Today's reflection comes from a portion of The PATH weekly email meditation we send every Monday, and it's on potential.
One of the heartbreaking things about humans is our tendency to settle, to place false limits on our true potential. The theologian Thomas Merton said, “The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote this himself, “If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible — for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.” [...]
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