Daily Meditation: Tuesday, August 20, 2002

You sometimes hear people talk about someone as having lost …

08/20/2002

You sometimes hear people talk about someone as having lost their human dignity, or someone else who was able to keep their dignity. The concept of dignity is not always clear to many people and so it is often confused with pride or arrogance. No, true human dignity is about respecting everything God has given us, our physical body first of all, but also our heart, our intellect, our soul and our spirit. As disciples of a spiritual teaching you must get the idea firmly fixed in your mind that you are a temple, a tabernacle of the Eternal which only pure food, pure thoughts, words, and feelings must enter or leave. If you do not watch what enters or leaves you, if you give in to anything that comes along, become involved in just anything, say or think just anything, you cannot be conscious of your true human dignity.