**Originally posted on 6 Aug 2012**
Nothing like starting my birthday off with a midnight run in the rain. :)
Khrysti's birthday thought o' the day: I've been hearing/reading a lot lately about letting go of whatever "story" you maintain about yourself that's holding you or keeping you from whatever growth you would like to be experiencing. But lately I've been wondering if the solution isn't to let go of all stories, but instead to make sure that you are actually living the one composite story you *want* to be living... reducing the distance/disconnect between the way you know you actually are (because you can't fool yourself) and the way you really *want* to be (the story you *want* to believe/know is true about yourself). In other words, taking action towards actually LIVING that story, starting now.
Maybe that's my birthday wish... for any of you who have ever had the thought "I wish I was more/less ____________" or "I wish I was more like ________" to take any possible little step today towards actually BEING "more/less ___________" or "more like _________".
♥ you all so very much.
(If it helps to post it here as a birthday present to me please do. :) )
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And a couple of delightful follow-up quotes:
"Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value." - Hesse
"To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know is disease." - Lao Tzu
"To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know is disease." - Lao Tzu
