Tian Dayton

Today I know that what I accumulate in my life is of no account if I lose my spirit, my self, my soul. I can enjoy the things of the world when I see them for what they are and do not ask them to be more than they are or to give me what they cannot give. They are meant to enhance my pleasure, not to be the source of it. It is my knowledge and awareness of that part of me which is infinite that is my true source of peace, pleasure, happiness and serenity. When I am in full possession of this inner self, which is also connected to the universal self, then I am in a position to take pleasure in the world around me.

I am that which never dies.

We brought nothing into this world. And it is certain we carry nothing out of it.
1 Timothy 6:7

I am not an island onto myself. Isolating myself from those I am intimate with is impossible. All I accomplish through this self-imposed separation is the illusion of isolation. I share space with those who are close to me. Each of us knows what is going on, each of us feels the atmosphere of the other. I will be willing to know how I affect people today on both a verbal and, even more important, on a nonverbal level. I will take responsibility not only for what I say, but for who I am in the alive and vibrating feeling atmosphere around me. The atmosphere around me is alive and carries my silent message to all whom I encounter; it is what others I am in relationship with know and live with.

I own what I think and feel.

Now if you apply the wave-particle metaphor to human relationship and think that we are both particle, individuals in our own space and time and waves, things that can overlap and combine with others, then you have a basis for seeing how we could get “into” relationships with other people.
Dianne Zohar

Today I accept and understand that life is both pain and joy. Sometimes recovery creates the impression that one day I should be free of pain, and I feel “unrecovered” when I still have problems in my life. The goal is not to be free from pain, which is a given in life, but to live with pain differently. In recovery the real lesson is not how to avoid problems but how to work them through and let them go more quickly. Problems are a part of life, but are not all of life. There is as much happiness and beauty in life as ugliness. Recovery is about not avoiding either – it’s about eliminating old debris so I can experience life in the present and gain wisdom from a painful past.

I accept life on its own terms.

Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
William Blake

This will be my only lifetime as the person I am today. I will only pass through this day once. What I do with this day I will only be able to do once. If I waste the entire day, it will be a day wasted; if I walk blindly through it, it will be a day unseen; if I hate it, dread it or wish it away, it will be recorded in my brain as a terrible day. In any case, I will never have this day back to do over again. How I conduct myself in it will be all that I have to carry away with me; how the way that the moment transpires will be what is written into the diary of my personal experience, the diary contained within my mind.

This is my only opportunity to live this day.

Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again.
Author unknown

Today I accept my true nature as a free person – free to create my own life not based on the expectations of others, ideas in books or images in the media. I am here to explore the mysteries of the universe that are contained within my own being. When I take a spiritual path and study who I am and my own divine nature, I am exploring the universe. It
takes more courage for me to go inward than to traverse the world because my interior reality is the most profoundly unknown to me. Diving into my own unconscious is no less scary than diving into the depths of the sea. This is a terrible and frightening journey, the journey inward, but it is filled with more beauty than I have ever known. At the other end of the night sweats, the labyrinth, the terror, is space, peace and a divine sort of nothing.

I like my own freedom.

I am tired of ruling over slaves. Last words of Frederick the Great