Today I become willing to see, feel and release the shame that keeps me tied to dysfunction. There was always a bad guy in my family of origin. We searched in cooperative silence for one person on whom to pin the family disease. When that person was removed either by death or circumstance, we found
I have the power to create, to bring forth, to manifest. My very presence measurably alters my environment. If merely by observing and being I affect what surrounds me, think how much more my thoughts, speech and actions are felt by others. Today, if I feel that I am disappearing, as if I am insignificant
Today I am able to separate the disease from the person. People change – I have changed. The same person who was a terror to me in childhood could possibly be a friend today. We were all sick, no one really escaped our family disease. The disease that kept us from one another in childhood
I will not use the shortcomings in this world as an excuse for the shortcomings in me. My path is not to imitate what is wrong, but to lead in what is right. Each positive example I set by actually embodying or being what I believe in improves this world. I am willing to lead.
I will carry a song within my heart today. I will feel the rhythm of my soul’s energy pulsing through me. No one but me has access to my soul. If I do not invite it into expression then it will not, cannot come; I am the vehicle through which it finds expression. I am
Today I recognize that it is actually possible to talk things over. To be direct and honest with a person with the intention of working out a problem seems difficult and risky. I still feel that my honest feelings will be met with hostility and that somehow I will end up creating a mess. I
I am part of an exciting period in history. Those who have given up on the world are not seeing what I am seeing. I see spirit at work. I see deep world cleansing. I see people who are more aware and willing to look at themselves and society. The barricades that used to divide
I am a living expression of the divine energy, a piece of God. This is how God meant it to be, how spirit works through flesh, how the world is an expression of the divine. I will look within for soul. Long ago all men were divine, but mankind so abused the privilege that Brahma,
Today I will light one candle and that candle is myself. I will keep my own flame burning. I turn my sight to light and love and goodness. For today there is no need to be discouraged. So what if I see and identify all the ills of society and diagnose it as sick-what good