25-020 The Basics

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MotD 25-020 The Basics — after. Front side of Puzzle Piece No. 20. loosely painted with colors of yellow, red, and orange

The Basics

Just so you know, with my left hand reaching into the ceramic box to randomly choose today’s puzzle piece, the number “20” literally, and I mean literally, popped out of the box and onto my desk. I would say that it truly wanted me to pick it for today. So I honored its effort.

The basics per Melody Beattie mean practicing our values everyday…for the rest of our lives. When we feel out of balance, triggered, fearful, or anything other than at peace, go back to the basics: connect with our values.

One of my key values, “curiosity”, helps me (when I remember) experience life from a place of being curious about situations, people, things, circumstances, and so on. And it just happens to be the focus of this week’s Mandala Oracle Reading.

How about you? What value or values help bring you back to center? Which one(s) do you consider to be “The Basics” and can practice consistently?

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

MotD 25-020 The Basics — before. Front side of Puzzle Piece No. 20.
MotD 25-020 The Basics — before. Back side of Puzzle Piece No. 20

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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