FEELING THE POWER
The Seven Challenges that Transform Your Life
THE SEVEN CHALLENGES
We are channels of awareness
giving meaning to what flows through.
Trust
Keep your awareness open to pleasure and pain, and,
as you let them flow through, notice
the pleasure lasting and the pain passing.
Faith
Let yourself belong with whatever or
whoever, for the most part, helps
the pleasure to last and the pain to pass.
Dignity
Let your choices be guided by
the pleasure and pain you feel
in their consequences in the long run.
Mutuality
Share with others the power to
increase the pleasure and decrease the pain
for all those in agreement with the choice.
Creativity
Claim your place in the cycle of renewal
where pain signals what is passing to make way
for the pleasure of new life.
Intimacy
Discover the paradoxical pleasure
where vulnerability to pain
draws you close to another.
Community
Awaken to the pleasure and pain
of the whole world
happening inside yourself.
As long as the channel is open,
all is well.