How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological And Spritual Integration

I ask for what I want and let the chips fall where they may.

I ask for what I want from others and let go of my insistence that they provide it.

I allow others to say No to me and take it as information.

When something still has the power to move us, it must have been love all along, since love moves the earth and other stars.

Every risk is a challenge to love more.

Meditation

Meditation provides a break from concentration on goals. In meditation we get in touch with that place in ourselves where we are perfect without having to do anything. The opposite of this is being attached to planning, analyzing, controlling, and trying to make things come out our way

“I open myself to inner messages.” “I am ready to know what I need to know.”

“I acknowledge my imagination as a faculty of healing.”

III. Dialogue with the image in writing, drawing, or movement without interpreting it.

Here is a threefold technique that may facilitate the process. First, focus on the concern or question throughout the day and as you fall asleep. Second, ask your inner mind for an answer, and, third, promise a gift of thanks if you receive one. The gift can be a favor to someone, a volunteering of time, a donation, etc.

Hidden in everything negative is something alive and beautiful that wants to belong to us

We expend effort and then grace takes over.

If integration means wholly containing a process, then, as St. Catherine of Siena says, “All the way to heaven is heaven.” We are complete now and all along the path.

From now on, every time I judge myself (or others), I will use the technique of adding four more adjectives that are also somehow true!”