Take a Look at Yourself
This title reminds me of an Eric Clapton song lyric that goes “before you accuse me, take a look at yourself”. It’s been said that whatever we’re pointing out about someone else, chances are it’s something we ourselves are doing but block ourselves from seeing it. How about we use this “ability” as a way to discover what in ourselves are we afraid to face that we can easily see in others. While it may not be exactly what other people are doing, it may be that we’re doing some version of it.
For example if we’re accusing other people of lying (blatant or otherwise), where in our lives are we lying? It could be that it’s not about us lying to other people, but how we are lying to ourselves. Something to ponder.
I see this play out for me with “hate” (h8). I find myself angry, frustrated, and sad about how much h8 I see in the world. And yet, throughout my day, I catch myself saying in my head or out loud things like: “I h8 when I do that”, or “I h8 the smell of broccoli cooking” or “I h8 when someone cuts me off in traffic”. Do I really h8 these things? No…well maybe the broccoli…I just have this habit of using (overusing) that word.
So I ’m on a quest to be mindful of my use of “h8”, to question it, and dig little deeper into the why of it. Like the song “Let there be Peace on Earth”, to help overcome all the hate in the world, I need to begin with me.
How about you? What do you point out about other people that could very well be a mirror of what you yourself are not facing about and within in you?
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:
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.
Mandala of the Day 