Unlimited Horizons

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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towards a certain situation or person, that corresponding theme of life is active within us.
Yet don't expect this to always manifest in form of clearcut, intense, prolonged feelings. More often than not challenges surface in the disguise of trivial matter in the daily hustlebustle - which makes out the major part of our life.
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It is the minor, insignificant situations, where we e.g. prefer to speak with the one person that confirms our opinions, - rather than with another who may confront us with unfamiliar, uncomfortable views.
• They are the small opportunities to do something
positive, like at the supermarket checkout allowing a person with only one item to go ahead of us, before we start putting our many purchases on the belt.
• It is the impulse to do something precise, to execute an action as thorough as possible - instead of choosing carelessness and doing only some casual window-dressing.
It is these small, barely noticed situations in which we are challenged to grow or to stagnate, to help or to be petty, to open or to close our heart, to learn something new or to deem this far beneath us, to be as good as the magnificent person we feel we really are inside, or to remain our current limited self.
It is the sum-total of these minute decision that makes our life grow or stagnate, fascinating or boring, inspiring or a burden.
The magnificent we feel within us, here is its very beginning, here is the starting point from where to turn our life to wholly different horizons. These deceptively 'trivial' matters are a major key, - it pays to watch them far more closely.