THE DAILY SPARK

BECOME

I am NOT what has happened to me.  I am what I CHOOSE to become.

Quote by Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Source:  Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

REFLECTION:

  • Are you stuck in the story of what has happened to you?
  • What is that story?
  • What do you choose to become?
  • What does this person who is be-coming look like?
  • Embrace that person you are “choosing” to be…become.

A PRAYER

Painting found in the Monasterio de San Julian de Samos, Spain

A PRAYER

Refuse to fall down.

If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down.

If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that if be filled. 

You may be pushed down.  You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. 

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear.  The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.

FROM:  Clarissa Pinkola Estes, THE FAITHFUL GARDNER:  A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph. D. is an internationally know poet, psychoanalyst and author of the classic: Women Who run With the Wolves.  

REFLECTION:

  • Have you “fallen down?”
  • Have you refused to stay down?
  • Have you been able to lift your heart toward heaven?
  • Is there a situation (misery) that you are experiencing now or in the recent past that you can view the good that has come from it?
  • Are you listening?

TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Be crumbled.  So wild flowers will come up where you are.  You have been stony for too many years.  Try something different. 

Surrender.

Poem by RUMI

REFLECTION:

  • Have you been ‘stony’ for many years?
  • Have you been “crumbled?”
  • Are you willing to try something different?
  • What does surrender look like?
  • Try surrendering.