“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
ā€• Friedrich Nietzsche
Aside from what I believe in, living in harmony...of course not being a robber... etc. lol... Let's look at the point of this quote. Friedrich has a powerful point here, because we all tend to hold back. We tend to stay shy, to limit ourselves, to keep our mouth shut, to stand down. To stay small. Someone once asked me "who, darling, in your life made you feel so small?"
Friedrich's quote is to remind us to stand up, stand up for what you believe in, shoot! decide what it is you WANT to believe in and carve a way to let THAT energy flow through creation and existence. Take risks, take chances! Be fearless. Accelerate toward your goals and dreams. Take action now.
This energy in life, the one that limits you, will either control you or you will control it. But you see, it's good energy because there is a breakthrough on the other side of it. Harvest the good and look for what might be blooming on the other side of the limitation. Don't worry if you can't see it, just know it's there and it's waiting for you with open arms...
This is your life. And as an amazing teacher named Bob Proctor once said "There is only one of you to do all of this... There is only 1 of you."
I took this to mean, that I have to make bigger moves.
For me, one thing I have been faced with over and over again... is bravery. I get scared, I decide to be brave. I don't see where the path is going, I decide to be brave. I lose a little hope, I decide to be brave. I'm flying by the seat of my pants, I choose bravery. It feels dangerous, but is it? Am I living dangerously or am I completely surpassing all of my limitations?
Lora
