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Eric Butterworth - Don't go through life; grow through life · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to The Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern,
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  and let's jump straight into today's quote from Eric
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  Butterworth, a Unity minister and author who spent his life
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  teaching about human potential and spiritual growth.
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  He once said don't go through life, grow through life. 7 words
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  but 2 completely different approaches to living.
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  Going through life means you're just surviving.
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  Days are happening to you. You wake up, handle what comes
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  at you and go to sleep and then repeat.
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  You're present, but you're not learning.
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  You're busy, but you're not evolving.
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  You're alive, but you're not growing.
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  Growing through life means something completely different.
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  It means you're extracting lessons from everything that
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  happens. The wins teach you.
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  The losses teach you. The mundane days teach you too.
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  Going through is passive. Growing through is active.
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  Going through life, you experience a set back and say,
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  that was terrible. Growing through life?
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  You've asked, what can I learn from this?
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  Going through life, you repeat the same patterns for years.
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  Growing through life, you notice the patterns and you break them.
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  When you're going through life, you're the same person at 60
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  that you were at 20, just older, more wrinkled.
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  But growing through life, you're constantly becoming someone new,
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  wiser, stronger, and more capable.
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  The difference isn't what happens to you, it's what you do
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  with what happens to you. Butterworth understood that life
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  gives you the raw material. Growth is what you build from
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  it. So here's the question.
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  Are you going through life or growing through life?
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  Because the same experiences that make one person better can
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  make another person better. The difference is whether you're
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  learning or just enduring. Don't just go through it, grow
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  through it. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.