No man can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue. Worry is not merely useless, it is folly, for it defeats that power and intelligence which is otherwise equal to the task. Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with: anxiety is, therefore unnecessary. The task which can not be over come ceases to be a difficulty and becomes an impossibility; and anxiety is still unnecessary, for there is only one way of dealing with an imposibillity - namely, to summit to it. The inevitable is the best. Do not regard your difficulties and perplexities as portentous of ill; by so doing you will make them ill; but regard them as prophetic of good, which indeed they are. Do not persuade yourself that you can evade them; you can not. Do not try to run away from them; this is impossible, for wherever you go they will still be there with you - but meet them calmly and bravely; confront them with all the dispassion and dignity which you can command; weight up their proportions; analyse them; grasp their details; measure their strength, understand them; attack and finally vanquish them. Then will you develop strength and intelligence; then will you enter one of those blessedness which are hidden from the superficial gaze.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:21:59 +0000
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