Between 600 and 500 B.C., the prophet Isaiah wrote, "The wolf and the lamb shall lie down together..."
The lion and the lamb... We all have an inner lion and inner lamb. We cannot operate from one or the other all the time. True spiritual living is making a place for both the lion and the lamb to reside. The lamb is vulnerability, kindness, nurturing, but too much can put us into victimhood. The lion is the driven, hard-working side.
The lamb reminds us that it is okay to ask for affection, to ask for love. But we need the lion to get things done.
We seek to live in freedom, the lion and the lamb. We seek to live consciously. We are preparing to face the "Big One".
"Yesterday is forever past. We cannot relive it. No matter how much we may regret yesterday, it is impossible to live it over again, but too often in our imagination we do live it over and over again." -- Ernest Holmes
This is the power of the imagination. We remember the past and the kinesthetic feeling gets triggered in us.
Art Buchwald wrote, "We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia where everyone thinks yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was! And I would advise you not to wait ten years to admit that today was great. Pretend today was yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time."
