by Dr.Mani on January 11, 2010
RE-TWEET IT!
When I wrote “Dare to be Different“, I hadn’t read Eckhart Tolle’s “A NEW EARTH“, from which this passage stood out when I read it today:
“There may be a period of insecurity and uncertainty. What should I do? As the ego is no longer running your life, the psychological need for external security, which is illusory anyway, lessens. You are able to live with uncertainty, even enjoy it.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.
The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that “the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity.”
- From Eckhart Tolle’s “A NEW EARTH”
by Dr.Mani on June 20, 2009
RE-TWEET IT!
I’m up way earlier than usual. That’s because I had surgery scheduled – but it’s postponed… because the patient’s family couldn’t locate a blood donor!
On hearing the news, we had no choice but to call off the proposed operation for now. 15 minutes later, I get a phone call from one of the family. It appears they have found a donor who is willing to give a unit of blood!
Here’s the interesting bit. This patient has been waiting for an operation for over a week. But until now, no effort had been made to find the single donor required.
But when surgery was cancelled, they swung into action – and produced results in just 15 minutes!
Only when something important to us is at stake do we get moved into shifting inertia.
Inertia is the happy state of things as they were – at rest or in constant motion. Change out of inertia is painful, disruptive.
So we resist making it.
Until inertia itself becomes more painful – and change, painful though it is, seems the better alternative.
Are you going to go out and find your ‘blood donor’ today? Or will you wait until ’surgery is cancelled’?
