Gill Edwards: “I believe that our first responsibility is to make our own lives work.”

Mike Dooley has a more detailed statement: “Our first responsibility in life is not to make the world a better place or to tend to the less fortunate but to live up to our own high standards, to act with faith that our dreams are meant to be and to maintain a tolerance and compassion for our own divine journey.”

Dooley indeed confirms we are made to the image and likeness of God. It strengthens my belief that before we came to this life we knew what we were supposed to do. We knew who we were. But we forgot everything when we came to this life. Forgetfulness just may be the Original Sin of religion.

I certainly like Dooley’s statement. It heals me of the compelling social burden imposed by both the Church and the school during all my past. I learned from both Gill Edwards and Mike Dooley in my late 60s!!!

“By being so responsible to ourselves, the world will become a better place and those around you will richly benefit not just from the love you’d share but for the example you become.”       (Dooley)

Carolyn Myss is even kinder:”Spiritual instruction teaches us to keep our focus on ourselves – not in an egocentric way but as a way of consciously managing our energy and power.”

Carolyn Myss may as well teach mental hygiene!!!!! She could very well prevent depressions.