One of the smallest and most empowering changes I’ve made is to realize I do not have to identify myself with my behaviors, nor write my future that way. We may do something, but it does make us that. Being is at the base of doing.
Because we have acted a certain way in the past, does not mean we have to continue to do so.
Just because I’ve done that before does not mean I will do it again, not if I don’t want to. Not if I take time to understand why that occurred, and to change it.
As Eckhart Tolle says, it’s “The Power of Now.” Tendency is not destiny.
Drafted July 25, and thought I posted then. (And the light in my living room just flickered on unexpectedly.)