If you are not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control
of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of
whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware of the thoughts that
you think in each moment, then you are the rider with no reins, with no
power over where you are going. You cannot control what you are not
aware of. Awareness must come first.
Death toll rises in California wildfire, matching deadliest https://www.yahoo.com/news/n-california-fire-officials-begin-053932189.html?.tsrc=fauxdal -- God bless all of the brave fire fighter and warm love sent to all of the people that had to go through this nightmare. I pray more of the missing people are found alive. May the strength that got you to safety, continue to help you find peace again in your lives.
Trust is like a china plate. If you break it once, with some care and attention you can put it back together again. But if you break it again, it splits into even more pieces and it takes far longer to piece together again. If you break it more and more times, eventually it shatters to the point where it’s impossible to restore. There are too many broken pieces, and too much dust.
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you have failed at something. If someone is better than you at something, then it is likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it's likely because he hasn't been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.
Before we can look at our values and prioritization and change them into better, healthier ones, we must first become uncertain of our current values. We must intellectually, strip them away, see their faults and biases, see how they don't fit in with much of the rest of the world to stare our own ignorance in the face and concede, because our own ignorance is greater than us all.