Today’s Mandala
Grassroots
“All change starts
— Tom Coburn
with a distant rumble
at the grassroots level.”
“The right to happiness is fundamental.”
— Anna Pavlova
“The more one does and sees
— Amelia Earhart
and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be
one’s appreciation of fundamental things
like home, and love, and
understanding companionship.”
Today’s MotD asks us to go to our core, the deepest parts of ourselves, to the fundamentals regarding who we are, what we want, and why we want it. Our challenge becomes stripping away years of beliefs, conditioning, rules, and other such veils that block access to our fundamental being-ness. In all things, that’s where we need to start. What’s going on outside of ourselves takes care of itself when we take a grassroots approach to “knowing thyselves”.
For instance if we’re in a position where we feel like we have to constantly justify ourselves, we will take on behaviors of defensiveness, resentment, and anger (to name a few). When we work through and embrace that we have just as much right to be here as everyone else (not that we’re better than anyone else, just equally justified in being here), we will take on behaviors related to confidence, strength, and clarity of self. People will react to us accordingly; the outside experience changes because we changed some fundamental beliefs about ourselves.
“To know thyself
— Socrates
is the beginning of wisdom.“
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
btw…started with this…
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