- I am a husband who delights in the commitment that is marriage, who finds the wisdom to be both one and separate. I express daily my affection, support, and tenderness with my beloved.
- I am a father who opens up joy, possibility, worth and excellence for my children.
- I am a friend who is challenging and supportive. I am faithful; I share my wisdom and my belongings. I listen attentively and skillfully. I speak the truth with love, insight, and humor.
- I am Transformational, extraordinary insight and creativity expressed through word, music, visual art, and technology.
- I will generate justice, wholeness, integrity, openness, empowerment, and understanding. My enemies are: shame, divisiveness, ignorance, indifference, and legalism.
- I believe in The Source of Love who created a universe filled with the greatest power: Love. I daily spend time seeking that SOL. I give my self to devotedly aligning with that Power.
- I uncover joy and delight in hidden places.
- I see the beauty behind the ordinary. I am concerned with substance rather than appearance.
- I dream the impossible, believe it can happen, take steps to do it, and make it become.
- I help myself and others discover our blind spots, as well as what we know but are not aware of knowing.
- I have fun whenever and wherever possible, but not at the expense of others.
- I choose my words with care, brevity, accuracy, and incisiveness.
- I am open to the µ (openly infinite) possibilities of life.
- I help people feel safe yet excited, accepted yet challenged. I learn skills to manage conflict.
- I am aware of, and am intimate with my own darkness and hurtful behaviors.
- I accept things and people as they are and yet challenge all of us to become finer still.
- I act in the face of injustice, cry in the presence of pain, am moved by excellence in any form
- I grow where I’m planted, transforming rather than re-locating.
- I do not quit until Love is accomplished.
- I live powerfully so that I could die at any moment and be complete.
Comments:
Chitra, you say the most profound and beautiful things!
I enjoy your Hindu perspective, as well. The funny thing is this (and I’m far from being the first to say it): The present is all there is!!! The past and the future exist only in our minds. What’s sad is to see people fretting over past mistakes, or planning for some future eventuality to the point that they miss the present, the only thing there IS. Children live mainly in the present. That’s what makes them so attentive, alive, fun, and Joyful!
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Your ARE a beautiful person!
