Assumptions
This week we focus on the concept of having an “Open Mind”. Today’s MotD reminds us that one of our greatest hindrances to our growth is making assumptions. By pre-judging a person or situation, we limit our scope of awareness and our openness to receive what that person or situation has to offer.
While watching an episode of “The Odd Couple” (decades ago), Felix was in a courtroom interrogating a witness. We he caught the witness in a wrong “assumption”, Felix quite emphatically and dramatically wrote on a chalkboard the word “assume”. He said “when you “assume”, you make an “ass” (he circled the letters ‘ass’), out of “u” (he circled the letter ‘u’), and “me” (he circled the letters “me”). That has stuck with me all these years. I have myself said it multiple times over the decades—to myself and others.
A rule of thumb (what does the mean? googled it) I try to follow is “ask questions!” Assuming I understand something without confirming it has gotten me into more trouble than I care to share here. But here’s one. While facilitating my high school’s Future Teachers of American club meeting, I introduced our speaker (a 40-something man) and made a comment about how nice it was of him to bring his (20-something) daughter with him…turns out it was his girlfriend. Ouch! Was I embarrassed.
Ask questions! Better to ask a silly question than humiliate ourselves with our pre-judgment.
How about you? Do you make assumptions? Are they usually correct? Are you open-minded enough to ask questions?
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 