Have you ever felt powerless or trapped by your circumstances?
I have found that the truth of who we are cannot be harmed by anything in the world. We do not need to search for fulfillment outside of us because it is already within us. The truth is that we create our own limitations.
Our unlimited potential is as innate to us as the capacity to breathe. Thankfully we do not have to think about how the next breath is going to come or worry whether there will be enough air for us to breathe tomorrow or in an hour. The ability to breathe is synonymous with being alive. The only thing that is worse than death is a life of unrealized potential.
“Compared with what we ought to be we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use”. William James