What Is Growth
Taking responsibility for your life as it unfolds day by day.
Learning to love without attaching the strings of expectation.
Establishing intimate communications with trustworthy others.
Treasuring your self-esteem for the special gift that it is.
Acting with the integrity that flows from highly developed principles.
Discovering the abundance of bright green grass on your side of the fence.
Mastering the discouraging fears of unknown tomorrow's.
Planning for the future without living in it.
Forgoing new dreams from lessons learned.
Moving beyond the quest for material possessions.
Pursuing aspirations without compulsion or unnecessary attachment.
Floating through changes with fewer disruptions to your well being.
Creating a more positive and balanced existence every day.
Seeking a generous measure of peace and contentment wherever you are.
Treating each unique moment as a cherished memory to come.
Lifting someone else's spirits when pain enters that person's world.
Trading smugness and complacency for enthusiasm and innovation.
Feeding your spirit with love, play, compassion, hope and prayer.
Working with others without seeking power over them.
Understanding the lack of true perfection in all of us.
Accepting yourself for who you are this very instant.
Sensing and utilizing the unseen benevolent forces that surround us.
Overcoming the desire to live another's life by learning to honor their truth.
Teaching what you know with humility as your own awareness expands.
Eliminating the arrogance that knowledge occasionally brings.
Seeing the fullness of life rather than too much emptiness.
Welcoming the honest input of friend or perceived foe.
Spending time with yourself and your higher power.
Moving diligently toward the light of knowingness.
Releasing whatever hold guilt had on your life.
Validating all feelings and experiences as real.
Forgiving yourself and others for being human.
Serving mankind in your own special way.
Living gratefully within your means.
Letting go of past disappointments.
Finding a personal spirituality.
Jack Clark
Karma's Korner