I love this...its a statement taken from one of my favourite authors.

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Put simply, the way to step outside of the Illusion of Fail­ure is to simply see everything as a part of your success. All things lead to your success, produce your success, are part of the process by which you experience your success.

Many people understand this intuitively. Scientists are among them. When they embark on an important experiment, they not only anticipate failure, they relish it. The pure scien­tist understands completely that a "failed" experiment has not "failed" at all but merely pointed the way to success.

Something working out "the way you wanted it to" is not the definition of success, and something "not working out the way you wanted it to" is not the definition of failure. Indeed, if you live a long life there will be times when you will claim the opposite to be true.

What you call many failures are actually successive ex­periences. And how can any experience which you call "suc­cessive" be a failure

Yet the Illusion of Failure is necessary in order to experi­ence the exhilaration of success. If you "succeed" at every­thing, then you will experience succeeding at nothing. You will simply feel that you are doing what you are doing, but you will not know it as success, nor experience the wonder and the glory of Who You Are, because there would be no contextual field within which to notice that.

If you throw a touchdown pass on the first attempt, that may be exhilarating, for sure. Yet if you throw a touchdown pass on every attempt, you would soon lose the excitement of it. It would mean nothing. There would be nothing but touch­down passes, and throwing them would be pointless, mean­ingless.

All of life moves in cycles. And it is these cycles that give meaning to life.

In fact, there is no such thing as failure. There is only suc­cess, manifesting in its many aspects. There is also no such thing as that which is not God. There is only God, manifest­ing in Its many aspects.

Do you see the parallel? Do you see the model?

This simple seeing changes everything. When this is clear to you, you will be immediately struck with gratitude and wonder. Gratitude for all of the "failures" of your life, and wonder that it took so long to recognize the treasures that you have been given.

You never fail to succeed

Taken from Neale Donald Walsh  - Communion with God