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Today's
Meditation:
There
are many people in the world who are much more comfortable
preaching than they are practicing. We don't have to
be like that, though, and as long as we're aware of the
need to maintain consistency between our words and our
actions, we have a very good chance of making our life an
affirmation-- of our values, of our beliefs, of our desire
to help our fellow human beings in the ways we best can do
so.
When
we practice without preaching to others, people can sense
our authenticity. They know that we're being
ourselves and not expecting them to live up to some
artificial expectations that we've built up of them, and
they can relax around us, be comfortable with us, learn
from us. When we move our own lives and actions to a
higher level, then we don't even need to preach to
others-- our very lives will be all the message that we
want or need to send to others.
Our
lives become what we make them. They don't just
happen. We always have a choice: do we make
them affirmations of our higher selves, the selves that
love and dare and share and feel compassion for others,
or do we make them affirmations of our fears, our
frustrations, our critical sides that see the faults in
others? Do we make ourselves "feel better"
by negating and cutting down others, or do we simply build
ourselves up to a point at which we never need to cut down
a single person for any reason at all?
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