you are the center of the universe

Without you, the world would go on, but it would be different. How different it is because of you, is up to you.

What duality. Such an extreme between part 1 and 2 ... both should take our breath away because both are equally, wonderfully, frightfully true.

Wow! Thank you.

Thank you for these two posts. They are excellent reminders. I love your blog!

This actually feels more true for me, though I know they both are. I just love that we contain worlds. It's so apparent to me how valuable and exotic we are.

Loving this diptych, Danielle. reminds me of what my yoga teacher, Aadil Palkhivala, often says: "All of us are needed, but none of us are needed much."

This made tears well in my eyes. Apparently I am ALL OVER being not important, and needed to take a moment to know that I am. Thanks for the moment.

Thank you for this :)

It is like the universe is out to help me balance my chi today. Thanks for being such a valuable part of my experience. I live in breathless anticipation of your improvement; you are pretty good now :)

Wow.

love this.

I guess the point is I get to pick which one I want my life to mean eh? I guess that's why I am so brazen. It helps when making an impact.

i am pretty cool now that i think about... j/k, but not really... kudos, for displaying our interconnectedness. we are 1.

I love this Danielle. This resonates with me more than part one--I think because I am an at-home mom who sometimes feels unnoticed, unappreciated, unloved and even unworthy. Love this, love this, love this.

Have you ever read St. Francis & The Sow by Galway Kinnell? That's another one that "reteaches me my lovliness."

Heather

I like these two posts. The humility in knowing if I don't show up tomorrow, the world will continue. Yet the feeling and loving nature to know that if I do at least one thing today to make someone's life better, I can make an impact. I like a mantra a learned from a friend recently, "Today, I will only give and receive love."

I think true altruism is difficult. Even the sincere desire in a loving gesture or action is centered around self and the reward one gets for being of service. Like when I was writing the above about doing something today to make someones life better, I was also thinking so that if I'm NOT here tomorrow, they will miss me because of the loving thing I did today... selfish. I think the intention and motives behind my actions are where I have the most work. But its all about progress.

I love considering how my actions and feelings affect the great ocean that is the universe. I do affect things.

I am not important and important at the same time. A contradiction..

I love this all of a sudden.