If you can quiet the chatter long enough to hear your own, still, strong inner voice 

when the worldly chaos swirls all around you and screams for your attention….



If you can trust in your quiet, knowing, heart of hearts when the shoulds of 

times past and people past scream loudly to conform or fear…….



If you can let your light shine brightly, knowing your spark 

is unique and your quest this lifetime

is to fully use it to ignite a flame to glow with the 

loving message that is yours alone to share….



If you can be steadfast in your own center of strength, when the hurts and judgments of 

the uncaring and scared attempt to diminish you and your work, 

when you can let them roll over 

and off you without latching on and letting them belittle your brilliance…….



If you can believe…really know..it is not about what you do or what you have, 

but about who you really are in the solitary moments when there is no one to impress……



If you can face the dark nights of sorrow and loss, missing unquenchably 

those taken away too soon, but nourishing yourself with the memories 

those souls shared with you and that are yours for eternity…….



If you can release the need for an illusion of control and live with a childlike curiosity and 

willingness to examine and evolve from whatever lesson the universe has seen fit to offer 

when everything inside of you wants to cry out “why me?…..



If you can slow down and let a vast boredom fill you without rushing to fill it up…

allowing yourself to sit quietly and marvel in the exquisiteness of the ordinary..

drinking in the clouds, the colors of the sunset or sunrise, the 

birds songs, the children's laughter…..



If you can quit arguing for your inadequacies and let in the magnificence 

of your gifts and the appreciation and love of your encouragers……



If you can give up indulging in what might have been and give yourself 

fully to this moment and 

the next—to each of the split seconds that make the totality of your experience…..



If you can stand in the center of your own integrity when the easy conveniences 

of society and complaintive cries of the needy furiously pull to rock your balance….. 



If you can finally accept that things are perfect, right now, exactly as 

they are, even when the world around you is trying to propel you to live in 

future realities and relive past problems…….



Then the magic of a peaceful, playful, harmonious, 

vibrant, blissful existence will fill your being. 

And, as you fully express your spark, let your flame glow…. 

You will light the way and serve as beacon for others to do the same.



Copyright 2000 Joeann Fossland