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
Our lack of meaningful ritual causes us to reach for objects outside ourselves for a sense of grounding. If we remain outwardly focused with our meaning existing outside of us, we may experience a spiritual crisis. One of the ways to reconnect with my self is through rituals in my daily life. Rituals give me
Today I know that I need not like everything about someone to enjoy having them in my life. As a child I may have felt defective in some fundamental way. No matter what I did to improve myself and love those around me, the situation only got worse. This made my self-esteem drop and my
Today I let myself have my angry feelings without letting them have me. In the past because anger was a complete no-no, I learned to stuff my own anger so that even I no longer knew what I was feeling. This cost me a great deal in relating to the world because natural anger is
When I justify myself and my position in life through anger and blame, I miss the opportunity to grow spiritually. I build a wall around myself for protection, but unfortunately, in keeping others out, I keep myself out as well. I get stuck in my rationalizations and use them to hide my own fears. Fear
What is it about the process that is more alive than the capture of the goal? Perhaps it is the state of passive awareness that allows spontaneity to continually be experienced in the pursuit. I oftentimes define the goal, but do not as strictly define every moment of how I will go about achieving it.
Today I accept the futility of carrying on a constant argument with the past. It is my responsibility to work through and release what was painful in my past and is in my way today. No matter how much I may wish certain things had been different, I have no power to change them. Once
Today I recognize the futility of passing on old dysfunctional patterns. It is pointless to try to correct the present with methods that didn’t even work in the past. I really can change and recognizing my desire to control those near to me is the beginning of that change. Now I can see myself in
Today I accept that recovery has changed my baseline of experience. When I release trauma, terror and rage, they are really gone. I used to have those emotions on top, and they could surface and apply themselves to any situation. Psychodramatically and therapeutically, I have blown them out of my system, and through sharing, my