What if we treated each day as a completely new day? As if we were re-born through the night and in the morning... we have a brand new chance to get it right.Suppose you got to hit the reset button before you jumped out of bed? Maybe you could forget that insult from yesterday, that hurting from last year, that huge blunder you made last week, what you failed to do last night, blah, blah, blah. All that junk that goes around and around in our heads at a whirlwind pace if we're wound up or a sluggish, heavy, muddy mess when we're feeling blue.
Aah! Maybe we could do the same for each other. Forget what the other did, didn't do, say, didn't say. What does it matter TODAY? We should be like our pets who see the joy in every new day, every new moment.
Even the ancient Egyptians saw a new day as a sort of re-birth. Sunrise brought a completely novel day. I believe sunrise should bring me a new and fresh me. It should bring me a new start, a clean slate. Louise Hay said, "How you start your day is how you're going to live your day. And how you live your day is the way you live your life."
Waking up this morning, I smile,
Twenty four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
Twenty four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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