Posted by: Jan on November 22, 2009
Categories: Mind/Body/Spirit // There are 3 comments already...
As we’re approaching our Thanksgiving holiday on November 26th here in the States, I’d like to share with you some “soul food” and bits of wisdom to slip in between the open spaces in your mind and your heart.
I love Chinese food, especially the fortune cookies and the delightful messages inside of them.
I recently received one that said, “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
As I listen to those words over and over again, here is what I’m hearing:
- Give one less criticism and one more compliment;
- Share less judgment and intolerance; share more compassion and diversity;
- Cancel the whiner in your head, and commit to the wisdom in your heart;
- Stop punishing your body for what you’ve made of it, and start providing it with healthier food and more exercise;
- Put on one less selfish tantrum and thoughtfully do one more random act of kindness;
- Expect one less hour of grief and one more day of gratitude;
- Let go of being fabulously famous and allow yourself to receive more friends who love you as you are;
- Stop pushing your mind into square, rigid boxes and mindfully allow your intuition to be fluid and flexible;
- Support less inhumanities among nations and strive for more humanness in your own neighborhood;
- Ask not what’s in it for you but rather what’s in it for all of us.
Listen to the whispers of your own soul. No matter how long it takes you to hear them – the important part is that you’re still listening.
Many blessings on your journey!
Janice M. Puta
Author of Pathways: Tales for the Spiritual Seeker
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