Today I recognize the futility of trying to change someone else’s behavior. If I postpone my own growth and happiness until such time when others close to me recognize what I am doing, approve of it and act as I wish they would, I might wait forever. If someone else could act better, they would
I will not hide my shame. All living persons, even animals, carry shame. It is a fundamental human feeling. When I carry shame in secret, it distorts my inner world. It makes me feel as if I have something bad inside of me that I need to keep hidden, something that, if it were known,
Today I see that truth and love are constant and more powerful than illusion. It is my belief in the illusion that keeps me powerless. I am a child of God in the most real sense. This is a status that I share with my parents, my grandparents, my children- even plants and animals. There
I will lose myself in a task today. Oftentimes I seek soul by sitting and ruminating in an effort to comprehend the mystery, but the self is too full of paradox to understand in any one way. Losing myself in meaningful activity is another way to journey toward soul. I thrive on a sense of
Today I accept that life is full of transitions. As a child, change came to mean trauma. I never knew what to expect in my dysfunctional home. Would all be calm and loving or would everyone be frantic, tense and at each other’s throats? Either was possible. Both were unpredictable and frightening-the good, because if
Soul is not some disembodied entity-it is part of me, part of my struggle. When I bring deep conflicts housed in my unconscious to a conscious level, I am making more of soul conscious as well. Every aspect of life or thought has soul present within it. Conflict that is locked in a frozen state
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
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
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,