Your thoughts influence your actions.Your perspective allows you to see, or feel, and act in your own way.
We are all unique that way; we all wonder.
Still, you keep your thoughts to yourself.
What were you thinking?
07/14/2024 j.g.l.
open space
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07/11/2024
The mind wanders.
It is all too easy to let your attention shift to something else. It happens naturally, without notice.
Inspiration and ideas form unexpectedly, and your interest easily shifts away from what you are doing to what you think you can do.
Focus.
Discipline over disruption: a concept that will lead to completion.
Save another idea for another day, perhaps even try it another way. But today, follow your original intentions.
Wait: finish what you started. There are already too many things in life that are incomplete.
07/11/2024 j.g.l.
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persistence
Patience takes time, practice takes effort.
I need to remind myself.
I tend to rush.
Persistence takes thought.
Perfection is quite probably unobtainable, and the search for such has consequences. Better to strive for the best you can do, at the time, and appreciate gradual progress as you further yourself with study, effort, and diligence.
Any talent must be nurtured.
Move slowly.
Be humble in your personal efforts and celebrate small achievements.
You will surprise yourself in time.
07/09/2024 j.g.l.
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conflict
Thoughts and feelings are confusing at times.
Blissful memories or disturbing events, even trauma, reside together in our cluttered minds.
We are what we think no matter how calm we stive to be.
Gentle meditation may alleviate the conflict, even strike away the pain, but within our self this disturbance remains.
How we deal with the inner dichotomy is never certain, yet our attempts to quell difficult instincts and emotions remain a curious battle. This is how we live; thoughtfully if nothing else.
Anxiety often contributes to a distorted perception of reality.
Only by thinking deeper will we understand all that our memory holds.
It is not always comfortable, but it is mindful.
It is how we will get through this life.
07/07/2024 j.g.l.
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night thoughts 1:19
Beyond insomnia, no
longer imagination, and
still questions.
The Moon’s mystery
need not keep you awake,
not when there are so
many earthly concerns
to occupy your mind
at 1:18 a.m.
Full Moon illuminates
our world, even through
clouds, even days later,
a sacred glow that sheds
no light on the difficulties
or dilemmas we face
time and again.
Often there are no answers.
The mysteries of the Moon
need not keep you awake,
but they will keep you alive.© 2019 j.g. lewis
