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Everything we do or say has the potential to affect the whole…
IMAGINE how powerful that is.
Taken from DAILY OM
(http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2011/28068.html)
As the pace and fullness of modern life serve to isolate us from one another, the contact we do share becomes vastly more significant. We unconsciously absorb each other’s energy, adopting the temperament of those with whom we share close quarters, and find ourselves changed after the briefest encounters. Everything we do or say has the potential to affect not only the individuals we live, work, and play with but also those we’ve just met. Though we may never know the impact we have had or the scope of our influence, accepting and understanding that our attitudes and choices will affect others can help us remember to conduct ourselves with grace at all times. When we seek always to be friendly, helpful, and responsive, we effortlessly create an atmosphere around ourselves that is both uplifting and inspiring.
Most people rarely give thought to the effect they have had or will have on others. When we take a few moments to contemplate how our individual modes of being affect the people we spend time with each day, we come one step closer to seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. By asking ourselves whether those we encounter walk away feeling appreciated, respected, and liked, we can heighten our awareness of the effect we ultimately have. Something as simple as a smile given freely can temporarily brighten a person’s entire world. Our value-driven conduct may inspire others to consider whether their own lives are reflective of their values. A word of advice can help others see life in an entirely new fashion. And small gestures of kindness can even prove to those embittered by the world that goodness still exists. By simply being ourselves, we influence other’s lives in both subtle and life-altering ways.
To ensure that the effect we have is positive, we must strive to stay true to ourselves while realizing that it is the demeanor we project and not the quality of our wondrous inner landscapes that people see. Thus, as we interact with others, how we behave can be as important as who we are. If we project our passion for life, our warmth, and our tolerance in our facial features, voice, and choice of words, every person who enters our circle of influence will leave our presence feeling at peace with themselves and with us. You never know whose life you are affecting, big or small. Try to remember this as you go out into the world each day.
Only a few days into April and the fragrance of springtime energy has intoxicated my senses. I walk on the moist earth each morning, I smell the freshness of life in the air, and I feel dizzy with a buzz of joy in my ear.
Oh, my Beloved, manifested in this thing called ‘life’
I AM ever grateful for every moment you give me
that I feel alive within your Being-ness everywhere…
Yes, I must confess that I am falling in love with the magnolia trees over and over…Heavy with white and pink petals, their branches are sweeping me off my feet. I walked by in the dusk light, and I couldn’t help myself but pick up the petal offerings flooding the streets with a new sense of beautiful rebirth. One by one, each petal was being caressed by these hands and promised an honorable place in the ritual of sacred communion with All that Is. I could already see them floating in the bath water surrounded by candles being part of yet another purification rite of Oneness and Expansion of Joy with Source.
Everything I am given, I offer back to you… I know
the Web needs as many cosmic threads as it can get
to weave us back into the Center, to make sense of
this mystery called ‘mind’ and to transcend many dreams
stored up in the great big library of humanity…So everything I am given,
I offer back to you and thus find more of my Self in You as you decide
to bounce your light back at me from every corner of your mouth
in each being that I see. I never cease looking for you, my love.
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