Meditation: Let Me Enter This Day

Let me enter this day
As The One who is untouched by all of life’s burdens
The pure manifestation of love
The infinite being and consciousness
That is already breathing me, living me.

Let me enter this day
As a mirrored reflection - better still
A unabashed source
Of Love, moving out
Toward each and every moment I meet
Along the way.

Beyond whatever limits
Being present in this particular form
May seem to impose,
Nothing ever really
Slows the pulse of Love.

Let me enter this day
Willing to receive and to offer
The beating heart of Love.

Letting Go Of Labels - Part 2 of 2

When all in the world understand beauty to be beautiful, then ugliness exists. When all understand goodness to be good, then evil exists. The Tao-Te Ching

The power of the human mind, body and spirit is magnified when energy flows freely through each, unencumbered by division, definition, categorization or constraint. When we allow ourselves to live in a world of definition, of labels, of preference, we restrict the flow of life energy through our bodies.

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Letting Go Of Labels - Part 1 of 2

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ~Emerson

Synchronicities abound. I’ve observed over the past few years that the lives, learnings and wins of my closest friends often parallel my own. In his blog, my friend Clayton writes about his recent return to an omnivorous diet. I, too, was vegetarian for many years, up until about 2 months ago, when I allowed the label of ‘vegetarian’ to pass through me. The choice for me was not one made for health reasons. Nor was it made because I felt compelled to consume flesh once again. Instead, my choice was made because I recognized that by identifying myself as ‘vegetarian’, I was closing myself off, energetically and spiritually, to other realms of experience.

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