obstacles

The brick walls are there for a reason. Right? The brick walls are not there to keep us out, the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles
than when there are few or none

Motivation and desire are the bulldozers that move obstacles to your goal.

The obstacles to the growth of intuitive knowledge are:

            •   Eagerness for results
            •   Use of the imagination, whether intellectually or emotionally
            •   Intrusion of irrelevant thoughts during meditation
            •   Ingratitude and skepticism when intuitive perceptions cannot yet be understood intellectually
            •   Self-complacency and unwillingness to confess mistakes

"A diamond is a lump of coal made good under pressure."
 

                                       --  anon

Often one of the stumbling blocks to living a simpler life is our inability or unwillingness to change how we play some of the games that got us into these complicated lives in the first place.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.