Resilience
Life has moments up down
One day royalty next a clown
Message in all the haze
Success demands being brave
Answer to winning your game
Keep going infamy or fame
Lesson on your trip
When you fall only a blip
Get slapped in the face
Other cheek heat of the race
Get up stay down
Stand tall rarely frown
Simple refrain get up again
Engage each morning then
Quality thinking keeps you on track
Not all you do it’s how you act
Choose to stay in the game
Correct missteps try again
Ribbons await a resilient soul
Bounce again refuse acting old
Last time you were knocked down what did you think and how did you react?
How did you get from there to where you are?
– Stewart Levine ©
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I have always been a seeker, always looking for the answers to what seekers ponder. I can remember Dr. Maxwell Maltz and Psychocybernetics; Dr. Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person. Moving through my legal training and practicing law the focus was always about people and how to better their lives. All that searching, reading, studying and introspective work culminated in this collection of daily readings for seekers.
My work in the world has progressed from fighting legal cases to mediating divorces to helping people understand the essentials of relationship and collaborating to these poems. How can we collaborate effectively and work with each other in harmony to create the world we seek. How can we mindfully enable this world to become a place that works for all.
My prayer is that through introspection using these poems as a guide we can all grow together in making the world the Heaven on Earth we all aspire toward.
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