Daily Reflection

Today's Reflection: October 21

Jumping chasm

 

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.

I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world

are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,

and if they can’t find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

To Be Someone
October 20
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Gabrielle Chanel
A Wonderful Life
October 19
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Colette
Ocean of Light
October 18
I saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death, But an infinite ocean of light and love flowed over the ocean of darkness. George Fox
Fierce Landscapes
October 17
The spiritual function of fierce terrain (in the apophatic tradition) is to bring us to the end of ourselves, to the abandonment of language and the relinquishment of ego.  A…
The Uses of Sorrow
October 16
The Uses of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness   It took me years to understand that…
Show your Soul
October 15
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from…
Emanate Love
October 14
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love. Ram Dass
Faithful in all Things
October 13
“Believe me there is nothing like being faithful to God and preserving in good, once we have undertaken to do so. ‘Because you have been faithful in a little, I…
Reverence the Creation
October 12
Every time you pick up a piece of trash along the way, say to yourself, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the house of the Lord." Edward Hays
Angel for Every Creature
October 11
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." The Talmud
Fall in Love
October 10
Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love, in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.…
A Common Language
October 9
There are seven billion story-filled people in the world: all of us talkers, all of us listeners.   We live in a breadth of conditions almost unimaginable to each other.…
Absolutely Clear
October 7
Absolutely Clear Don't surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut deep.   Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.   Something missing…

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