7.28.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
Wholeness of the personality is achieved when the main pairs of opposites are relatively differentiated, that is, when both parts of the total psyche, consciousness and the unconscious, are linked together in a living relation. But the dynamic gradient, the flow of psychic life, is not endangered, for the unconscious can never be made wholly conscious and always has the greater store of energy. The wholeness is always relative and gives us something to work on as long as we live.
'Personality, as the complete realisation of our whole being, is an unattainable ideal. But unattainability is no argument against the ideal, for ideals are only signposts, never the goal'.
– Jolande Jacobi, The Psychology of C. G. Jung
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner on gratitude:
“If you just take a minute to stop, I guarantee you can find at least one reason to smile. If for some reason you can’t find a reason to smile, then that’s probably the best time to be the reason for somebody else’s smile.”
Intention of the Day
My intention today is to find joy in the ordinary and gratitude in the unexpected.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
7.21.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
The awareness that the universe is dynamic gives to the individual the quiet assurance that wherever he may be located he is in immediate candidacy for the strength that comes from a boundless vitality. This fact makes for a universal kinship among all living things. The blessing of self-consciousness makes possible a deliberate relatedness out of which arise all of the joyous overtones of human relations. To understand another human being even dimly is to bring to a point of focus an Infinite Resource.
– Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
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Lao Tzu on being:
“When you realize that nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to bring my full attention to every task and interaction today..
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
7.14.25
Meditation Mondays
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
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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
7.7.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
– C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children
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Lao Tzu on unity:
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to infuse love into everything I do today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
6.30.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
There is a curious logic in human experience that finally permits no man to escape the good and the bad. Often the event in which the individual is involved seems to carry with it an order which is independent of merit or demerit. This indeterminateness seems to suggest that in all living there is an element which may be regarded as random in the sense that it is outside of an orderly pattern of reaping and sowing. To be alive is to be involved in events, some of which take their rise uniquely in the individual's experience and some of which flow into the life, apparently without rhyme or reason. To accept all experience as raw material out of which the human spirit distils meanings and values is a part of the meaning of maturity.
– Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
Quote
Bob Marley on flow:
“The day you stop racing is the day you win the race.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to expect good things to come my way today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
6.23.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
Whatever the circumstances in which you work… your ultimate success depends on only one element, and that is yourself. It is a fallacy to suppose that you can get the greatest results with a minimum of effort. There is no such thing as getting more than you put into anything. You expect a man who is guiding you through the mountains to save your energy and tell you the best way, but you can’t get any farther in that mountain than you can and will walk. My one idea is to direct you to make the right sort of effort, for if you do you are bound to win out..
– Kimo Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw
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Dogen on trusting yourself:
“Do not follow the idea of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to contribute to the well-being of others in any way I can today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
6.16.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Alan Watts on the flow of life:
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to give freely of my time, energy and kindness to others today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
6.9.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. Taking responsibility for our actions, choices, and personal development enables us to create the future we desire rather than leaving it to chance or external factors. Embrace personal agency, actively pursue your goals, and harness the power of self-reflection to shape your own destiny.
– William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Eckhart Tolle on presence:
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to approach today with a curious and open mind.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val