Contemplations

Thank you for the gift of this day. Please enable me to see challenges as gifts and as opportunities to grow. Allow me to realize that in the struggle I become stronger, more resilient, and expand my life perspective.

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Everything moves in a dynamic universe. Nothing exists forever in its original form. Resistance is the only thing that makes it hurt.

—sh

We can deny it. We can hide from it. We can resist it. Or we can move with it. Change just is.

—sh

We can never be whole if we give more of ourselves to others than we give to ourselves.

—sh

Many people wish they could see the future. We are here to create it.

—sh

Everything I do affects everything. Me and you — aware or not — what we do affects us all.

—sh

The soul isn’t something we possess. It’s something we express.

—sh

Manifestation is not receiving. It is becoming.

—sh

Discipline is a form of self-love — the way we say, in action rather than words, that our life is worth our kindness.

—sh

Self-love exists between selfishness and selflessness. I have lived closer to one shore than the other, and called it virtue.

—sh

We can best change the world by changing ourselves. You can’t change yourself by force. Only by presence.

—sh

Darkness exists in gradients, calibrated by the light within and the light around us.

—sh

When the belief changes, the world we inhabit changes with it.

—sh

We can never move forward when looking backward.

—sh

Becoming Rooted

“I am not becoming less powerful by laying down what was never mine to carry.”