Use your senses in order to stay connected to the present. List the following:
5 things you can see
4 things you can hear
3 things you can touch
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can taste
Focus on details you would normally neglect. Sometimes you can do this by imagining you are seeing certain objects, eating certain foods for the first time and being curious about every aspect of them, experiencing them anew.
“You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you’ve been”.
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
“If the outer world is to be transformed, the process must begin within. If the inner world is to be transformed, it must be understood in light of the outer forces that shaped it”.
“Secrets are the stones
That sink the boat
Take them out look at them
Throw them out and float”
“Look what was shown by the stars
At night across the fields
I am not defined by scars
But by the incredible ability to heal”
“I am not defined by darkness
Confided the night
Each dawn I am reminded
I am defined by light”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
