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Today's
quotation:
Cherish
your visions. Cherish
your ideals. Cherish
the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms
in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful
conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you
will but remain true to them, your world will at last be
built.
James
Allen
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Today's
Meditation:
"Cherish"
is such a wonderful word! The feeling that it
describes is an incredibly positive one that includes
recognition of how wonderful something or someone is,
appreciation for that something or someone, and gratitude
that the thing or person is a part of our lives.
When we cherish something, we have the greatest of respect
for it and we see it in only the brightest of
light. Cherishing something or someone isn't about
possession, but about appreciation.
There
are parts of yourself that you most definitely should
cherish, yet most of us are so highly critical of
ourselves that we don't allow ourselves to cherish parts
of ourselves. But we do have valuable visions, and
we do have ideals and thoughts and dreams and hopes and
desires. All these things are important parts of who
we are, yet we tend to discount their value simply because
they are parts of ourselves. We tend to be much more
likely to appreciate the visions and ideals of others than
to do the same with our own, and that often keeps our
visions and ideals from becoming reality.
James
talks about these things almost as if they're part of a
garden. If we appreciate our gardens and treat them
tenderly and feed them and care for them, great things
will grow from them. If we neglect our gardens, we
might get a few tomatoes or cucumbers, but the garden
never will reach its full potential. Likewise, if we
appreciate and cherish our own visions and beauty, if we
nourish them with positive thoughts and ideas, then we
will see wonderful things grow from us as we make our
marks on our own worlds, as we share the wonderful parts
of who we are with others. If we are going to build
our own worlds, then let's do so with the appropriate
appreciation for our own visions and beauty.
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