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The vision for which we live

You probably have a vision for which you live. Most of the time this vision will be beyond your current physical capacities to achieve but why should you still persist no matter how grand the vision before our mind's eye might seem before our current state?


The answer is simple, even if the vision might seem too grand when you do a self-evaluation of your current capacities, you possess the seed for the development of whatever capacities you might need to achieve your vision. If you are really really passionate about what you are aspiring for, if you are constantly immersed in the thought of achievement. If it is not just a fleeting desire but a burning vision, if it is your singular focus, the only thing that will give meaning to your biological existence, then you will achieve it or a fair approximation to it.

Currently, you might not be expressing all the capacities for which you are capable of, but with persistence in searching for ways to go beyond your current limits, you will eventually find clues that will lead to doorways that will take you beyond your current state and limits and into the state for which it will be much easier to chase some vision for which you live for.

If survival is your only motive then what I speak of here might seem like a remote unnecessary possibility, but if you live for something greater than yourself then you understand what I am talking about.

As always remember that it is always about the survival of the persistent.

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