“The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.”
― Steve Maraboli
I believe that each minute brings choices, perhaps they are words in our life’s sentence. So many things call for our attention and so many people. We have only so much time and so many things to fill it with. Lately I can totally relate to the line in Peaceful Warrior that “there is never nothing going on”. The question is to what do we give our focus? This week I have been doing the big push to finishing the tarot pictures. As of tonight’s card, I have four left to go and I would really like to get a start on editing them and putting them in some form of book or set. Of course, my son just went back to school and there are a number of things that require attention there as well as house, partner, pets and friends both online and off. I find myself distractible at the best of times and this is incredible but still what sentence do I wish to write and how do I intend it to contribute to the whole story? When it comes down to it, people are more important than things so while I may limit my involvement with the outside world until I’m finished, I will still be there for loved ones. I can’t wait to see what the next paragraph will bring. 🙂
Blessings, G
“The inherent principles of human existence are summed up in the single law of solidarity. This is the golden rule of humanity, and may be formulated thus: no person can recognise or realise his or her own humanity except by recognising it in others and so cooperating for its realisation by each and all. No man can emancipate himself save by emancipating with him all the men about him.”
–Mikhail Bakunin
In other words we’re all in this together. The only way I can transcend is by acknowledging your journey and her journey and his journey and most importantly … see that guy across the way… the one whom I’ve had all that trouble with…man i’ve hated that guy — and you know what— in order to grow, to develop, to self-actualize I need to acknowledge that that is also his destiny and he deserves equal consideration. Sure takes all the fun out of hating… Not that it was ever a lot of fun. We even need to feel compassionate for people who do horrible things to others… Rapists, colonizers , etc, we need to understand them and feel what they’re feeling. Does that mean we have to condone their actions or even allow them. No, but maybe we need to understand them from the inside which just may help us to help them knock it off. It could just mean that we stop what they’re doing but we do it with understanding, that can be the hardest of all.
The Mayans have agreeting En Lak’ech ala k’in which means something along the lines of “You are another me”. If we truly believe this than we can begin to understand. Again that does not mean condone. How many times have we been unbelievably hard on ourselves. It simply acknowledges kinship and understanding.
Blessings, G
