The surest way to cheat ourselves out of a meaningful life is to make safety our highest priority.
By the way, this doesn’t just refer to a hyper-focus on our physical safety. It can also pertain to our emotional, intellectual and even spiritual security.
Please understand, this is a not a call to live recklessly or to engage in self-destructive behavior.
It’s a recognition that in order to live right, we must be willing to live dangerously.
We must face our fears, take risks, make mistakes and then fix our failures.
Living dangerously means that we place a higher value on becoming who we were born to become than on simply doing what we’re told.
Paul Rosenberg says it like this:
“But unquestioning compliance is the easy way. It’s what the system is designed to extract from you. It’s what school trains you for, it’s what corporations expect of you, and it’s what government demands.”
Too many people are content to follow a script that was handed to them by someone else.
By handing over the responsibility of making these choices for ourselves, we may avoid some risk but at the cost of turning away from our own thoughts, decisions and potential.
That’s a high price to pay for a sense of safety.
The system has made living outside its controls dangerous, but it’s the only path to the kind of authentic growth that brings lasting satisfaction.
Our life expands according to our courage to live dangerously.
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