After a particularly challenging day today mentally, I got my daily quote from terrific Waking Up app and it hit pretty hard:

So much has been given to me I have not the time to ponder that which has been denied.

-Helen Keller

I continue struggle with my longtime goal of establishing a daily meditation practice, but even if I don’t fit my 10 minutes a day in, I find that my mind is always pondering the lessons I’m learning through the app. Maybe especially so as part time practitioner, I find the daily quotes especially to be both grounding and enlightening.

Today’s quote coming when it did really gave me the perspective shift that I really needed.

It’s so easy to focus on all the things that are keeping me down. To get lost in the things that I didn’t accomplish yesterday or won’t accomplish tomorrow. It’s much harder for me to see all that I have and all that I have done.

So tonight, I’ll be taking a breath, thinking about all that I has been given to me, and remember that its okay to reset and begin again.