Lionheartedness

“And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Don’t crave immediate results. Take the difficult route which puts your patience under fire and upgrades your lionheartedness.”― Hiral Nagda

With the year fresh and intentions at peak, remember what’s good already.
What doesn’t need to changed or fixed.
Our math is bad – counting only what is missing and not what is overflowing.
Growth and change keep us engaged in life.
We are a work in progress, a painting never complete.
Starts, middles, ends. Start again.
Giving and receiving.
There are hard paths but not everything needs to be hard.
Remember to rest, reflect, rejuvenate regularly.
Be kind to yourself and to others. Be kind!
Relax and find wonder in each day.
Slow down and pause to let joy in.
Long paths, ordinary days, doing the work and the play all make up the journey and the destination.
You have arrived and are not done.
Keep going and growing.
Move out into each day with grace, lightness, hope and lots of humor.
Lionheartedness in bloom.

“Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.” – Anne Lamott