We know that we are vulnerable to the elements—to earth and air and water and sky. But we would do well to remember that are made up of the elements, and will return to them in the end. Any protection from the elements we devise is temporary at best.
How do you make yourself vulnerable to the elements?
It takes some daring to shine your little light when you don’t know that anyone will even see it. But light your own way. If you become a beacon for someone else, that’s a bonus.
How will you dare to shine your light today?
“Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.”
―Howard Zinn
When have you been surprised by a change in someone’s thinking?
The grand cliffs by the ocean and the smooth sand under your feet are the same thing—rocks at different stages of their lives. You don’t know what something or someone is unless you know their story.
Whose story do you wish you knew?
“Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I’ve always carried about is rather more vulnerable. Yet I must cling with all my might to … my own soul; must hold on to its mischievous, iconoclastic, out-of-step clown-instincts, no matter how great the storm.”
―Salman Rushdie
What do you do to stay in touch with the teachings of your soul?
