Secrets

Secrets keep me sick.

I will listen and share and be well.

Life's Secret

Love is our true destiny.
We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation in our own isolated meditations.
The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to us in love, by the one we love.

Thomas Merton

Elder's Meditation -- Secrets

It is said, when we need love the most is when we deserve it the least.
Whenever I have secret thoughts about someone else, it will put bad feelings inside myself.
I will hurt myself.
If I secretly hold a grudge or resentment against my brother or sister, I will be a slave to that person until I let them go.
Let me remember to look at my brother in a sacred manner.
Today, let me think like a Warrior.
Let my thoughts toward my brothers and sisters be good thoughts.
Let me remember that You are in charge.
If I get upset at another person today, let me remember that the most important thing I can do is to first talk to You because, when I am right with You, it is impossible to be out of harmony with my brothers and sisters.

My Creator, take my hand and

guide me through today.

Elder's Meditation -- Our Secrets

We are as sick as our secrets.
Our ego takes over control of our lives and when that happens our minds get very sick.
Then we hurt people and our minds will always justify our actions.
Our minds will give us rationalization and excuses that we are justified in doing what we are doing.

My Creator, Let me live today with an open heart.

Let me realize to be vulnerable

is a strength, not a weakness.

Let me realize the power of an open heart.

Let me be available to truth.

If I get into trouble,

let me hear the whisper of your guidance.

Let me make heart decisions and

let my head catch up to that decision.