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.
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