“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” - Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Honour the sacred

How well do you honour your own space? How much reverence do you hold for where you live, where you meditate or worship, where you work, where you eat, the planet?

So often we forget that the sacredness of any place is more about how we relate to it than about the space itself. We have the ability to bring a sense of sacredness to anywhere we are, at any time.

Connect with spirit

How consciously do you connect with spirit in your own life?

We often get so busy that we do not take the time to connect with spirit in a deliberate and meaningful way in our daily lives. We also sometimes get too caught up in the external aspects of our spirituality - thinking we have to go to a specific service or gathering, practice a particular form of prayer or meditation or do something else externally in order to tap into our spiritual connection. While any of these practices can help us access spirit, none of them are necessary.

We can connect with the Divine at any time, in any place and for any reason.

Remember our interconnectedness

How consciously interconnected do you feel toward other people, all other living creatures and our planet in your daily life?

It is so easy for us to get caught up in the illusion of separateness - we think, talk and are reminded of all the ways we are different from one another. However, most of us have had an experience in our lives where we have felt a sense of interconnectedness, not just with people we know and love, but with all of life. In those moments, we have seen and touched the depth of our spiritual nature. When we consciously tap into this, we remember that, at the deepest level, we are all one.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe