The DAILY SPARK Blog

Whatever "it" is.  That's probably a mistake.  People don't know what you know, don't believe what you believe, don't fear what you fear.  They're not equally skilled, equally fast and equally equipped.  "If I were you" isn't that helpful.FROM: Seth Godin's BlogREFLECTION:Do you spend time comparing yourself to others?Do you offer advice to to others.... "if I were you..."?How can you better believe in yourself... in your gifts and talents and skills? Can you let others experience their own journey?

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING In that first hardly noticed moment to which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged. Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window toward the mountain presence of everything that can be, what urgency calls you to your one love? What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky? Is it waiting in the fertile sea? In the trees beyond the house? In the life you can imagine for yourself? In the open and lovely white page on the waiting desk? ~ David Whyte ~ Poem by David Whyte from his book: THE HOUSE OF BELONGING REFLECTION: Do you ever feel like a troubled or uninvited  guest? What urgency is calling to you? What seed is waiting to grow and spread in you? Waking up, what do you need to remember?

The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.Quote by Erik NaggumErik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Norwegian computer programmer recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs and Lisp.  Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet discussion groups. He died at age 44 from an ulcer. Source: WikipediaREFLECTION:How do you feel about yourself?Do you stretch yourself to be with people whom you perceive to be more than you?Do you feel worthy in their company?