Untangled
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy
anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good
anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was
never between you and them anyway."
Mother Teresa
Comfort Across the Airwaves
Thank you to TMR for posting this quote from Mother Teresa on Facebook. I've never seen it before--and it touched me in a moment of fatigue.
Why Untangled?
I named these words of wisdom from Mother Teresa 'Untangled' because that's what it did for me this morning--untangled my thoughts when I was tired. I read them over and over again until I was able to let go of the entanglements I discovered lingering inside me.
It is so easy to get tangled up in faulty self-centered thinking after we work hard to achieve good things with the best of intentions--but we haven't yet taken enough time to recoup our energy.
"Tangled up thinking can lead us in a direction far away from our heart's desire to do good, be good and feel good."
What I found in Mother Teresa's wisdom is grounding truth for staying the course despite the daily difficulties--and the truth of how to be internally motivated and driven. It is simple unadorned truth for how to keep you doing good.
- Where are your thoughts tangled up today?
- Where do you have faulty self-centered thinking?
- What part of Mother Teresa's Wisdom speaks to you today?
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