7.14.25

Thought

If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing. The secret and the sacred are sisters. Our times suffer from such a loss of the sacred because our respect for the secret has completely vanished. Our modern technology of information is one of the great destroyers of privacy. We need to shelter that which is deep and reserved within us. This is why there is such hunger in modern life for the language of the soul. The soul is a shy presence.

The hunger for the language of the soul shows that the soul has been forced to recede to private areas; only there can it mind its own texture and rhythm. The modern world, by trumpeting the doctrine of self-sufficiency, has denied the soul and forced it to eke out its existence on the margins.

– John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World

Quote

Eckhart Tolle on presence:: 

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”

Intention of the Day 

My intention is to look for the good in people and situations today.

What’s your intention today? 

Happy Monday,

Val