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Daily Question, June 13

How have I changed or grown recently? How is that impacting the world around me?

  • reality

    I’m like totally assassinated so I have to start making end of life plans, which will transform the world as we know it; for, I was humanity’s last hope to stop it’s extinction- as an evolutionary leader 🙂 reality

  • Brian

    I recently sold the house where I raised my 2 children and moved into a 1 bedroom condominium. It was a difficult decision along the way, up to closings and even now, for many reasons, but I think and I hope it was the right one for all three of us moving forward, despite the uncertainty that lies ahead. The change will, with time, hopefully encourage positive healthful growth and change for each of us.

  • Ineke Bennink

    Ik ben veranderd, door de corona crises en door oplichting via de Whatsapp, al mijn gespaarde geld weg (gegeven) €1800, dat ik verdiend had om mijn 3 de prentenboek uit te geven ?
    Dat hakt er wel in! Ben al een tijdje zwaarmoedig en lusteloos … hoe nu verder?

    • Mica

      So sad, Ineke! What next, indeed?! I love your icon with flowers and green leaves. Hugs to you and welcome to this community!

      Google translates :
      I have changed, through the corona crises and through scams via the Whatsapp, all my saved money away (given) € 1800, which I had earned to publish my 3rd picture book ?
      That makes sense! Have been melancholic and listless for a while… what next?

  • Debra

    I believe I am growing ex-potentially under the sequestered state of the pandemic. I have slowed down and used the solitude availed for self-exploration, development, prayer and for spiritual guidance. I am more at peace and more accepting and loving and I have vowed to continue this inner journey that hopefully overflows to others as life perhaps never returns to ‘how it was’ before but becomes a more fulfilling experience for us all.

    • Present Moment

      Let’s hope we can keep the new knowledge. Actually every day before this crisis changed us too, but I feel I was moving so fast I failed to recognise or honor the growth.

  • Michele

    I can’t see that I have changed or grown “recently”. I am very worried with the world around me with all that is going on. I see more people becoming relaxed and not wearing face masks/social distancing, opening of theme parks and Florida is seeing daily spikes. Corona is still here and might come back with a vengeance with a 2nd wave. I hope for positive change with the Black Lives Matter and peace can be achieved. Lastly, June is Pride month. Focus should be on LGBT.

  • Carol
    Spending 24 hrs./7 days a week basically alone makes it hard to ignore my shortcomings and my strengths. The stillness, the time for reflection, makes me vulnerable and vulnerability is necessary to grow in self-awareness. Self awareness is the key that opens the door. You can’t give away something you don’t possess.You can’t expect to be an instrument of positive change in the world if you are not willing to be an instrument of positive change in yourself. Life is process. The possibility...

    Spending 24 hrs./7 days a week basically alone makes it hard to ignore my shortcomings and my strengths. The stillness, the time for reflection, makes me vulnerable and vulnerability is necessary to grow in self-awareness. Self awareness is the key that opens the door. You can’t give away something you don’t possess.You can’t expect to be an instrument of positive change in the world if you are not willing to be an instrument of positive change in yourself. Life is process. The possibility of growth is unlimited. Today’s quote by Charles Eisenstein speaks truth to me: “Ultimately, work on self is inseparable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well.” As I pondered today’s question and quote, I found myself on you tube listening to various folks singing the St Francis prayer: It’s become my mantra in these challenging times.
    Make me an instrument of your peace
    Where there is hatred, let me sow love
    Where there is injury, pardon
    Where there is doubt, faith
    Where there is despair, hope
    Where there is darkness, light
    And where there is sadness, joy
    O Divine Master, grant that I may
    Not so much seek to be consoled as to console
    To be understood, as to understand
    To be loved, as to love with all my soul

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  • Katrina

    I have started a daily meditation practice. I can’t believe how much more centered I feel, which makes me more open to greeting the world with listening compassion.

  • Howie Geib
    Due to COVID and its impact I have both lost my business and thrust into early retirement. So a lot of changes to my impact on the world around me in regards to loosening of social bonds (clients, colleagues) and a deep shift in terms of my place in the world. Last night in fact I was reflecting on how much I am 'at home' in a good way. These weeks of being here, on this site particularly, have strengthened my focus, as I contemplate the great 'what's next?' aspects of all of this. Lastly, it is...

    Due to COVID and its impact I have both lost my business and thrust into early retirement. So a lot of changes to my impact on the world around me in regards to loosening of social bonds (clients, colleagues) and a deep shift in terms of my place in the world. Last night in fact I was reflecting on how much I am ‘at home’ in a good way. These weeks of being here, on this site particularly, have strengthened my focus, as I contemplate the great ‘what’s next?’ aspects of all of this. Lastly, it is remarkable that so many others are with me in this, we are all being taken up in this tsunami of change. So I am grateful, and in the day, and healthy.

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  • Carla

    I’m becoming able to be patient with myself as a response to cope with the egregious events that have happened & continue to happen here where I live, Minneapolis. What happened here, completely separate from anything I’ve done; has become a tidal wave of conversations, radical action, and new boots on the ground for long over due change. These organic byproducts of long overdue actions are taken as a response to George Floyd’s visible lynching.

    • Present Moment

      Carla, thank you for being on the front lines. As a former Minneapolitan, West Banker, now living with disabilities in Mexico, I support those who remember the Minnesota tradition of caring for each other.I
      May sanity prevail and out of the fires of conflict rise growrh.

      • Carla

        Amor fati, the West Bank thrives! I smiled seeing your post, as I’ve been working in the WB now for 7 years. WB is more often called Cedar Riverside or Little Mogadishu; home to thousands of refugees / immigrants from East Africa. Augsburg now has University status. Wonderful multicultural shops & cafes line Cedar & Riverside Ave. Young people organized themselves at night to watch the shops. Blessings upon you in Mexico! Vaya con Dios. ?carla

  • Christina

    Something about the universality of love, which the world pretty much doesn’t get.

  • devy

    With my recently found 6 months daily mindfulness and gratitude meditation and studies, my outlook towards others and inlook towards me has changed. My wife has noted a big change in my attitude towards living. I tell her my feelings and fears, support her when necessary and when she needs it. I also have learned to accept the negativity in my childhood and understand the reasons why people including my parents mistreated or the perceived mistreatment of myself..

  • Javier Visionquest
    During the lock down period I’ve been developing new skills and have adopted my next teacher. While I’m in the gloves and under the mask, anyway, I’ve decided to up my sterile technique and try my hand at culturing mushrooms from spores. I’m thus able to provide my friend in hospice care with these powerful healing spirits toward the end of his life and also cultivate unadulterated medicine that supports my own well being, specifically those that aid in nerve regeneration for neuropathy ...

    During the lock down period I’ve been developing new skills and have adopted my next teacher. While I’m in the gloves and under the mask, anyway, I’ve decided to up my sterile technique and try my hand at culturing mushrooms from spores. I’m thus able to provide my friend in hospice care with these powerful healing spirits toward the end of his life and also cultivate unadulterated medicine that supports my own well being, specifically those that aid in nerve regeneration for neuropathy and regulation of blood glucose.

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    • Cathy

      I find this so fascinating, Javier! At times my interest has been piqued to learn this art, but I would find myself a little confused and seemingly move on to something else. I like your tenacity.

      • Javier Visionquest
        Hi, Cathy. Thanks for reading. Charles Eisenstein reminds us this morning in the Word of the Day: “Ultimately, work on self is inseparable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well.” This is so true for me. My first experience with the P. cubensis related similar: “Our bodies are synonymous the this earth in the same sense that our minds reflect the world we inhabit. When we take responsi...

        Hi, Cathy. Thanks for reading. Charles Eisenstein reminds us this morning in the Word of the Day:
        “Ultimately, work on self is inseparable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well.”
        This is so true for me. My first experience with the P. cubensis related similar: “Our bodies are synonymous the this earth in the same sense that our minds reflect the world we inhabit. When we take responsibility for both we will heal the whole.” While its effects impose a deep sense of peaceful, loving kindness, the longer we spend in that state of mind the more neural connections in the brain we make to sustain those effects and the more loving kindness we will project into our world. Through all my hobbies, whether it be gardening, beekeeping, or homebrewing, the ultimate lesson it holds for me is patience.

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  • I’ve gooten a bit more wet, almost not noticeable….

  • Kevin

    Honestly, I cannot say that I have changed or grown lately, or at least in ways that I have noticed specifically. And knowing this feels unsettling, too. My mentors have told me that we live in God’s time and not our own. This concept brings me some comfort. I do feel a few “spiritual nibbles” at work within, but nothing yet that rises to action. My faith tells me that God knows where to find me.

    • Carol

      Hi Kevin, As I read your post, the word stillness arose in me. Be still and know. These times tell me that stillness is a powerful form of action. It reminds me that knowledge and knowing are not always the same thing.

      • Kevin

        Thank you, Carol, I appreciate your words and your perspective. in response to my post.

  • Julian Daal Childers

    I have become less selfish monetarily and due to tat others are able to benefit.

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