CRUCIBLE OF GREATNESS
A crucible is:
a severe test; a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
And a Crucible of Greatness is a place that catalyzes you to take action in the direction of something not yet formed, trusted or believed. A place wherein all of your survival instincts may be telling you to run, escape, hide, distract. When your internal ‘freeze, fight or flight’ survival mechanism is switched up to maximum and you are thrashing about.
It’s a recognition that there is no journey and certainly no growth without the adversity that forces you to question your current identity, values, beliefs, behaviours and parameters. A necessary place of radical self-confrontation.
The Crucible of Greatness asks you to drink deeply of the full measure of the crisis, and in moving through, discovering, reclaiming and forging qualities from within yourself that were not there before (though perhaps glimpsed in the flickering light of your ever-becoming).
Someone other than the person you were before the crisis emerges, transformed, renewed. Clearer, and with a diamond in your hand.
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An authentic, truthful blog. Offerring the appropriate inspiration, with the underlying strength.
Touching all my personal ‘pressure points’, at this time.
Thank you. Deeply appreciated. 🙏💙
You are so welcome, dear Silvia. I think we are all feeling it, and to share the experience assists us all to walk together. With Love to you, Fatima xxx