It’s this fear [of losing love or respect or comfort] that keeps us tied to mediocrity. We’re willing to sacrifice growth and purpose and meaning in our lives, just to hold on to our pacifiers, all the while searching all the wrong places for security[...] Life isn’t meant to be completely safe. Real security, however, is found inside us, in consistent personal growth, not in a reliance on growing external factors. Once we extinguish our outside requirements for the things that won’t ever make us truly secure—a fat paycheck, a sybaritic relation, a shiny new widget—we can shepherd our focus toward what’s going on inside us, no longer worshiping the things around us. Sure, we all need a particular level of external security to function: food, water, shelter, clothes, health, personal safety, positive relationships. But if we jettison life’s superfluous excess, we can find infinite security within ourselves. Security blanket or no, we can be absolutely secure alone in an empty room. theminimalists/security/ Made a big change to my life and chopped out a big financial security blanket in order to dedicate more energy towards growing my business (plus maintaining my health, and allocating more leisure time for myself...) Let go in order to grow. :)
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:46:56 +0000
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