“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to do to make inspiration your guest?
Month: March 2019
“To straighten the crooked
you must first do a harder thing –
straighten yourself.
You are the only master. Who else?
Subdue yourself,
and discover your master.”
Question for Meditation: Who or what is your master?
“Those who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps.”
Question for Meditation: What steps do you need to take to reach your goals?
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
Question for Meditation: Can you make inspiration happen?
“Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
Question for Meditation: What are you training for?
“Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to let go of to perform your work well?
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore, the brothers should have specified periods for manual labor as well as for prayerful reading.”
Question for Meditation: How do you order your life? How do you stick to that order?
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the ability to say no to oneself.”
Question for Meditation: What is the fruit of your discipline?
“When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.”
Question for Meditation: What is God commanding you to do, and how will you carry that out?
“That something is difficult must be a reason the more to do it.”
Question for Meditation: What difficult thing do you need to take on this week?
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