Beyond the Chapter
Click READ MORE to launch the short video. Don’t let a chapter define you; it’s not the whole book. *** Do you describe yourself by what happened to you? Do you focus on your mistakes? Do you say, “I’m the one who failed,” or “I’m the one who broke something that cannot be fixed,” or “I’m the person whose life fell apart”? With each statement like that, our experiences become our identity, and we begin to believe that is who we are: the broken, the failed… Spirituality offers us another way to see life: we realize we are the person who experienced those things, but we are not those things…the anger, the hurt, the insecurities. That was just a chapter in our Book of Life. With that realization, we can move beyond the chapter. Over time, we learn to connect with that deeper part of ourselves—the part that can observe with compassion and clarity. That part remains untouched by each disappointment, every mistake, and everything we have self-judged as failure. The difficult chap...