Love is My Guide

I honor my integrity and the integrity of others. I am guided by love. I allow myself to feel the love that is guiding others. Like the earth, I enjoy seasons of renewal. I forgive shortcomings and failures, arrogance and shortsightedness. I allow such human foibles to be dissolved in the graceful flow of life ongoing. Life is a river which flows through me, washing me clean of judgment, cleansing me with the waters of compassion. I allow life to be both tender and clear. I choose the longer view of wisdom over the more short-lived satisfaction of being "right."

– Julia Cameron
Excerpted from Heart Steps:
Prayers and Declarations for a Creative Life
p. 102-103

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• The Choice (and Risk) That is Love
• The Many Manifestations of God's Loving Embrace
• Love as "Quest and Daring and Growth"
• Quote of the Day – October 5, 2010
• Getting It Right
• Like a Sure Thing
• The Longing for Love: God's Primal Beatitude
• Love as Exploring Vulnerability
• The Art of Surrender
• The Gravity of Love
• To Be Held and To Hold
• To Know and Be Known
• "I Want You to Become a Part of Me – Each to Become a Part of the Other"
• In the Garden of Spirituality – James B. Nelson
• Passion, Tide and Time
• Quote of the Day – September 11, 2012
• Love is Love
• Love at Love's Brightest
• Dew[y]-Kissed
• What We Mean by Love

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