“I choose the second place to gain the first.”
First, second, third or last place – this ranking business is irrelevant to those who live inspired by the truth that is revealed within. Everything you look upon with love, with tenderness, with joy is true precisely because of your reception of them in love and tenderness and joy. That is your creative power.
In a way today’s statement is an alert message. It reminds you to not take an appearance, circumstance or situation at face value but to look for the light in it and to link up with that light.