Draw a card from six themes (the self, the shadow, relationships, work, body and home, spirit), from the Moon's phase, the day's planet or the Wheel of the Year, or draw a spread of three or five: the three doors of self, shadow and spirit, the sky of today, or five fields of a life. Write to each for three, five or ten minutes with a timer ring, and keep it in your journal. A question of the day, a twelve-week calendar, your streak and every reflection you have kept, which you can read again and write to once more. Take an evening review as the Stoics, the Ignatian Examen or the Golden Verses taught it. A rose of petals shows how much you have written to each kind of question, so the places you have not yet looked stand out, and the words you keep returning to gather in a cloud of their own.
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“Know thyself”, the old words over the door at Delphi.
THE SELF
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Baḥya ibn Paquda, Duties of the Heart, about 1080
A reckoning of deeds and duties.
Sources: Jewish Encyclopedia, “Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda”; Dafyomi.co.il, “Shaar Cheshbon HaNefesh”
A few things to do with this tool, from a first try to a habit. Each one you tick counts as practice for the day, towards your streak and milestones.
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