Making changes
By Mike Ashworth | February 8, 2010
Leonardo Da Vinci wrote that “When a bird lands in a tree, the whole world changes.”
That is because everything effects everything else, our actions change our reality, and that reality is the world around us.
Someone once said “everybody wants to change the world, yet nobody wants to change himself”.
It’s true, think about how often you have got involved in a world changing cause, something much bigger than your self, whether that be a donation, a march, even joining a group on facebook, yet how long do you spend in front of the mirror taking a deep look at yourself and making changes.
We fear change, we wonder what might happen to the people and things that surround us as we continue our journey, however if we are not moving, we are going backwards.
Life isn’t easy, it’s not supposed to be, it is full of pain and discomfort.
Rumi wrote a poem about a chickpea being boiled in the pot and it’s trying to climb out and the chef is pushing him back in with the ladle and the chef says to him “you think I’m punishing you but I’m not”. He says, “I’m just trying to make you sweet so you can sit with the rice and the herbs”. And when the chick pea realizes that he’s not being punished he says, “push me in twice because I want to be sweet”.
We need to marinate in that discomfort, work with it, and through this, amazing changes will occur.
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