My Life Philosophy: A Poem

it all begins with you

It is only once we know ourselves that we can know our gifts and our faults.

It is only once we acknowledge our gifts and faults, that they become our tools.

It is only once we honor our tools that we can learn how to use them to grow, improve, and discern distraction from true fulfillment. 

When we can do this, we can master ourselves.

And when we master ourselves we can understand and honor our power and wisdom.

And when we honor our own power and wisdom, we can understand and appreciate the masterpiece that is another.

And it is only then, that we can truly know another, connect with them, and coexist.

We can only truly understand what is outside of ourselves if we have a reference for it within. 

  Start with you. Become that which you long for.      Life has a way  of working out the rest.