Today's
Quotation:
That has been my personal relationship
with God-- a connection with the powerful, loving, wise
energy in all of us, in all creation.
It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our
lives, but it takes
commitment and practice.
We must be willing to move through all
our deepest
fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.
Shakti Gawain
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Today's
Meditation:
Teacher
after teacher all through history has taught that God is
within us, but for some reason, we choose not to
listen. Perhaps it's because so many people teach us
that we must believe in their vision of God, or perhaps it's
because the thought that God is so close to us-- actually a
part of us, and we are a part of God-- frightens us. No
matter why, it's quite a shame that we limit ourselves so
drastically by not acknowledging our own value and our own
place in this world.
Are
we worthy? Yes, we are. We're not the awful,
horrible people that some religious folk make us out to be--
we are all creations of the same force, and we're all
created on the same level. What we do with ourselves
helps to define who we are as time goes on, and many of us
never will become the people we were meant to be because we
let fear get in the way. When all is said and done,
though, we
all have the potential for the same relationship with the
holy in our lives if we only allow ourselves to search it
out.
Many
of the students I work with sabotage their own chances for
success because they talk themselves down, they don't
acknowledge their strengths and abilities. They look
at themselves as somehow unworthy and unable, and as long as
they do so they're dooming themselves to failure.
Others,
though, are willing to see their own value and work through
their problems. They face the problems head-on and
they deal with them, knowing that they must do so if they're
going to advance in life. These are the students who are setting themselves up for success.
If
God is omnipresent, as most argue he is, then God is in me,
always. The question is, how am I going to use that wise,
positive force-- whatever I perceive it to be-- for good in my life and the lives of others?
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Questions to ponder:
1. How can we allow ourselves to
look at God apart from religious doctrines?
2. If God truly is with each of us,
what does this say about our equality?
3. How can we tap into the love,
peace, and wisdom of God
in our everyday lives? |