Comments on: Quote of the Day http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/07/03/quote-of-the-day-132/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:31:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Patricia Müller http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/07/03/quote-of-the-day-132/comment-page-1/#comment-43992 Patricia Müller Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:03:19 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1405#comment-43992 I think this quote from an article at www.stevepavlina.com/blog helps this quote here make sense (at least in the way I see it): "I think we're often sent small opportunities to test our readiness. If we block those small opportunities, we're broadcasting that we aren't ready to receive the bigger ones yet." Full article here: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/07/how-to-earn-your-first-love-dollar/ In other words, some blessings come in disguise, some blessings are smaller than we expect, but when we fail to accept (or even recognize) those as blessings and feel grateful for them, we aren't really ready for the bigger blessings - therefore, that becomes a curse. Someone asked above "why would anyone reject a blessing, if s/he can see it as one?" - that's the problem exactly, some people don't really recognize the value in smaller blessings and reject them. Besides, the original quote doesn't say "A blessing that is recognized as such and rejected becomes a curse.; it only says "A blessing rejected becomes a curse." ;-) I think this quote from an article at http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog helps this quote here make sense (at least in the way I see it):

“I think we’re often sent small opportunities to test our readiness. If we block those small opportunities, we’re broadcasting that we aren’t ready to receive the bigger ones yet.”

Full article here:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/07/how-to-earn-your-first-love-dollar/

In other words, some blessings come in disguise, some blessings are smaller than we expect, but when we fail to accept (or even recognize) those as blessings and feel grateful for them, we aren’t really ready for the bigger blessings – therefore, that becomes a curse.

Someone asked above “why would anyone reject a blessing, if s/he can see it as one?” – that’s the problem exactly, some people don’t really recognize the value in smaller blessings and reject them. Besides, the original quote doesn’t say “A blessing that is recognized as such and rejected becomes a curse.; it only says “A blessing rejected becomes a curse.” ;-)

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