A marvelous lesson appeared for me just now as I was exiting the office. As I opened the door, I startled at a butterfly, which, upon spreading it’s wings, displayed a bright red “tail” hidden by the motley brown wings.
It flew immediately to its perceived escape, the circle-topped window where it frantically tried to exit through the invisible wall of closed glass.
I opened the door again in an attempt to aid it’s escape. That caused it to fly higher and higher and become entangled in a spider web. Fearful that it would remain entangled in the web, I selected a long-handled broom to assist him escaping the tangled threads.
At this, he returned to furiously pumping his wings and banging into the glass, which was, in his perspective, the pathway of escape, but remained his cage.
By simply turning his focus to the other side, he would have easily exited his prison. Rather, due to his intent on one direction, he remained confined and a captive.
Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. “Too often in life, we focus on the things we cannot do. Sometimes we cannot do things because of financial limitations, health limitations, family limitations, educational limitations, and so on. Sometimes, we end up limiting ourselves from achieving success in reaching our goals.”