It's not about you...

If you can notice a thought, 

you know that thought isn't you.

You are not thoughts;
yet thoughts come to you
for love.

Do not be a slave to the mind,
yet do not fight the mind
or try to 'silence' it.

Instead, be its home, its sanctuary,
its lover, its protector.

Give it permission to sing.

And it will be your most loyal servant and friend.

- Jeff Foster

Once you know that your life is not about you, then you can also trust that your life is your message. This gives you an amazing confidence about your own small life--precisely because it is no longer a small life, it is no longer just yours, and it is not all in your head. Henceforth, you do not try to think yourself into a new way of living, but you first live in a new way, from a new vantage point--and your thinking changes by itself.

"I live no longer, not I," Paul shouted with his one daring life (Galatians 2:20). And this one-man show turned a Jewish sect into a worldwide religion. Paul allowed his small life to be used by the Great Life, and that is finally all that matters. Your life is not about you. It is about God and about allowing Life and Death to "be done unto me," which is Mary's prayer at the beginning of her journey and Jesus' prayer at the end of his.   ~R. Rohr