Nothing is Yours Forever
"Nothing is yours forever."
The money you have in the bank, your car or house, your business, even the family you have. You only "own" them while your heart still beats.
Think about it. The fact of life is, there is no real, lasting ownership.
Even your own life is not yours. You lose that someday too.
This is a hard truth for multitudes. For we live in a culture that constantly creates the illusion of ownership. We delude ourselves with the belief that we can't be happy without owning or having.
I think of my life. Some future day, some quiet, heavily overcast morning, the sun rises again. But that day, I will be gone. Absent from my body.
Dust will settle on the books and study desk I love. Another will have the keys to my condominium I now carry ... and withdraw money from my bank accounts ... and fill my personal space with his or her own laughter and tears.
That's reality for all of us. Painful and difficult as it may be to endure such thoughts - that's basic fact, that's sure and real!
Nothing is yours forever. There is no true ownership on this temporal earthly life.
I once worked on this reality with a Chinese multimillionaire. He was overly attached to his possessions, leading to unnecessary mental and physical health problems.
He was big on "owning." When I laughed about it, he started healing!
This reality we're talking about, I remind you, is a world from which most mentally and emotionally disturbed patients have escaped and been "misliving" their lives. They've become pathologically attached.
And its this reality to which they must return before health is redeemed.
Seeing reality, seeing this life as it really is, is unquestionably the healthiest place for you and I.
The money you have in the bank, your car or house, your business, even the family you have. You only "own" them while your heart still beats.
Think about it. The fact of life is, there is no real, lasting ownership.
Even your own life is not yours. You lose that someday too.
This is a hard truth for multitudes. For we live in a culture that constantly creates the illusion of ownership. We delude ourselves with the belief that we can't be happy without owning or having.
I think of my life. Some future day, some quiet, heavily overcast morning, the sun rises again. But that day, I will be gone. Absent from my body.
Dust will settle on the books and study desk I love. Another will have the keys to my condominium I now carry ... and withdraw money from my bank accounts ... and fill my personal space with his or her own laughter and tears.
That's reality for all of us. Painful and difficult as it may be to endure such thoughts - that's basic fact, that's sure and real!
Nothing is yours forever. There is no true ownership on this temporal earthly life.
I once worked on this reality with a Chinese multimillionaire. He was overly attached to his possessions, leading to unnecessary mental and physical health problems.
He was big on "owning." When I laughed about it, he started healing!
This reality we're talking about, I remind you, is a world from which most mentally and emotionally disturbed patients have escaped and been "misliving" their lives. They've become pathologically attached.
And its this reality to which they must return before health is redeemed.
Seeing reality, seeing this life as it really is, is unquestionably the healthiest place for you and I.
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