Today I can live with degrees of distance in my close relationships. Intimacy no longer means enmeshment to me. If I am not emotionally sitting on someone else’s lap, it doesn’t mean I am not getting along with them. That kind of super closeness has a claustrophobic feeling for me now. It worries me because
I have an identity behind the roles that I play in my life, a me that is constant, unchanging and connected to universal oneness or soul. Today I will allow myself to breathe deeply, detach from whatever role I am playing and rest in an eternal sense of self. I am more than my roles.
Today when I get a very strong intuitive message, I will listen to it. I may not be right but I will not discount the feeling or the impulse, knowing that intuition plays an important part in my life. My intuition is real. It is a combination of feelings and instincts that help me to
I will have proper reverence for all that is alive. When I lose my ability to respect and stand in awe of the mystery of life, I lose my soul along with it. I become a modern person in search of a soul, too often looking for it where it cannot be found. I become
Today I will remember that when it comes to spirituality the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. When I open my mind and heart to what can be in life, possibilities and good feelings seem to build on each other and increase. When I get caught in negativity, it also increases and I
Sharing my deepest shame helps me break out of my sense of isolation and disconnection from others. Secrets that I carry in the silence of my mind and heart divide me from myself and others. When I break my own silence, I crack the hard shell surrounding me and let in the light. I take
Today I realize it is my awareness of an eternal truth that opens those doors of knowing to me. While I deny the reality of anything beyond what I can see and touch that reality is in turn denied to me. If I rest quietly in the joyous awareness that there exists an energy of
How fantastic it is to imagine a creator, a force behind this wondrous mystery of life. Could it really be possible? Could life and death still be life? Am I just another aspect of the cycle of life, of soul? Who is this power that creates such beauty? This mystery is beyond my powers of
Today I recognize the real function that worry serves in my life. When I ruminate over a problem, engage in it, cry, feel pain and lose myself, I feel more alive; I actually experience myself as more in tune and alert when I am upset. I will look for a better path today. Nothing in