your daily rock : let yourself yearn.

March 23, 2014 in Daily Rock, General

Our lives, when we add them all up at the end, are the sum of our deepest yearnings meeting the challenges we call obstacles.

We want our lives to have more meaning, and we feel that doing laundry gets in the way.

We want to love and be loved, and we feel that needing to protect ourselves gets in the way.

We yearn for peace, for significance, for success–whatever it is we yearn for–and our journey is thwarted, we feel.

But those obstacles are our teachers, placed along that path to teach us, if we can sit with them, know them, walk hand in hand with them.

Let yourself yearn. Give voice to your deepest dream. And remember, always, that the dream isn’t the point. The journey there is where the magic is.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.