{"id":1775,"date":"2012-07-31T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2012-07-29T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T22:08:22","slug":"working-through-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2012\/07\/working-through-limitations.html","title":{"rendered":"Working Through Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You master something because you work at it in steps; and as you work at it, you recognize that you&#8217;ve taken yourself as far as you can take yourself with the possibilities that are present to you. Then what?<\/p>\n<p>Now, when it comes to most human beings &#8212; in that moment when they discover they&#8217;ve reached <em>the limit of their present possibilities<\/em> &#8212; most quit right there, saying: &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s all there is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, when individuals have a love for something, and they run into a natural and necessary limitation given their present level of development, they don&#8217;t say, &#8220;That&#8217;s as far as there is to go.&#8221; That person understands &#8212; because he or she can feel it living within them &#8212; <em>that something still greater exists<\/em>. They just have to wait for it to come to them. And they work! <strong>They work with their limitation, not their excellence<\/strong>. They work through what they <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> know &#8212; not trying to prove over and over again what they <em>do<\/em> know &#8212; because they&#8217;re agreeing to allow the principles, the perfection, the powers from the world above them to come into them, educate them, and ultimately elevate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You master something because you work at it in steps; and as you work at it, you recognize that you&#8217;ve taken yourself as far as you can take yourself with the possibilities that are present to you. Then what? 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