Is it possible to overcome oneself “gently”?
In my opinion, NO.
Self-improvement always means
to reach a limit of yourself that, for you, always,
It’s something serious.
Maybe it’s not for someone else, it can pass easily
or with a little effort beyond that limit,
because its limit is… above.
But for you that’s the limit level,
It is the level that, until now, you have never been able to surpass.
And you would like to surpass it.
How?
You apply the law of self-improvement:
“There is no limit to bearability,
because it is illusory
And we always discover
that the limit of bearability is self-indulgent”.
Of course, we can’t jump 10 meters high,
we can’t dive without a special suit to a depth of 100 meters,
But here it is a matter of enduring.
In the name of authenticity and goodness,
to overcome a limit, whatever it may be,
We can see that there is no limit to bearability.
What seemed unbearable we find is, in fact, possible to bear.
And overcoming a personal limit with something significant
is not harmonious.
Is it possible to overcome oneself “gently”?
Harmony is a desire, but it is a luxury,
a particular case that we sometimes obtain,
AFTER transcending a limit.
The real goal is
TRANSCENDING THE LIMIT.
When the transformation occurs,
She doesn’t come with flowers, but with… Difficulties.
If you want to surpass yourself, you assume, endure and cross the line.
If you don’t want to, you pretend to yourself that you want to change and
you apply the law of the demagogue Cațavencu:
“Out of two, let me:
either they are revised, they will receive!
But let nothing change;
or not to revise, they receive!
But then let it change here and there,
namely in the points… essential”
Acharya Leonard Radutz