Inward

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Be self-aware. 

See your own flaws as clearly as you see your enemies. 

Love your strengths like you love your heroes. 

Come home to yourself. 

The Symphony: Elements of Life

Be like the breeze.

Have the ability to tread lightly, laugh airily, and flit from place to place.

Be like the flame.

Have it in you to burn steady, singe the unwary, and light up a murky corner.

Be like the dewdrop.

See clearly that your beauty is momentary, transient…and all the more amazing for it.

Be like the stone.

Allow the passage of time to make you more nuanced, more adaptive, more wondrous.

Be like the snowflake.

Know that there is no-one else quite like you but that we’ll all end up melted together eventually.

Be like the sun.

Flaunt your light occasionally but know when to fall back and rest quietly in the darkness.

Be like the moonshine.

Make sure you shimmer and glimmer with no real objective whatsoever sometimes.

Be like the ocean.

Combine the deep and the shallow within yourself.

Be like the cave.

Have mysteries and dark corners and shadows within yourself that others cannot reach easily.

Be like the bud.

Celebrate your potential and the roots that make it possible for you to bloom.

Be like the grass.

Let superfluous and unwanted bits of yourself be trimmed and fall away, unmourned.

Be like the snowpeak.

Exist for yourself first, for the sheer heady bliss of being…be your own zenith.

Be like the sand.

Learn to shape yourself for someone else, grain by grain, to achieve harmony.

Be like the cliff.

Embrace change and the ravages of the world…they make you impressive, they make you real.

Be like the symphony.

Weave together all your elements to create pure magic.

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