May you recognise in your life the presence,
power and light of your soul …
May you have respect for your individuality and difference.*
John O’Donohue

Uncle Ben told Peter Parker, “with great power comes great responsibility.” Some people, hoping to avoid responsibility, insist that they don’t have great power. That’s a choice, but it might undermine what we’re capable of. [Also worth a thought: with great responsibility often comes great power.]**
Seth Godin

Scientist and poet Rebecca Elson declares with delight:
We live now in the epoch of self-recognition.
We are the dawning of the universe upon itself.^
Through our species, the universe has become aware of itself,
As far as we know, a phenomenon unrepeated across the vastness of space;
What a privilege,
And what shall we do with this?

When we look closer, we see the infinite lack of repetition in
human personality and creativity, each life
with something different to bring, and
though we are often distracted by the ordinary and mundane, which
hides the wonder of our and each other’s being from us,
There are ways and means that we can employ to
reset –
Some of the best still proving to be
stillness, slowness, solitude, silence, story, and,
Just to show they don’t all begin with “s,”
Curiosity, reflection, journaling.

*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: For Solitude;
**Seth Godin’s blog: The Spiderman inversion;
^Rebecca Elson’s The Responsibility to Awe.