Compassionate Awareness

I have read and re-read the following several times lately and want to share it with you.  It comes from Compassionate Awareness:Living Life to the Fullest  by Adolfo Quezada:

As we move toward oneness with ourselves, the energies of our body, mind, and soul converge.  We sense that our body needs to be touched, fed, and exercised.  We know that our mind must be taught, stretched intellectually, and challenged creatively.  We believe in the ability of our soul to soar with the angels and penetrate the depths of spiritual mysteries.  As we tend to each of these parts, we tend to the whole.  …..Our internal oneness is the consequence of our prayer and meditation.  We stop to give rest to the parts and to allow them to consolidate.  We examine our external life to ensure its congruence with our inner life…...  The rhythm of our life is giving and receiving, and the balance of the two is the way of creation.  First, we open to the seed, the rain, and the sun before we can offer up the fruit.  We are earth and water, fire and air.  We are matter and we are spirit.  We destroy and we give life.  We die to the old and are born to the new.  Life and death complete our oneness.