Angeles Arrien

Happy Holidays!

One-a-day thoughts, questions and reminders for December, compiled by Angeles Arrien.

1. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he/she was created capable of being.
2. Faith is belief put into action.
3. Do something to make the situation better.
4. We are creatures of nature. Nature’s rhythm is medium to slow!
5. Add and derive value from this day.
6. Cherish family and friends.
7. My own heart has the full freedom and responsibility of choice.
8. You owe it to the world to get on with what you are good at.
9. “Be neither naively high, nor despairingly low.” – St. Ignatius Loyola
10. Ask for the graces of patience and acceptance.
11. Is it a problem to be solved, or a mystery to be lived?
12. Increase faith, hope and charity.
13. Look for unpredictable outcomes. Stay creative.
14. Be a blessing; bestow a blessing! Open to blessing.
15. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Gandhi
16. Who are you beyond your roles, interests, and work?
17. Let go, let it be, move on!
18. Befriend Mystery. “We are born in mystery, we live in mystery and we die in mystery.” – Huston Smith
19. A hidden treasure resides within each human being.
20. “True presence is steady, non-discursive attention, which at the same time is relaxed and self-possessed.”
    – Thomas Keating
21. Honor the Ancestors.
22. A miracle is a shift in perception.
23. “And the one who had much did not have too much, and the one who had little did not have too little.”
    (Exodus 16)
24. May the power of love be stronger than the love of power.
25. How has God’s love appeared today?
26. Honor the sacred gifts of amends and atonement.
27. “Spiritual hospitality is helping another across a threshold.” – Ivan Illich
28. Our spiritual formation cannot take place in total isolation. It is grounded in the experience of relationship and community.
29. Thy will be done.
30. Hallelujah! And remember Anne Lamonts’ two great prayers, “Help, help! Thanks, thanks!”
31. Go forth and do good.

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