What I love most about the sunrise is every morning is a new opportunity to start again. Life can be so overwhelming and it’s difficult to make clear decisions with so many things coming at you at once. We’re all so very busy and before you know it the day is over and we did not accomplish all your goals.
That’s why tomorrows are so wonderful you get another opportunity to try again. There are only 24 hours in each day and we can only do so much with that time. We have to make the most of this time knowing that we can always get up the next day and try again.
To try our best every day; this is what God expects of us and all we should expect of ourselves. It does not have to be perfect. In fact as the Japanese accept wabi sabi in art, I have come to accept it in life. Wabi sabi is finding the perfect in the imperfect. Life is an art form and we are the artist. We practice our art every day so that may achieve some level of personal mastery.
Personal mastery is achieved through life-long-learning and a sincere desire to become a better person who contributes to society. It’s okay to fall short of our goals; it’s not okay to give up on becoming a better person. Person mastery is something one works on everyday because it’s all about the journey.
In other words we continue to work on becoming better people knowing we will never be perfect, but we try our best every day. In the end, we are not looking for perfection in ourselves we just need to know we lived a good life; we helped others as much as possible; and every morning we got up and tried again.
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