Sunday Wisdom and Thanks

Dear Soul,

I came across a passage in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It intrigued me greatly because his words seem very prophetic for our age, this age in time. The passage I read explains the energy behind Michelle Moments, behind Michelle. I hope that you find your own kind of wisdom in this spell binding selection of text. I highlighted those things that jumped out at me. It will connect with you too.

If you have the book, I am on page 30, Chapter 3 - Book 3

"If at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, honest, self-control, courage - than a mind satisfied that it has succeeded in enabling you to act rationally and satisfied to accept what's beyond its control - if you find anything better than that , embrace it without reservation - it must be an extraordinary thing indeed - and enjoy it to the full.

But if nothing presents itself that's superior to the spirit that lives within - the one that has subordinated individual desire to itself, that discriminates impression that has broken free of the physical temptations (as Socrates used to say), and subordinated itself to the god's, and looks out for human being's welfare, if you find that there's nothing more important and valuable than that ....

 ...then don't make room for anything else but it. - for anything than that might lead you astray, tempt you off the road, and leave you unable to devote yourself completely to achieving the goodness that is uniquely yours.  It would be wrong for anything to stand between you and attaining goodness - as a rational being and a citizen. Anything at all: the applause of the crowd, high office, wealth, or self-indulgence. All of them might seem compatible with it for a while. But suddenly they control us and sweep us away.

So make your choice straightforwardly, once and for all, and stick to it. Choose what is best.

- Best is what benefits me

As a rational being? Then follow through. Or just as an animal? Then say so and stand your ground without making a show of it. (Just make sure you've done your homework first.)"

 My homework has been my life experience and challenges coupled with reading to understand how I can get through. There is nothing more satisfying than finding ways to inspire others, the extraordinary inside me tells me so and that is good for humankind.

I am grateful for my life and all that has happened, arrived, and brought in learning, perspective. I am grateful for the losses, the heart ache, the hard. Those things have helped me to hew my life into who I am now and where I stand. Albeit there is much more to learn, we are imperfectly perfect - spiritual beings trying to tough it out soulfully. 

I am grateful for the tranquility and harmony that follows when I recognize how God and the universe has a hand in my life.

I am grateful for each of you and the time you take to read my blogs.

I am grateful for my education in life and scholastically whereby I learned to read and write. 

I am grateful for my parents who allowed me to figure out me. To find out what I am all about.

I am grateful for technology like phones that reach beyond miles to connect the sound of a voice with another. The evolution of the phone is marvelous, and I am so so grateful that I can reach out  and see those I love where miles become invisible and not so distant.

I am grateful for my homeland New Zealand and the vista of life it gave me in my youth. There is so  much that I was able to experience that it fills my youthful inner child with happiness.

Let me close with this thought again from Marcus Aurelius [...] "14. You have functioned as part of something; you will vanish into what you have produced you.

OR be restored, rather. To
To the logos from which all things spring.
By being changed."

Life has changed me for the better and I hope as you go through today you take the time to express gratitude, thanks to your partner, your wife, your husband, your children but most of all yourself.

Thanks,

 

ME xx