25-344 It’s About Understanding

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Mandala of the Day 25-344 It's About Understanding — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 100

It’s About Understanding

Our focus this week — Dec 10-16: “Compassion”

Today’s MotD: It’s About Understanding. We’re reminded that compassion comes with understanding. Where we may have resistance towards a situation or a person or a group of people, taking the time to understand the situation or people, has a greater potential of reversing the resistance into compassion than if we didn’t try to understand it/them at all.

Why would we want to do that ? Well, ever notice how when we’re in resistance mode we are usually filled with frustration, disgust, anxiety, and/or anger ? How is that beneficial to our overall well-being-ness ? When we are in compassion or understanding mode, our hearts open and we’re more likely to feel peace, joy, and/or love. That seems a lot more beneficial than the aforementioned.

Our challenge becomes maintaining healthy levels of compassion. What good are we if we overextend ourselves to our detriment ? Compassion is not meant to be a win-lose thing; it’s meant to be a win-win.

How about you ? What’s your take on being compassionate ? Are there people in your life that could use a bit of understanding ? Are there situations around you that could use a bit of understanding ?

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:

Mandala of the Day 25-344 It's About Understanding — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 100
Mandala of the Day 25-344 It's About Understanding — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 100

Peace & Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady

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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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