July 23rd, 2017

July 23rd, 2017


Affirmation:  Many opportunities to make choices will arise today. I can be thoughtful and make choices that will lead to my greater wholeness.

Today, I am willing to focus, push forward, and go the distance.

I am trustworthy. I can rely on myself.


Word of the Day: malfeasance (n):

1. Law. The performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).

crocodilian (adj):

1. hypocritical; insincere.

2. of, like, or pertaining to a crocodile.

3. any reptile of the order Crocodylia, compromising the true crocodiles and the alligators, caimans, and gavials.

hydra (n):

1. a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.

The Mystery of the Moment

To the mind there is such a thing as news,

whereas to the inner knowing, it is all

in the middle of its happening.

To doubters, this is a pain.

To believers, it's gospel.

To the lover and the visionary,

it is life as it's being lived.

You Are as You Are

You do not resemble anyone.

You are not the bride or the groom.

You do not fit in a house with anyone.

You have left the closed-in corner

where you lived. Domestic animals

get ridden to work. Not you.

You are as you are,

an indescribable message on the air.

Fierce Courtesy

The connection to the Friend

is secret and very fragile.

The image of the Friendship

is in how you love,

the grace and the delicacy,

the subtle talking together

in full prostration, outside of time.

When you are there,

remember the fierce courtesy

of the one with you.

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Being OK With Being OK

Resisting what is is a common source of human suffering. Thus, when we are not feeling "OK," trying to fight or resist this state is futile at best. It used to be that people felt uncomfortable or ashamed about struggling and kept their struggles to themselves. Nowadays, struggling has become so normalized, that we feel guilty when we are not struggling because everyone around us is. We have become conditioned to struggling and being in a state and space of struggle. We tell ourselves that to not struggle is to not fit in. We tell ourselves that if we are not struggling, we are not working hard enough, we are not trying hard enough, we are not being "good" enough.

To be human is to experience change. It is to experience cycles. It is to ebb and to flow, to wax and to wane. Nobody is "OK" 100% of the time and nobody is "not OK" all the time, either. Let us not lose ourselves in the details, rules, "shoulds," and comparisons that we forget where we want to go (and where we are); who we want to be (and who we are); and how we want to feel (and what we are feeling and experiencing).

Today, remember that just as it is OK to be not ok, it is OK to be OK!