Angeles Arrien

If We Can Be More…

Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio vaccine, has provided guidelines on what it takes to be a pioneer, visionary, inventor and change-maker. He offers the following invitation for how we individually and collectively can create a breakthrough in our evolution:

"If we can be courageous, one more time than we are fearful;

If we can be trusting, one more time than we are anxious;

If we can be cooperative, one more time than we are competitive;

If we can be forgiving, one more time than we are vindictive;

If we can be loving, one more time than we are hateful...

We will have moved closer to the next breakthrough in our evolution.

-Jonas Salk

 

Practices

Each day through the month of August, take one more time:

* On Mondays, to be more courageous than fearful;

* On Tuesdays, to be more trusting rather than anxious;

* On Wednesdays, to be more cooperative than competitive;

* On Thursdays, to be more forgiving rather than vindictive;

* On Fridays, to be more loving rather than hateful.

* Use Saturdays and Sundays in the month of August to give thanks for the blessings in your life; then repeat again the work of each day in the next week as listed above. Notice which of these qualities are easier for you to stretch into "one more time" and which are more difficult.
 

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