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I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE LIKE ME

Someone paid me a high compliment. She said, "I want you to know how often your process of being yourself has helped me in my process of being me."

Yes! I don't want her to be like me, and I don't want YOU to be like me.

I want you to be like you—to the fullest, deepest, most magnificent and sacred and idiosyncratic extent.

And another thing: I love it when you create your own fantastic, unprecedented reality. It inspires me to make my own.

GO WITH WHAT FLOW?

When they say, "Go with the flow," what "flow" are they talking about?

Do they mean the flow of our early childhood conditioning? The flow of our friends' opinions? The latest cultural trends? Our immediate instinctual needs?

When they say, "Go with the flow," are they urging us to keep doing what's easiest to do and hinders us from being faithful to our soul's code?

Consider the possibility that there are many flows to go with, but only one or some are righteous.

Do you know which?

Maybe it's the one streaming through an underground cavern, far from the frantic crowd.

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THANKS FOR MAKING MY LIFE BETTER

Proposed experiment: Once every three weeks or so, deliver the following paean to someone—but only if you really mean it:  

“Thank you for making my life better. Thank you for helping me be my authentic self.” 

LOVE CUES AND CLUES: TAKING A LOVE INVENTORY

I invite you to survey the history of your love life, starting with the first time you fell in love.

Stream the memories across your mind's eye as if you were watching a movie. Feel all the feelings roused by each scene, and also try to maintain objectivity about it all. Be affectionately compassionate toward yourself and your co-stars.

If you're game, take an inventory. For each partner you have had, beginning with your earliest lover, write about the following subjects:

• Why were you attracted to the person?

• Why were they attracted to you?

• What aspects of your relationship worked?

• What aspects of your relationship didn't work?

• What qualities in you kept the relationship from continuing on forever?

• What qualities in them kept the relationship from continuing on forever?

• What were the valuable lessons you learned from the relationship?

• What behavior did you engage in then that you vow never to do again? 

• Have there been any recurring patterns from relationship to relationship? Any mistakes you've made more than once?

This inventory may show you what you've been dense about. It could motivate you to graduate from self-sabotaging behavior and unconscious patterns that have up until now diminished your ability to create the kind of togetherness you want.

The inventory may also might also demonstrate how wise you have been in some of your acts of love and intimacy. That's valuable information, too.

MY PRAYERS FOR YOU

An interviewer once asked me if I perform any special ritual before sitting down to compose my horoscopes.  

I told her I say a prayer in which I affirm my desire to provide you, dear Beloved Champions, with these five services:

• that what I offer will be of practical use to you

• that it will help you cultivate your relationship with your inner teacher—or rather, to borrow an Emily Dickinson gambit, with your Inner Teacher

• that it will inspire you to tap into and use the substantial freedom you have to create the life you want

• that it will stimulate you to feel joy at giving your best gifts to those who need them the most

• that it will help you understand that you always have more help at your disposal  than you realize; knowing that will liberate you to ask uninhibitedly for that help

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