Are You Willing to Give up Your Utopian Constructs?
by Gary Douglas
Mar 15, 2019
4 minutes
When you are willing to let go of the constructs you hold about what is ideal, you open yourself to the possibility of being present and engaged in life.
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An ideal is something that you have judged to be greater than what is.
I never have an ideal scene that I’m looking for and I don’t look for something to be greater than what is. I function from pragmatic choice, which means I deal with what is — with facts and observable occurrences rather than constructs and ideals. It’s got to be practical. It’s got to be something I can use.
I ask, “How is this going to work? What is this going to look like? What is this going to lead to?” I look at, “What is it?” because what it
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