THE DAILY SPARK

TIPPING POINT

Tipping point that Spring is coming!

We are sitting atop a unique moment in history, a major tipping point.  The time we are in provides singular opportunities that can be seized and made use of with every breath.  There is only one way to do that.  It is to embody, in our lives as they are unfolding here and now, our deepest values and our understanding of what is most important – and share it with each other, trusting that such embodied actions, on even the smallest of scales will entrain the world over time into greater wisdom and health and sanity.

FROM:  ARRIVING AT YOUR OWN DOOR  108 Lessons In Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

REFLECTION:

  • It seems the world is in an incredible crisis – wars, famine, political views dividing us, and more.  We are at a tipping point.
  • Are you clear on your deepest values and what is most important to you?
  • Upon closer examination – are they coming from a place of love or fear?
  • Love can tip the scales… what actions can you take today toward another or a group of people to aid in tipping the scales toward a more loving world.

CROSS THE ABYSS

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?  This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are useless.

Quote by Thomas Merton

REFLECTION:

  • You can make changes in your life… move, change jobs, marry, get divorced but one things remains: you.
  • Without a sturdy sense of self, much falters. 
  • So take some time today… maybe even walk in the moonlight and examine what makes you tick… is it serving you or leading you to an endless abyss?

DOES IT HAVE HEART?

Look at every path closely and deliberately.  then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question, ‘Does this path have a heart?  If it does, the path is good, if it doesn’t, it is of no use.

FROM:  The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

REFLECTION:

  • Examine your path.  Does it have heart… perhaps like most of us, some of the paths do, others don’t.
  • How can you walk your path with heart today?