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Consider these quotes from the saints:

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!”
-St. Catherine of Sienna

“The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.”
-St. Teresia Benedicta (Edith Stein)

 

In other words, be who you were created to be; discover who you are in Christ and then simply allow this inner reality to slowly manifest itself in your life.

Consider this humourous insight by Einstein:

Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid

When we are crushed by failure,

by an ego-shattering defeat,

we judge ourselves as we must look on the surface.

Each of our endeavours appears to be executed

by an incompetent ne’er-do-well,

who flounders and never succeeds.

The only results seem to be fiascos, debacles, catastrophes, disasters and blunders.

Others call each effort a washout.

By any other name, it is still 

a flop.

Yet, upon further reflection,

this apparent lack of success,

is not a result of a lack of talent but the result of trying to play a role rather than discovering who God created us to be.

If a fish tries to fly in the air or climb a tree

BUT

A fish will feel like a genius

when..he discovers a unique way of swimming in water.