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Daily Question, August 17

How might I clarify what matters most?

  • Pavithra

    I believe it is important to slow down, breathe and pay attention to everything that happens around you. This will allow you to find answers from within on what, who and why all of these people/things matter the most.

  • Malag

    Whatever moves towards my values. I can sometimes examine those values to adjust or reconnect to them.

  • Maeve

    How might I clarify what matters most?

    by slowing down. By paying attention to what I experience and feel. By walking, and getting quiet. By talking to my friends who listen. By seeing the example of those who really did what mattered most to them.

  • Hot Sauce

    The spiritual practices I participate in help me to clarify what matters most because they help me grow in insights about my personal duties/life mission and the duty we all have to ourselves and all sentient beings.

  • Dusty Su

    Possessions: what would I take in an emergency?
    People: who would I call to say I love you if my plane were to crash?
    Ideals and practices: what holds me fast in both those settings?
    How do I live within that space daily, so I can lay my head on my pillow each night and die without regret if need be?

    • Brenda

      I love this. Im glad that we have the opportunity to cherish those we love.

  • Javier Visionquest

    When finally the Christ is revealed again and again in the mirrors of average people, we mostly never recognize Him.

  • Don Jones

    By just seeing that the value of this life is for its beauty, exuberance, profoundness and its intensity.

  • Nancy Walton-House

    Being intentional about my need for silence and creating the open space to experience it, gives me an opportunity to contemplate what matters most to me. Using Ignatian spirituality practices helps me deepen my awareness and discover or confirm what matters most to me. I am grateful for this journey that significantly enriches my life.

  • Debra

    What matters most to me is maintaining non-adversarial relations. Even when conflict brews, to find how to forgive and love and let go.

  • Melissa

    What matters most is staying in touch with family, friends community and strangers. So “ACTION” is what comes to mind. Calling, writing notes, emails, zooming, leaving flowers at the doors of neighbors. Wearing a mask. checking in often. All with a feeling of love, one step at a time during this pandemic in our world. Love, love, love is what is needed now.

  • Mica

    By reading Linda’s post, below!! My family matters most to me, and they – children and grandchildren – all live within walking distance of me ;-]

  • Linda

    I live far away from my family of origin, and since Covid I have not been able to visit them. I am very clear that they matter most to me, in addition to my husband.

  • Ed Schulte

    as explain in Matt 25:1-13 “5 Wise and 5 Foolish Virgins”

    With Right reasoning use of the Divine gift of the “5 sense”. (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch)

    Right reasoning in thoughts and
    Right reasoning in Emotions

    is the “Oil” that gives “Light” to any and all situations AND so-called “En-lighten-ment”

  • Zenith

    By constantly checking my thoughts and attitudes. By consciously choosing to invest in the loved ones in my life. By maintaining boundaries so as to not waste time on the unimportant.

  • eliza

    When i stop trying to think or do and just let my heart, my tears and my longing guide me, the things that matter most seem more real, more precious and more urgent.

  • Carla

    I might clarify what matters most, by pausing for prayer; asking Sophia for guidance in my verbal interactions when a deeper level of clarity is needed usually Leads me to speak with a calmness. Sometimes I’m prone to be overly passionate about the topic at hand when it’s a principle I’m concerned about.

  • Sunflower

    For the moment being, to overcome some sudden but heavy earache, and some additional sleep would really be needed. Even with this current distraction, to be open minded and kind towards each and all I encounter. To be balanced in order to be aware of the moment, which includes you all as well as my current pain, hoping that Universal Love may flow through despite possible difficulties.

    • Butterfly

      Bless you, Sunflower, earache is such a miserable pain. I hope you can get treatment asap and it clears up ? xx

  • Michele

    To me, what matters most is the love for my family and I do not need to clarify that anymore than I already do:) I’m enjoying time with my daughter who leaves to fly back to Hawaii tomorrow. This was a short trip but I’ll take it:) We made my chili together and it turned out awesome. I normally wait till Sept/Oct but she wanted it-was worth it.

  • Katrina
    The question brings to mind exercises and programs that have surfaced throughout the decades - Values Clarification seminars and exercises; 7 Habits for Highly Effective People, etc. I love those exercises, courses and processes. I'd like to do one now that I've entered a new phase and stage of life. But the challenge comes not so much in clarifying (although it is necessary and helpful), but in living out what you discover. I can clarify that eating veggies, low carb, protein and healthy fats i...

    The question brings to mind exercises and programs that have surfaced throughout the decades – Values Clarification seminars and exercises; 7 Habits for Highly Effective People, etc. I love those exercises, courses and processes. I’d like to do one now that I’ve entered a new phase and stage of life. But the challenge comes not so much in clarifying (although it is necessary and helpful), but in living out what you discover. I can clarify that eating veggies, low carb, protein and healthy fats is what matters most for a healthy body. But living into that is the real challenge.

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  • Javier Visionquest
    By eliminating as many immediate distractions as possible for as long as possible. As a clear introvert (and, likely, a place somewhere within the spectrum), I find that mind, heart, and any function of the pineal I might glean to be most unified and energized in silence. Looking back at both remote and recent upsets (regardless of their being emotionally positive or negative) unhealed trauma surfaces, solutions to seemingly intractable interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts coalesce in solit...

    By eliminating as many immediate distractions as possible for as long as possible. As a clear introvert (and, likely, a place somewhere within the spectrum), I find that mind, heart, and any function of the pineal I might glean to be most unified and energized in silence. Looking back at both remote and recent upsets (regardless of their being emotionally positive or negative) unhealed trauma surfaces, solutions to seemingly intractable interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts coalesce in solitude quite naturally and with ease, and gratitude and forgiveness are exponentially amplified in the absence of a constant ambiance of minor irritations.

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    • Mica

      Thank you, Javier – indeed, one of my adult children has wanted distance from me for most of this year. In this ‘silence,’ I’ve discovered that nothing matters except my love and compassion for her [and myself]. There are no ‘upsets’ to cause me to forget this. Warm wishes to you –

      • Javier Visionquest

        Thank you, and bless you with the peace that the world, itself, is incapable of at present, Mica. Perhaps our daughters will need us again, someday. I’m sure that you’re an absolutely terrible person, as am I ♥

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