The Spirit in Wellness

How are you today? Last weekend millions of people were feeling great physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Where you one of those millions of people?  On Friday I had completed reading “With Head and Heart”, the autobiograpy of Howard Thurman, the Dali Lama was streaming from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and Pope Benedict had arrived in New York. It could only get better if Daisaku Ikeda had arrived from Japan and they were all meeting with Dr. King and Mahatmas Ghandi!  Dr. King carried with him and read passages from Thurman’s book, ” Jesus and the Disinherited” during the course of his life.  Howard Thurman had a private meeting in India with Ghandi. He also met with Dr. King when he was in the hospital for the treatment of an almost fatal stab wound.

All of these great human beings believed and believe in the connection between Spirit and one’s inner spirit and wellness/health. In his address at the U.N.,  Pope Benedict spoke about discernment and ‘the possibility of a social order respectful of the dignity and right of the person….conversion of the heart…’.

More Heart and Spirit

I’m now reading “Meditations of the Heart” by Howard Thurman. In it he wrote, ‘We express our dislike for things, sometimes for people, when we do not undestand the things we pretend to dislike;….. ’

‘If I knew you and you knew me,

And each of us could clearly see

By that inner light divine

The meaning of your heart and mine;

I’m sure that we would differ less

And clasp our hands in friendliness,

If you knew me, and I knew you’

How are you? How do you feel? Spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically?  What is the connection for you?

Enjoy some alone time by taking a short walk before breakfast, after dinner, or both.~Put down your car keys and walk or bike to the corner store.~Pace while talking on the telephone and stand while writing e-mails.~take the dog for a walk or run-you’ll both benefit!

  February 1, 2008                 L♥ve Your Heart