Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
The alumni of life's school of hard knocks learn from bitter experiences that blaming others for their misfortunes ignores their own culpability.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~ Thomas a Kempis
Thomas Kempis reminds us that egolessness is fertile earth for growing solutions to those difficulties that can appear not to be resolvable, until we have stopped using the blame game to excuse our responsibility, opening our thoughts to the panacea waiting at our side guiding us out of our self imposed dilemma.
Conquering our ego is a matter of choosing to come to terms with our many frailties, predictably concealed to ensure that the world sees us for all that we are not.
Humility is our ever present birth right guaranteed to open our thoughts to the guidance of the Divine Mystery, inviting us to let Him lead us through our life's journey of self discovery.
Adversity Academy's alumni share a common understanding having reached rock bottom,
they learn that troughs are surrounded by peaks,
waiting to be scaled once the blame game has exhausted pointing its finger at shadows.
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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