Celebrate Weak Moments
Territory means that you would like to have things your way. You think what you are doing is great, but at the same time, there is a faint doubt. Maybe you are not doing everything wholeheartedly and properly. Maybe you cannot make it up to the prescribed level. You can’t be a good meditator, a good sitter, all the time. You can’t constantly keep up your humor all the time. You have your weak moments. Your weak moments show. Of course! Why not? that’s part of the celebration! Otherwise, there’s nothing to celebrate. If you don’t have your weak points, what’s left? Just blank white, without even a dot of ink, on the sheet of your life. You can celebrate because all kinds of things are involved with your life; therefore, it is a source of celebration. There is contrast–this and that, that and this–and things can’t be sorted out properly and put into proper perspective. So let it be that way! That seems to be the source of celebration, in fact!
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