25-008 Integrity

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MotD 25-008 Integrity — After. Puzzle Piece no. 50 with colors of yellow and green, with a bit of red in the lower right corned. The areas with green on the yellow look like grassy areas with evergreen trees on them.

Integrity

I’ll start with a quote from Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact” regarding integrity:

A person of integrity has honorable intentions, is trustworthy, and is honest. An air of high drama or manipulation does not surround acts of integrity. Acts of integrity stand on their own. — Melody Beattie

While it’s easy to point out the lack of integrity in others, are we open to looking at from within. For me, I strive to be a person of integrity especially with others…but with myself, I find I’m not always honest about how I feel, why I do the things I do, or why I treat myself the way I do.

Most of it has to do with making sure I do things that will hopefully make others happy, while for me those very things are generally not something that I would truly want to do…if I was being honest with myself. I know…I’m a recovering people pleaser. Too often, I give too much of my power away to other people and how they feel about me and/or what I do.

It’s time for me change one of my values from being “approval seeking” to being “authentic”. (See 25-003 Values)

How about you? How does integrity play out in your world…with others…with yourself?

BTW…Here’s the before…the back and front view of the puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:

MotD 25-008 Integrity — Before. Back of Puzzle Piece no. 50
MotD 25-008 Integrity — Before. Front of Puzzle Piece no. 50

Peace & Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady

🏵️ Creating Mandalas — Awakening Inner Harmony

ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day

Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.

Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.

Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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