Circle of Trust

I wanted to start the day by saying how grateful I am for you guys coming out and joining me this morning. I also would like to share a quote from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius that I’ve been thinking about lately:

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I eel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.

While the first part doesn’t necessarily ring as true when I start the day with y’all, this reminds me of Dark Helmet saying that in every disagreement remember you’re both a little bit right and both a little bit wrong. We all share the same human nature and the same divine life. Go out and do something good today.