“Aim your arrow at the sun”

A long time ago I ran across this saying, and it has stuck with me as my favorite quotation of all time:

“Aim your arrow at the sun and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if you aim at an object on a level with yourself.”

I suppose this has been my guiding principle throughout my life, even before I was consciously on the spiritual path.  Always try to do my best and my highest, and if I didn’t quite make it, well, at least I wound up better than when I started.  Three steps forward and one step back, and all that.  And sometimes one step forward became a giant leap upward.

The farther along I go on my spiritual path, the higher that sun climbs.  So I have even farther to shoot for; but that’s good, because each step of the way I do learn more, grow more, and come closer to my highest and my best.  I can’t wait to find out what that highest and best ultimately is!

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