules. They’re not based on my experience. They’re not based on the science of my life.

I hope you have your own rules. Not rules given to you. Not rules handed down. Not rules from years ago. Not rules from miles away. But rules you make.

We all need rules to guide our lives, however, it’s your life, your body, your choice. So make your rules and get out there and live them?

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