Forty years ago, I gave a speech to high school students.  I called it Mastery of the Moment: Fifteen Attitude Choices.  I don’t remember their reactions.

I gave them little yellow laminated cards with the choices listed, hoping a piece of paper would make a difference in their lives.  I pray that for some of them it did.

I put one of those cards in my wallet.  Although particular wallets have come and gone, the card is still there.

Most of the old words still vibrate in my soul.  Here they are:

1.  Love – indifference, antagonism

2.  Sufficiency – deficiency, scarcity

3.  Source internal – source external

4.  Acceptance – resistance

5.  Letting go of – holding on to

6.  Inclusion – exclusion

7.  You and me – you or me

8.  Oneness – me / not me

9.  Person – thing

10.  Enhance – diminish

11.  No comparison – comparison

12.  Action – reaction

13.  Opportunity, no problem – problem

14.  Immense – focused

15.  Love – indifference, antagonism

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Time flies!