Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Enlightenment



enlightened; wisdom, clarity spiritual insight

In 2012, the word I chose as my mantra was freedom
 
My new word for this year is enlightened.  
 
For me, enlightened means...

 to expand my thinking.

Every time I learn something new, I feel enlightened.

This can be an enlightening year for you too.

Don't settle for old thinking, old habits, old anything.

Set the bar high for yourself.

 Reach for the sky.
 
 
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Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.
Peter Matthiessen
 
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"Every day brings an opportunity to learn something"