--from my extensive collection of license plates and their frames. This one belongs to a nearby dermatologist...
Self-care messages are all around us...
And let's start with ourselves...
Found this version just now on MLK's holiday and Inauguration Day.
...and like M. J. tells us...start with the man in the mirror...
Skin Deep - "Underneath we all look the same..."
Buddy Guy's song opens with this reminder...
Buddy reminds us that we need to practice the Golden Rule...knowing it, is not enough...
I sat my little child down
when he was old enough to know
I said out there in this big wide world
You're gonna meet all kinds of folks
I said son it all comes down to just one simple rule
That you treat everybody just the way
You want them to treat you
Happened upon this next gem when I called my dermatologist to reschedule my annual skin check...See, my MUSE is on duty 24/7.
Gimme me some Extra Skin...
Deeper still...your original face...
[from the next link] There is a famous Zen koan that asks, “What is your original face, the face you had before you were born?”
Waking up is not about copying anyone or anything. It can’t be. Because as soon as we are mimicking something, we are recycling someone else’s experience. We are one step removed from the source; we are no longer rooted in our own moment-to-moment revelatory experience.
My basic point here is that the more we discover our own Original Face, the face we had before we were born, the more confident we become in expressing ourselves in unique ways. In a sense, great spiritual teachers feel to me like great “artists of the spirit.” And like an inspired musician, poet, or painter, a spiritual artist knows that he or she must spend time in the space of not knowing and then trust the melodies, visions, words, and guidance that come through.
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