Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - July

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July 20

Lessons From Nature

I had the opportunity to observe salmon swim upstream to lay their eggs in the same place as where they were born. They jumped powerful cascades to reach a higher level. If they missed, they tried again. Perhaps it is the fight against powerful forces that stimulates them. Salmon have an instinctive goal. Humans have an intellectual goal. Like salmon, we are stimulated by the resistances we meet to strive ever higher, to get where we know we belong. Another thing we can learn from the salmon is that they never jump two levels at once. Easy does it. One level at a time.