Today's Meditation

I enjoy the Todays Meditation that is posted in the opening page of this site. Without a doubt it taps perfectly into psyche and speaks volumes. The words written reach to the core of your readers and those that acknowledge the message bless it and then themselves for understanding. Bless you for your wisdom and your sharing of it.

Thanks for the feedback; I sometimes find it difficult to choose them! When that happens, I go with whatever message seems to move me at the moment.

Parenting has been on my mind lately. I have a lot of sympathy for children, and think there's no heavier responsibility, nor more difficult task, than to guide the development of a child's psyche, to enable her to successfully navigate her way through the material world with her Spirit intact.

So true is your reply. We must not forget that we are all children and that parenting goes further than the responsibility assigned to those that bear offspring. For those of us that are adult, we have the responsibility of being the parent to ourselves. Much conditioning we can overcome to become our own fruit. And the fruit, we must enjoy.

Thank you Rogue, I hear you.

What we need is to record the daily meditations in here so we can comment and/or discuss them.

So here is today's:

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~ Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

I think we can all relate to situations in our lives that have led us to reflect on what remains after we have faced a great challenge. I know I personally have had the opportunity to do this in the last 24 hours. When we shift our focus from the actual event to what we can learn or gain from the experience, it truly does raise our awareness of who we are.

"To forgive and forget is love in action. But we must learn to forgive ourselves as well as others; otherwise the process of releasing this burden does not begin or progress" ~ Anthony Strano

In my opinion, forgiveness is a kind of release mechanism. We release negative energy we are storing in ourselves associated with a perceived wrongdoing. We free ourselves from an energetic cord that holds us back from moving forwards and ties us to our past. When we rid ourselves of this stale energy, it is like taking a new breath in and filling those previously starved cells with life. At the same time, we let go of the other person involved freeing them to have a different relationship with us. As we grow through this process, we come to the realisation that we have to forgive ourselves as well for the choices we have made and for blocking the flow of universal love in our own lives.

Described beautifully Goth, thank you,

Thanks

Here's today's meditation:

You can only be controlled if you think you are a victim; if you believe somebody can do something to you.

~ Barbara Hand Clow

And now for something literary...

"Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively.
"No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference."
-- Terry Pratchett, "Witches Abroad"

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ”
~C.C. Scott

Hey, I really like that one!

“The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found” ~ Miguel de Unamuno

Skepticism is not a dirty word - when done right

Skepticism is not a dirty word - when done right

Wow... that sounds like something I'd think! I love it when that happens.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.
Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and the universe knows what it's doing.
~ Author Unknown

Witch?

No, I used that icon for the light on her wand. Lol.

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. (Samuel Butler)

Notice that I don't attribute the quote on the main page -- I want the emphasis to be on the message, not the messenger. Besides, that keeps someone from dismissing a good idea because of who may have said it.

Clever thinking