Tian Dayton

I can deepen in my knowledge of God-in fact, I am meant to do just that. The sphere of God consciousness is part of the mystery of life, the mystery of me. One of the vehicles I have been given through which to learn is my mind and the way that my mind interprets my personal experience. My life is my experience of my life, my interpretation. My
life has meaning and beauty to the extent that I possess those qualities. I see from within. I am an heuristic study of soul. By studying myself, I study the mysteries of the All-Soul. Through rigorous self-honesty and an open attitude toward what is really going on inside me, I can study humankind. I am a piece of the mystery – in learning about me, I learn about the deeper layers of the universe.

I will study myself.

God is an intelligible sphere known to the mind-each of us is a part of that mystery.
Joseph Campbell

Today I accept myself as I am. When I live by a self-flattering set of images and deny my own negative qualities, I never truly know myself. Consequently I never truly know others. To only know what is flattering about myself keeps me forever on the surface of life and in bondage to my own unwillingness to see. Accepting what is the worst in me tends to
transform it in some way because I no longer feed it by keeping it in darkness. When I expose it to light, it changes. When I will only know a self-aggrandizing side of myself, that is all I can know in others. When I am able to live with all of it – to know myself fully – then I develop wisdom and acceptance and I can see who another person is.

I will live with all of me.

anyone lived in pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did e. e. cummings

I will relax and let it happen. I will be open to new forms of thinking, being and learning. This world is changing rapidly, and part of my keeping up with the times will simply lie in my ability to float with and toward new states of awareness. I will open my mind to something new today.

I am alive at an exciting time.

If you find it hard to keep up with all the new scientific breakthroughs, you might find solace in the “hundredth monkey” theory. Although widely disputed, it claims that if enough members of a species learn something new, a point of saturation is reached whereupon the entire species will begin to understand it spontaneously. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake formulated a hypothesis . . . that new behaviors or concepts can spread through a species spontaneously,  due to a vibratory process called “morphic resonance.” Practically speaking, this means that if we just relax and wait awhile, enough people will read up on the idea of morphic resonance, and we won’t have to. Sometimes it is okay to let ourselves be monkey number one hundred one. Crazy wisdom says, “Let’s take turns.”
Wes Nisker

Today I see that in spiritual growth I lose my life to find it. This is just the opposite of establishing my identity in a worldly way, which lies in surrounding myself with things that I want to represent me. In this way I define and seek a sense of self through representation. I know now that I cannot find me in a reflection of myself. When I do this, my eyes are constantly focused outward, and I forget that it is through an inner gazing that I come to know who I am and what life is all about. The sense of loss I may experience when I cease looking for my true identity in objects outside myself disappears when I look within for my life and meaning.

I let go of my smaller self to know my larger self.

In my end is my beginning.
T. S. Eliot

I will open my life to the act of giving today. Giving and receiving are the same channel. When I am able to truly give, I have tuned into the channel, opened the pipeline, through which I receive. When I love another, I am loving the self-giving and receiving love. The act of giving is the key. In giving I receive, in loving I open to experience love-the world is impartial. If I open the vessel of me, it will be filled.

I give and I love.

The essential truth about the existence of man is in the Gospels. What we are, what we hope, what we need, is contained in the Gospels. But they can be difficult. An easier bridge to their meaning is St. Francis of Assisi. Simply, Saint Francis says the key to the purpose of life is giving. In giving, you find happiness. You find peace. If you give, you find you are serving your purpose in life. In loving, you find love.
Franco Zeffirelli from “The Meaning of Life”