The DAILY SPARK Blog

LIFE’S TRUE MEANING

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“We are visitors on this planet.  We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most.  During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives.  If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.”

Quote by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

REFLECTION:

What have you done that is good and useful in your life?

How have you contributed to the happiness of another?

What can you do today to live the true meaning of life?

HOW WE BECOME

Let’s invite one another in.  Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us.   Maybe we can better embrace the ways we are the same.  It’s not about being perfect.  It’s not about where you get yourself in the end.  There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice.  And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others.  this, for me, is how we become.

The closing paragraph of BECOMING by Michele Obama

REFLECTION:

Do you allow yourself to be known and heard?

Do you own your unique story?

Do you create space for others to be known and heard?

Are you BECOMING?

BEING SPRING

“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone?  Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

Poem by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, was a 13th-century Persian poet,  Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.  (1207 -1273)

REFLECTION:

It is officially spring.  Examine how you have become hard.

How can you create a garden that will allow flowers to grow?

How can you “be earth?”