Tian Dayton

Today I do not need to have everything I love in my life at every moment. Because I care about something, a relationship, a house, a situation, does not mean that I am going to lose it. I trust now that people, places and things in life come and go. That is the nature of it all. Nothing I can do will change that. When I learn to roll with the natural vicissitudes of life, they somehow feel less threatening. I am more willing to allow people, places and things be removed from me because I have come to understand that they will return in the same or different forms. Today I know that that is true; it is the nature of life. But it is a loss that is constantly filled with gain.

I let go so that I can be filled again.

Nothing in the world lasts save eternal change.
Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

I will not resist my animal nature today. If I am truly a part of a divine plan, then all of me is meant to be here, both my animal and spirit sides have soul potential encoded into them. I will not sever myself from my own humanity in order to become something beyond myself-my becoming is in my being, my soul and my person are of the same stuff.

I balance my physical and soul nature.

I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular – shall I suck warm blood, hold my tail high, walk with my footprints precisely over the prints of my hands?-but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive. The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should. And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel’s: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
Annie Dillard

Today I am aware that it is more difficult to let go of a painful, dysfunctional situation or relationship than a happy, healthy one. When a relationship or situation is going wrong, I become entangled in the mess, always feeling that if I did just a little bit more, if I tried a little harder, if I changed something . . . then it would work. When I come from this insecure place, it really never does work out . . . all of my frantic efforts only serve to complicate an already complicated situation and my best intentions fall on deaf ears. Letting go does not mean losing; it simply means that I am willing for change to occur. Sometimes the change is so subtle I only know it took place because I feel better; sometimes it is more pronounced.

I can let go and allow movement to occur.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach

I have two aspects: the masculine and the feminine, the animus and anima. Both male and female unite within me. I will bring both these parts of myself into balance because it is important to my mental health. I can be intuitive and nurturing simultaneously with allowing for healthy aggression and competence. I am biologically equipped for all of these characteristics to varying degrees. Today’s world requires that I be actively in touch with all these qualities-every one of them is important if I wish to be the kind of person that modern lifestyles require. When I feel myself getting out of balance, I will set about restoring the qualities within me and within my day that I am missing.

I am the masculine and the feminine.

This marriage of the masculine with the feminine has to take place in all of our hearts and minds, whether we are male or female. The mystical and practical health it brings is the goal of being human, the basis and energy of all true transformation.
Andrew Harvey

Today I recognize that spirituality is not so much a question of doing as of being. It is not where I am going to as much as where I am coming from that counts. God-centered living is a space that I live in, in my mind. There is nothing to prove by doing. There is no circumstance to manipulate that can show that I am close to or far from Higher Power.
Living in the presence of light, love and compassion is what it is all about. I can take a thousand actions that look right, but if the heart that directs my hand is coming from an empty place, then all of those actions have less spiritual impact than just one that comes from a spiritual and loving place.

I am being where I want to be.

The things we know best are those we have not learned.
Vauvenargues