Learning from others, living wholesomely and softening our barriers.



MONTHLY REMINDER

Reader, learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time you will be grateful you did.

REFLECTION PROMPTS:

  • Who taught me something important this year?
  • In what ways have I grown in the last 12 months?
  • What will I cherish and carry with me into the next 12 months and beyond?

DECEMBER'S REFLECTION PROMPT

In December, I will live well by...

Define what 'living well' means to you. Consider which attitudes, habits, rituals, rhythms, spaces, people etc. helped you live wholesomely in the last few months.


2 QUOTES WORTH PONDERING

1. Lee L. Jampolsky – author of 'Smile for No Good Reason' – on living our values:

"At least three times every day, take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer."

REFLECTION PROMPTS:

  • What truly matters to me in life?
  • If all obstacles were removed, what would the design of my ideal life be?
  • How can I get out of my own way today?

2. Sufi poet, Rumi on love:

"Your task is not to seek for love, but to merely seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

REFLECTION PROMPTS:

  • What walls (emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual) have I built?
  • What would it feel and look like to receive and accept love?
  • What would it take to soften or dissolve my rigid barriers?

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