Tian Dayton

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

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