An extraordinary thing about affirmations is their instant, magnetic pulling and triggering of your genuine, sincere belief about a thing. There’s magic in awareness.
Tag: emotional intelligence
I’ve never been a confident man.
I’m sure there’s some elaborate formula that would shed light on the hows and whys: this gene, coupled with that circumstance, those parents, that culture, those schools, those books, that trauma, that success, these friends, those choices, those actions, and that value… multiplied by this belief and that evidence, equals this man?
In the next millennium, those who look back on our time may be curious as to how we persisted — and managed to survive — in such a strange, unbalanced, violent, and stupid state.
After the purifying fires, through those episodes of energetic upheaval and release, we gain perspective and maybe even a permanent shift in perception.
In every moment we are given the ability and the responsibility to choose to do the right thing… or not. What is “right” is a divine, unattached, momentary locus of you-plus-universal intelligence — not simply what might be culturally or socially acceptable or expected, not what your family, or elders, or peers would expect, not anything but the pure and blessed essential true-ness of this naked moment.