Top 5 Soul's Thought of The Day For June 2002
Top 5 Soul's Thought of The Day For June 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #6 -#1/ Experience...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Experience is something we don't really get until it's
too late.
While we experience something as all aspects of our
lives unfold, the true depth of any understanding of those
experiences always seems to comes right after you
need it.
Go figure eh? Life is so ironic in so many ways. We
must take the bad with the good. Sometimes life
calls on us to merely endure the stress. That's not
the best experience there is to be had in life but it
is an all-too-common one, nonetheless.
Experience is a teacher. We can't even begin to
approach its lessons unless we trust ourselves
enough to risk.
So, as each experience unfolds in your life, trust
it, accept it. Allow it to be what ever it is and to
bring you whatever it is that you need it to bring you.
Do not weep or was indignant but rather always seek
to understand.
Experience is something we don't really get until it's
too late.
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Thought of The Day for Monday, June 3, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #6 -#2/Opportunity...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Opportunity is everywhere. It is time to step out of our
comfort zones and experience new things. It is only
through reaching out to new things that we can hope
to experience new things.
Just because we've always lived a certain a way,
believed a certain way, acted a certain way, and
so forth -- does not tie us to continue living,
believing, and acting the same. The minute we
want to change we can initiate change.
Opportunity is everywhere. Reach out and
grab it!
What can I do or begin to think about in a new
and different way that will lend itself to my
increasing my opportunities?
Opportunity awaits your enthusiastic greeting
each and every day.
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Thought of The Day for Tuesday, June 4, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #6 -#3/Speak Your Truth ...
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Speak your truth. Leave the speaking of the truths of
others to them. Speak only for yourself. Do not feel
obligated to answer the accusations of fools. Only
fools make accusations. If you answer them you just
give them a new life of their own. Better that they should
blow in the wind and left to hang there, unanswered.
This way, those who are listening will hear the deafening
reality of your silence.
Do we need to defend ourselves against the accusations
of others? Often those who would accuse do so only to
make themselves look and/or feel better.
Don't worry about getting the last word in either. Your
silence is way more powerful then even the most carefully
chosen words could ever be.
Clearly, there is a time to speak your truth, softly and with
conviction, assertively. Then there are all the times in
between when though it feel like a burden, it is much
better for the harmony of your soul to remain silent.
Those who accuse and criticize often do so just to
provoke us out of our self-worth, self-esteem and
self-confidence -- as if somehow they can pull it
away from us and have it for themselves.
The truth is that to attain self worth, self-esteem and
self-confidence learning when to hold your silence is
just as important, if not more important, then knowing
when to speak your truth.
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Thought of The Day for Wednesday, June 5, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #6 -#4/Letting Go...(Tribute To Duke)
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Today was a new day in my life. A new experience. New
heartache. New grief that touched old, yet remained new.
Grief resulting from letting go that produced profound
sadness, weeping and yet joy and peace.
In October of 1986 I got a little black kitten. The first cat
that I'd ever had. His name was Duke. I had him from that
chilly day in October of 1986 until 10am this morning.
It was yesterday that I made the painful and oh-so-new
(for me) decision that it was time to send him over the
rainbow, send him home.
2 months shy of 16 years Duke was a gift in my life.
It's difficult. I miss him. He was a cat -- a classy cat,
and now he is gone.
Letting go, this time, is opening me up and not shutting
me down. There is such a peace in doing the right thing.
Such joy in setting an animal who wasn't well free.
Letting go, is a process. Letting go is a gift. Whether we
are letting of a cat, a person, a job, a friend, a dream,
parts of our past -- letting go is a lesson that is meant to
leave us with a clear pathway to grow and to get even
stronger.
Some people minimize the role and value of a pet. To
me the lessons that Duke has left me to consolidate
are such gifts.
Through my tears, as I let go, there are fond memories,
brief smiles and a profound understanding that I gave
my buster-buddy the best I had to offer for almost 16
years.
As a tribute to such a brave little trooper I write this
now to say it truly is "better to have loved and lost,
than to have never loved at all."
Don't be afraid to be open. Don't be afraid to be
known. Don't be afraid to share the gifts that you
have to give. For it is in our living, each and
every day, that we honour all that it truly means
to love and be loved.
To my buddy I say, peace pal, sweet dreams,
journey on beyond the rainbow, rest and enjoy
the freedom and know how much you will
always be loved.
Love is not limited to this physical realm.
Letting go -- holding on -- letting go -- grieving --
celebrating -- and living on -- letting go.....
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Thought of The Day for Wednesday, June 12, 2002
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SOUL'S THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Volume Four - Issue #6 -#5/Why care?
By Ms. A.J. Mahari (aka soul)
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Why care?
Because ....
We need to care about each other. We need to care about
the state of world affairs. We need to care about what goes
on in our neighbourhoods.
We live in a broken world. Yet, we have so many gifts to
share. It is through the sharing of our strengths and weaknesses,
our joys and sorrows that we share all that we care about.
Value time. It is precious. Value experience. It is a teacher.
Don't be afraid to feel. Feel your sorrow as freely as your
joy. Life is lived in and through the trenches of all that befalls
or graces us with its presence and challenge. Be open.
It is through caring about each other and all of life that
we strive to reach our maximum potential as beings.
Though life be full of stress, problems, losses, conflicts
and the like, hey, regardless, it is still a beautiful world.
Care because to not care is to cheat yourself and those
you like and love.
Why care?
Because -- because you can, and because you so need
others to care about you.
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Thought of The Day for Thursday, June 13, 2002
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