Years ago I inherited a book from my mom called Notes to Myself: My struggle to become a person, by Hugh Prather. I pick it up many times a week and flip it open to a random page and read the entry. It almost always calms my jittery energy and grounds me in my life.
I’ll share some excerpts from this book from time to time, as there is no book that more effectively connects me to my soul.
Here is a passage that deeply resonated with me this morning:
As I look back on my life, one of the most constant and powerful things I have experienced is the desire to be more than I am at the moment - an unwillingness to let my mind remain in the pettiness where it idles - a desire to increase the boundaries of my self - a desire to feel more, learn more, express more - a desire to grow, improve, purify, expand. I used to interpret this inner push as meaning that there was some one thing out there that I wanted to do or be or have. And I have spent too much of my life trying to find it. But now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion, more than even pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.
My thoughts and prayers this morning are with the many people that will suffer from the winter storm, and the people of Minneapolis fighting against tyranny to preserve human rights.
🙏🏼 ~ Eric