Ligatures of Devotion
A BonBon Inspiring!...
Powerful!...
Life changing!...
Motivating!...
A moving call to action!...
The speech was a knockout.
Everyone in the audience was touched, moved, and challenged.
To a person, they got the message and vowed to follow the call.
They were persuaded, willing to make the necessary and desired changes.
Then...
nothing happened.
Nothing at all! While it is important to kindle the vision and muster the resolve, that is the easy part.
All of that motivation achieves nothing unless you also cut your ligatures of devotion.
They bind you and blind you to achieving heartfelt desires, challenging goals, or a greater vision.
These strands may be small, but there are many of them: - Habits, those things you do routinely without thinking or attention - Cold slogans and clichés that have long served you, but which have lost their relevance - Relationships, along with their related expectations, that have ceased to grow and nurture - Unexamined assumptions - Dogmatic and slavish devotion to the past and the familiar - Ways you regularly waste your time, energy, money, and opportunities - Causes and commitments that no longer suit you or serve you - Short-sighted values and priorities - Passivity, indifference, and inertia - Self-defeating behaviors that lead to unintended, yet predictable, consequences - Irresponsible desires and activities - Early childhood programming that you've never examined or outgrown Each of these ties can be changed or broken in a moment's effort - once you pay heed to their restrictive pull.
But you must first notice their presence, their negative influences.
They are your status quo.
Each of them asserts a powerful drag that keeps everything (and you) just the same.
Their tendrils hold you, tied like a prisoner to your own past and unexamined habits.
Whenever you break those ligatures of faded devotion, you are like Gulliver, severing his puny bonds.
After you're freed from those many small ties, you can move forward - toward your beckoning goals.
Your devotion to many of the old and cold connections doesn't serve you.
Inquire, "Does this link bind me to strengths or to limitations?" Sever those restrictive ligatures.
Each snip acts as a liberation! Finally, your resolves and desires can move you forward decisively! At last, whatever has inspired you is within your grasp.
BonBons Feed Your Heart A BonBon is wisdom in bite-sized pieces.
This BonBon was quoted from How to Survive a Spiritual Hangover.
Read other BonBons posted at [http://www.
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spiritualhangover.
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html]
Powerful!...
Life changing!...
Motivating!...
A moving call to action!...
The speech was a knockout.
Everyone in the audience was touched, moved, and challenged.
To a person, they got the message and vowed to follow the call.
They were persuaded, willing to make the necessary and desired changes.
Then...
nothing happened.
Nothing at all! While it is important to kindle the vision and muster the resolve, that is the easy part.
All of that motivation achieves nothing unless you also cut your ligatures of devotion.
They bind you and blind you to achieving heartfelt desires, challenging goals, or a greater vision.
These strands may be small, but there are many of them: - Habits, those things you do routinely without thinking or attention - Cold slogans and clichés that have long served you, but which have lost their relevance - Relationships, along with their related expectations, that have ceased to grow and nurture - Unexamined assumptions - Dogmatic and slavish devotion to the past and the familiar - Ways you regularly waste your time, energy, money, and opportunities - Causes and commitments that no longer suit you or serve you - Short-sighted values and priorities - Passivity, indifference, and inertia - Self-defeating behaviors that lead to unintended, yet predictable, consequences - Irresponsible desires and activities - Early childhood programming that you've never examined or outgrown Each of these ties can be changed or broken in a moment's effort - once you pay heed to their restrictive pull.
But you must first notice their presence, their negative influences.
They are your status quo.
Each of them asserts a powerful drag that keeps everything (and you) just the same.
Their tendrils hold you, tied like a prisoner to your own past and unexamined habits.
Whenever you break those ligatures of faded devotion, you are like Gulliver, severing his puny bonds.
After you're freed from those many small ties, you can move forward - toward your beckoning goals.
Your devotion to many of the old and cold connections doesn't serve you.
Inquire, "Does this link bind me to strengths or to limitations?" Sever those restrictive ligatures.
Each snip acts as a liberation! Finally, your resolves and desires can move you forward decisively! At last, whatever has inspired you is within your grasp.
BonBons Feed Your Heart A BonBon is wisdom in bite-sized pieces.
This BonBon was quoted from How to Survive a Spiritual Hangover.
Read other BonBons posted at [http://www.
spiritualhangover.
com/bonbons.
html] ©2007, Faith Lynella[http://www.
spiritualhangover.
com/perplexing100.
html]
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