At a restaurant, I noticed a couple enjoying what looked like some very tasty garlic toast. When I asked the waitress for an order of the same, she answered, “I’m sorry, the garlic toast comes only with the dinner.”
“Would it be possible to order some as a side order?” I persisted.
She looked puzzled. “I don’t know if that’s ever been done.”
“Then perhaps this is our opportunity to change history and create a new destiny,” I suggested. She smiled, went into the kitchen, and soon returned with a dish of piping hot garlic toast.
We can transform our lives by changing the way we think about possibilities. We are prone to picture our future as an extension of our past. But we have no guarantee at all that our future will be anything like our past. The nature of a consciousness shift is the release of an old belief system, replacing it with a new and grander one. Just when you think you know it all, life comes along and says, "Here, let me show you a bigger universe!" Thank God we do not know it all; if we did, we would be in big trouble, for most of what we know has made us small. Be grateful that the universe is willing to take away your impotence and replace it with magnitude.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Excerpt taken from Alan Cohen's meditation book, A Deep Breath of Life
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