Dear Doctor,
I received this bit of wisdom from outstanding member and Friend of The Masters
Circle, Dr. Mark Eisen from the Bronx, N.Y. It’s called, “Get Up Again.”
“The Talmud tells us that a righteous person falls seven times and gets up. The
defining characteristic is that he gets up -- not that he doesn't fall.
When trying to refine your character, giving up is seductive. It's too hard. I
can't do it. I'll never reach success.
The righteous person knows that he or she has to be stubborn and keep trying.
Once you've identified your area of weakness, you know you've found your
strength. In times when the Temple stood in Jerusalem, the state of highest
spiritual impurity was lifted only by a ceremony involving the ashes of a red
heifer, the mother of the golden calf.
The thing itself is the solution.
Once you've found the area where you have your greatest problems, keep digging
and stay stubborn because you've simultaneously identified the area of your
greatest success.”
It’s the rare individual who instantaneously manifests his or her fortune, or
even achieves it on the first attempt. Rather, most of us face a more
convoluted, tortuous pathway to accomplishment, with challenges and even
failures along the way. Ironically, these twists and turns in our route to
fulfillment usually hold seeds of distinction that enrich our journey, if not
redefine it.
Instead of dreading these adversities, the wise learn to embrace them, because
they invariably strengthen us and provide insights we might not otherwise be
privileged to experience. Though these rough times may hurt while they are
occurring, they are part of the unfolding of our own ultimate nature, and mature
hindsight often gives us the perspective we didn’t have access to at that
moment.
Indeed, capacity technology is based on the idea that weaker areas hold the keys
to our evolution, guiding our attention toward those aspects of ourselves that
need development in order for us to fully express our potential. Building the
resources we require to overcome our weaker areas is a missing link in most
people’s development, primarily because of the discomfort associated with
addressing these issues. This is what prompted Dr. Eisen to send me this passage
– blending tradition and contemporary thought, confirming that this concept
dates back to profound historic spiritual teachings.
Picking yourself up one more time than you get knocked down is a simple
definition of winning – only in this case, it’s about winning the game of life.
Your willingness to persevere, to come back from whatever disappointments and
frustrations and emerge victorious, is the surest way to feel completely and
utterly alive. Don’t let fear, apathy, anger or fatigue rob you of your
opportunity to break through – what you want is just on the other side of where
you are. Get up again, get up again and again, acting consistently with the
rhythm of life, and with that natural determination, nothing can ever stop you.
Dr. Dennis Perman, for The Masters Circle
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