Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
—Golda Meir
How do you fan your inner sparks of possibility?
We think of the covenant of the Jewish people with their God as being based in a list of negative commandments: Thou Shalt Not…. But even those Ten Commandments start with an affirmative: “I am the Lord your God.”
What commandment do you hold sacred?
A handshake is a covenant—a promise between two people to hold to an agreement. It is an expression of trust between two people who might not even be friends, but who know that meeting in good faith is the basis for any relationship.
Who are you in covenant with, although you do not know them well?
The dissolution of our covenants, whether in divorce or the end of less intensely personal relationships, is often the result of our disillusion—realizing that someone is quite different than we had imagined. Sometimes things change. Sometimes we choose fantasy over a clear-eyed view. Sometimes people actively mislead us. But covenants break when it turns out that the nature of the agreement was not what we thought.
How have you been disillusioned in a relationship?
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
—Morihei Ueshiba
How has an act of self-sacrifice led you to trust in the power of love?
