A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 31
“Your heart is your compass in the journey of life; follow it.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 31
The walk-through
Knowing what you want out of life sounds like an easy thing to do, and it isn’t. The words are simple; what they ask of you is not. The question rests on an older one — who you are — and answering that takes brutal honesty.
It also takes time. “The process of knowing yourself is a long one, lasting for your whole life,” and at the end of it you find you still have more to learn. That isn’t discouraging, because it pays out as it goes: the more of yourself you know, the clearer the kind of life you want becomes.
Then the decisions are yours. No one can make them for you, since “only you know where it is” — the place you’re trying to reach. A heart with self-knowledge behind it is the instrument that points there.
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