Tian Dayton

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”

Today I will open myself to receive. Much of what I experience as lack in my life is really my inability to see life as constantly giving to me. When I put myself into a receptive state, what blocks do I place in my own path? Do I feel worthy of a healthy, happy life? Do I trust that it is possible for life to work out? Am I able to visualize a good life?
Am I willing to forego my attachment to negativity and control so that my life can be fully positive? Really this universe is already abundant.
Nature is constantly striving to produce-to meet my needs. My ability to open myself to receive this generosity and abundance is how I clear the channels for it to come to me. My ability to recognize it and to be grateful for it is how I hold it in my life.

I open myself to receive all good that is coming to me.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill

I will look beyond time and space into the infinite nature of the universe, into soul. What I see around me is not all there is to this world. Call me crazy, but I see more. I trust my eyes and I trust my heart. What I see with my mind and my heart are just as real for me as what I see with my eyes. Reality is multi-layered. When I am still and quiet it unfolds itself to me. Its wisdom and meaning seep effortlessly into my pores. I come to understand truth and soul because I sense its presence within me. I am a part of this divine mystery of life. I am indivisible with the whole, a cog in an ever-turning wheel of time, beyond which lies eternity, more life, more me, more it.

I see beyond time and space.

The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in this world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson