The DAILY SPARK Blog

GROWING

Most people don’t want accurate information, they want validating information.  Growth requires you to be open to unlearning ideas that perviously served you.

Quote by James Clear from his book: ATOMIC HABITS

REFLECTION:

  • Do you seek to be “right” when addressing someone with an opposing viewpoint?
  • Are you willing to unlearn ideas/beliefs that previously served you?
  • Examine your behavior.

DISCERNING YOU!

Before we can be what we are meant to be, we must accept what we are not.  This form of discernment asks us to let go of those grand fantasies that take us out of our nature, that make us work to be famous instead of loving, or perfect instead of compassionate. 

FROM:  THE BOOK OF AWAKENING by Mark Nepo

REFLECTION:

  • Have you accepted who you are not (or will never be/become)?
  • Have you let go of fantasies of what you thought you wanted to be? Do? Have?
  • How can you be more loving and compassionate?

GAMBLING FOR LOVE

Gamble everything for love. 

If you are a true human being. 

If not, leave this gathering. 

Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. 

You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. 

Don’t wait any longer.  Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you. 

Silent, absent, walking an empty road, all praise.

FROM:  RUMI the 13th Century Persian Poet- Philosopher. 

REFLECTION:

  • Does your heart know the path to your happiness?
  • In your love, in your work, in your service to others, does your heart guide your actions?
  • Can you quiet your mind long enough to listen to your heart?
  • Try it today!