mistakes...

Are you sure your mistakes are just mistakes? Or could they be building blocks to a success beyond any you imagined?

Gallup conducted a poll asking people what was the worst thing that ever happened to them. Then the pollsters asked the same people what was the best thing that ever happened to them. The surveyors found an 80% correlation between the worst and best experiences. Four out of five people reported that the worst thing that ever happened to them turned out to be the best.

We all make mistakes, and plenty of them. Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to be open to a bigger picture that embraces your humanity while rising above it. True perfection has space for imperfection. Think of your life as a grand mosaic. When you examine your acts with a magnifying glass, you see many flaws. Step back and you discover that every little piece has an important place in a grander design. It is our belief in mistakes, and dwelling upon them, that makes them seem more real than eternal love.

Everything is part of something bigger, and mistakes are no exception. Every minus is half of a plus, waiting for a stroke of vertical awareness. In his brilliant book [i]Illusions,[/i]

Richard Bach explains that every problem comes to you with a gift in its hands. If you focus only on what went wrong, you miss the gift. If you are willing to look deeper and ask for the insight, the problem dissipates, you are left only with the learning, and you advance on your path.

[i]A Course in Miracles[/i] tells us, "It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful." The Course also notes that trust is the bedrock of a true master's belief system. Trust implies faith that there is a wiser plan afoot than the one that meets the eye. Only the inner eye, the insight of higher wisdom, can make sense out of apparent human error.

You can regret your errors, and those of others, or you can honour them. At the very least, mistakes are opportunities to practice forgiveness. At the most, they are invitations to acknowledge perfection. Ultimately, real forgiveness means seeing good where others find fault.

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. You become your own best friend when you do the same.

Here are some quotes from famous people.

Al Franken:
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

John Powell:
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Niels Bohr:
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Richard Needham:
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910

Thomas Jefferson:
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Virginia Satir:

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

inhatethis site....lol

This post actually pointed to a biggest PIG on this site.. prrimepig (wish to call himself primebitch)? err.. what ever?..primegerm? prime something..
Be positive idiot?

LOL Q, I do find that alot of my "mistakes" was a start of a new beginning. and then theres that small amount..that are just mistakes( embarrassing at that)..nothing learned, gained, good comming out of it.. and no I wont mention what it was 😛

AK

Thank You fo these pearls of wisdom dear Q. Love them.

Well said Q-bone, per usual you are spot on........my own 2 favourite quotes on mistakes are thefollowing:

To make mistakes is our birthright....Anthony DeMello.

There are no mistakes about anything really......just differernt outcomes.....S.Jefferson.

Why fret too much....put your "mistake" down to an experience and continue to bob along:-)

Alana x

gorgeous!

Posted by domino_O
what ever happened to Q?

He used to sound like a normal person.

Trolls happen to this site, you want to know more..?? Topic and posts belongs to the glorious times of DXP??_!

See what I mean..?? DXP use to be a place for fun, share, wisdom, love.. Now is the home of bunch of fucking trolls and fish fuck gays??_

do not let the little divels stop you Q. The small minded will never understand the Ideas of realy great.