...And Now...a Few More Words From Ghandi

Ok, my entire blog is inspired by Ghandi--so in the process of sorting my pile (YES! I am procrastinating again...but at least I have reached the dreaded boxes, and Franti is singing to me) I found my original Ghandi research. And so here is another centering Ghandi quote, from me to you. May it guide your 2009:

"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."

Heavy. But so inspiring. It is up to us!

What is your inspiring, guiding quote for 2009. Send it to me!

What IS My Message?

Yesterday in yoga class my teacher threw out a phrase of Ghandi's that stuck in my brain all night and all day: my life is my message. Brilliant. I found his words grabbed me and centered me. Today, all day, for every little task I did, I wondered...is THIS my message? Is THIS? If every action you take, every word you utter, everything you say and do is your message, what am I trying to say?

Those simple, clear words refocused me on what I want to matter. Not just what defines success--which I am finding more and more confusing these days--but if I had to distill my life to one message, or three, what would I want to tell humanity? What would I want to tell my friends? What would I want to tell my husband? And most of all, what would I want to pass on to my boys? 

I am a woman of too many words. But I hope that here, in my blog, still secret for now, I can begin discovering my message. I hope that as you read through it, and me, too, that as I recount my thoughts and stories and ideas, that my message will accumulate, take shape, and appear, here in the blogosphere. So that is the topic of my blog...my question from Ghandi...for me, and for you. If my life IS my message, what do I want to say?????? What do YOU want to say?