Today I accept myself as I am. When I live by a self-flattering set of images and deny my own negative qualities, I never truly know myself. Consequently I never truly know others. To only know what is flattering about myself keeps me forever on the surface of life and in bondage to my own
I can deepen in my knowledge of God-in fact, I am meant to do just that. The sphere of God consciousness is part of the mystery of life, the mystery of me. One of the vehicles I have been given through which to learn is my mind and the way that my mind interprets my
Today I accept my true nature as a free person – free to create my own life not based on the expectations of others, ideas in books or images in the media. I am here to explore the mysteries of the universe that are contained within my own being. When I take a spiritual path
This will be my only lifetime as the person I am today. I will only pass through this day once. What I do with this day I will only be able to do once. If I waste the entire day, it will be a day wasted; if I walk blindly through it, it will be
Today I accept and understand that life is both pain and joy. Sometimes recovery creates the impression that one day I should be free of pain, and I feel “unrecovered
I am not an island onto myself. Isolating myself from those I am intimate with is impossible. All I accomplish through this self-imposed separation is the illusion of isolation. I share space with those who are close to me. Each of us knows what is going on, each of us feels the atmosphere of the
Today I know that what I accumulate in my life is of no account if I lose my spirit, my self, my soul. I can enjoy the things of the world when I see them for what they are and do not ask them to be more than they are or to give me what
In my quiet moments I allow myself to fully entertain my own thoughts. I learn and grow in layers. When I have come finally to decode what feels like garbled data and to understand more clearly what I am seeing, feeling and hearing, then I am ready to move through another layer. Some days, learning
Today I will do what is in front of me. Rather than make my plan for the day on a formless future, I will do that task which is nearest to my hand. I cannot live in days that have not happened yet. Hard as I try, I cannot put my boots on and take