It is often the elders among us who understand the value of rituals and who help to anchor them. Older people who understand how to be elders, who are able to pass on encouragement and strength rather than despair and judgment, are gifts to society. Elders who have worked through their own failures and inadequacies
Today I know when I am anxious or in pain. The reason that I know this is because (1) I am no longer stuffing my anxiety so that I can’t feel it or anything else and (2) I am not constantly living with a low level of discomfort. When anxiety comes up for me, it
I will reach above and beyond myself today. I will move upward into my spirit nature. Why should I wait for life to happen to me, for some other person to take responsibility for making my life what it can and should be? I am the person to whom my life has been given. Just
Today I know that I understand others to the degree that I understand myself. It is through my search for self-knowledge that I learn what I need to know to get along with another person. It is through looking inward that I come to perceive what is around me. My quiet observation and willingness to
If I were to choose one safe path to last me into forever, to lead me safely through this world, it would be the path of love. To love another, I first create that feeling within me (love doesn’t come from nowhere). When I direct it outward, I generate it within me. I am at
Today I will allow myself to enter in. I will not hold back or keep myself on the sidelines. There is no gain for me in affecting a pose of humility that, if the truth were told, is a combination of fear and insecurity. Today my humility will express itself in my willingness to risk,
Soul cannot shine through a distorted lens; it cannot operate through a dishonest life, a life filled with pretense and subtle lies. I will be honest and genuine in the way I live. I won’t pretend to be what I am not in order to look good. Living well requires a constant vigilance, constant awareness.
Today I understand that maturity and taking responsibility for myself begin early in childhood. Each thing I learned to do for myself as a child taught me that I could take care of myself. My dependence on my mother physically had the power both to sustain my life and to crush my spirit. The illusion
I am a survivor of future shock. I have lived through a period of profound, disorienting social, political and worldwide change. My life has moved quickly, so quickly that my head sometimes spins and I feel lost. Today, rather than get lost in being lost, I will use my day to begin to be found.