Halfway? No, never (December 2023 Newsletter)

A year filled with activity - some new endeavors, some that have become a way of life. You may have become more aware that much of the work was just busy work without any soul satisfying rewards. Perhaps you started on the path to Self Realization. Some days meditation is difficult, and we put it off for another day, and yet another day. Full commitment is what is ultimately important in the attainment of personal fulfillment and dream realization. This is commitment without compromise. Difficult but simple. There is no other way, nor half way.

Do Not Love Half Lovers by Kahlil Gibran

Do not love half lovers

Do not entertain half friends

Do not indulge in works of the half talented

Do not live half a life and do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent

When you speak, do so until you are finished

Do not silence yourself to say something

And do not speak to be silent

If you accept, then express it bluntly

Do not mask it

If you refuse then be clear about it

for an ambiguous refusal

is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution

Do not believe half truths

Do not dream half a dream

Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half a drink will not quench your thirst

Half a meal will not satiate your hunger

Half the way will get you no where

Half an idea will bear you no results

Your other half is not the one you love

It is you in another time yet in the same space

It is you when you are not

Half a life is a life you didn't live,

A word you have not said

A smile you postponed

A love you have not had

A friendship you did not know

To reach and not arrive

Work and not work

Attend only to be absent

What makes you a stranger to them closest to you

and they strangers to you

The half is a mere moment of inability

but you are able for you are not half a being

You are a whole that exists

to live a life not half a life

With the holidays upon us, let’s not get caught up in the frenzy of shopping and cooking. Love and life can both be accommodated with a little buying and a little cooking. Do what feels right, and not because it’s expected of you. The recent pandemic has broken down the expectations of tradition somewhat. Lower your own expectations from your family and friends, and work. That is a good thing. Go fully in the direction you want to move, with new dreams to dream, and achieve the fullness of life now, through the holidays and into the new year.

Happy Holidays!

Sincerely and in peace,

sipra