Driven by challenge

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We need to periodically ask, “What wants to come into the world through me?” This is not an ego-driven, narcissistic question. It is a query which summons us to show up, to serve something larger than the familiar, the comfortable. Surely one of the most telling tests of our lives is whether we are living in a way which is driven more by challenge than by comfort, one which asks more of us than we had planned to offer.

James Hollis, Embracing the New: Avoiding a Routinized Life

3 thoughts on “Driven by challenge

  1. Henry Ford said this “If we realize what we can do then we will be astound.” Truly life has more to it than we think.

  2. I believe we all have more abilities and power that we think we have. Sometimes we just reclined in our comfortable chairs without having the energy to move, we get accustomed. But… there’s a much powerful energy that feeds us all and when we know about that inner-power, challenges happen and with that many things can change for the better in our lives.
    I totally agree with Sarvjit’s comment, by the way.

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