Circle of Trust

I like to find a thought provoking quote or aphorism for my CoTs, something that rings true to me, and often something that I feel that I need to hear or be reminded of, so I’m going with that:

You have a right to your actions, but never to your actions’ fruits. Act for the action’s sake. And do not be attached to inaction.

Self-possessed, resolute, act without any thought of results, open to success or failure.

-Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 2 Vs 48

Among many other things, we have been reminded lately that we live in a deeply uncertain world. It’s hard to say what tomorrow will bring, and perhaps harder still to know what we can or should do about it–Indeed how can you plan a course of action to address an outcome that you can’t even predict? We don’t know what tomorrow will bring, and attachment to some future reward or desired outcome is a chimera and ultimately a prison whose walls we erect around ourselves. Rather than struggle against the conditions of our lives, it is far better to accept the moment for what it is and relentlessly take the next best action that we can. Not the abstract best, but the best that we can do with our imperfect understanding, our limited abilities and our faltering courage. In taking action we may find that our understanding deepens, our abilities grow, and that we possess far more courage than we thought.

Go out and do your best today.