In what ways do I try to have my actions genuinely reflect my values?

by not superimposing on others what I think is right for them. Instead …simply sharing art, poetry, music which transcends “opinions” but does, (with intension), ‘genuinely reflect my values”

for example …..a poem by St John of the Cross….with introduction words.

Whilst his poems are great works in their own right they are also poems of encounter. They speak of a lover who has moved on and for whom we must seek, finding our way in the darkness:

The reason we seek is because we have already known the touch of the Beloved. For St John the whole world has known this touch.

Mine are the heavens
and mine is the earth.

Mine are the nations,
the just are mine and mine the sinners. The angels are mine,
and the Mother of God, and all things are mine; and God himself is mine and for me,

because Christ is mine and all for me.

What do you ask, then, and seek, my soul? Yours is all of this, and all is for you.

Do not engage yourself in something less,
nor pay heed to the crumbs which fall from your Father’s table.

Go forth and exult in your Glory!
Hide yourself in It and rejoice,

and you will obtain the deepest desires of your heart.