“Your Daily Dose” is a quick two minute read packed with bite-sized wisdom from all the great teachers. But you could also choose to turn it into something more… a powerful daily practice for personal growth. Give it a try!
A message from today’s meditation:
Fridays are a celebration of LOVE!
And today is specifically a celebration of YOU…
“A CELEBRATION OF WEIRD. Don’t become a spiritual zombie, devoid of passion and deep human feeling. Let spirituality become a celebration of your uniqueness rather than a repression of it. Never lose your quirkiness, your strangeness, your weirdness – your unique and irreplaceable flavour. Don’t try or pretend to be ‘no-one’ or ‘nothing’ or some transcendent and impersonal non-entity with ‘no self’ or ‘no ego’, ‘beyond the human’ – that’s just another conceptual fixation and nobody’s buying it any more. Be a celebration of what your unique expression is and stop apologising. Fall in love with this perfectly divine, very human mess that you are. There is no authority here, and no way to get life wrong. So get it all wrong. Fail, gloriously.” – Jeff Foster
“Love is all that matters. The rain falls, stars explode in silence somewhere out in the vastness of space, and here on this tiny planet someone called Earth, sometimes we meet and hold each other.” – Jeff Foster
We all have the right to choose who we want to be and use that choice to build the life that we envision. But what do we base this choice on, how did we come to the conclusion of what kind of life we want to live? Did we look outwardly until we found an example that we can emulate and say “THAT… that is who I want to be?”
This is of course a completely valid way to find our place in the world but we run the risk of making our decision based on something that looked good from a distance, without having the personal experience that understands what that life would require from us.
The other option is to look inward and learn that “there is something that I already am”, but perhaps don’t fully understand yet. Your soul already has its unique expression which can be found in exploring all of the things that light you up, that make you come alive!
I want to add that inspiring thought by, Howard Thurman:
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do that! Because what the world needs is more people who have fully come alive.” – Howard Thurman
By all means look outside of yourself for ideas on what to explore as a starting point, but check-in within yourself to understand how your soul responds. Your soul already IS a unique signature, a distinctive way of experiencing and contributing to the world. This authentic self reveals itself through the things that genuinely light you up, that make you feel most alive and engaged. Your soul’s response to different possibilities is your most reliable guide.
You are at your BEST when you understand exactly who you are, and decide to unapologetically double down on the expression of your soul.
To quote Jeff Foster once again: “Be a celebration of what your unique expression is and stop apologising. Fall in love with this perfectly divine, very human mess that you are. There is no authority here, and no way to get life wrong. So get it all wrong. Fail, gloriously.”
If you really are able to fall in love with all of YOU, you’ll become the strongest version of yourself that you have ever been! And your authentic presence will create a welcoming space that holds safety for those around you.
Mantras for embracing your weird:
- “My weirdness is my strength.” Let this mantra empower you to shed societal expectations and embrace your unique qualities.
- “I am a work in progress, beautifully messy and perfectly me.” Celebrate the journey of self-discovery and embrace the imperfections that make you who you are.
- “Every day is an opportunity to explore and express my authentic self.” Commit to living a life that explores the things that uniquely light you up.
We invite you to join our circle of love, not with a carefully curated persona, but with your wonderfully weird and messy self. Bring your quirks, your passions, and your beautiful imperfections. Here, you are loved and accepted exactly as you are.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.
Today’s LIVE meditation
https://youtu.be/VXDz8eVrP_4 2025
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https://youtu.be/hzWUJt-3abY 2023
https://youtu.be/Bo_t4aR3kdM 2021
Practice the “Daily Dose”
Let’s put it into practice! Choose what works for you – daily, once a week or whenever inspiration strikes. Putting pen to paper wires the neural pathways that will create your new habits.
1 – Affirmation
Write down your favourite affirmation on a sticky note and place it somewhere that you’ll be able to see it the whole day.
- “My weirdness is my strength.” Let this mantra empower you to shed societal expectations and embrace your unique qualities.
- “I am a work in progress, beautifully messy and perfectly me.” Celebrate the journey of self-discovery and embrace the imperfections that make you who you are.
- “Every day is an opportunity to explore and express my authentic self.” Commit to living a life that explores the things that uniquely light you up.
2 – A moment of reflection
Use today’s question as a journal prompt. If you don’t have the time to sit down and write, just take a moment to reflect on your response.
The Authority Within: Jeff Foster reminds us that “there is no authority here, and no way to get life wrong.” Reflect on the external authorities (family, society, culture, religion, etc.) that have shaped your beliefs about who you should be. What messages did you internalize about success, worthiness, and acceptable ways of living? Then shift your focus inward: What does your inner wisdom tell you about the life you want to live? If you truly believed there was no “wrong” way to be yourself, what would you dare to explore or express? What would you stop apologizing for?
3 – Quotes to share
Send a quote to someone who needs it, or share them all on social media to spread the good vibes!
4 – Q&A for deeper learning
Read through the questions and answers and write down at least one “aha moment” that clicked for you.
Q1. What does it mean to be a “spiritual zombie” and how do I avoid becoming one?
A spiritual zombie is someone who has fallen into the trap of thinking that to be spiritual means to not ever be affected by normal human emotions at all. You learn the vocabulary of detachment and “non-attachment,” and you start performing peace instead of feeling your life, mistaking a flat affect for transcendence and calling your emotional avoidance “presence.” This is spiritual bypassing, using enlightenment concepts to sidestep unresolved feelings rather than move through them, and it can look impressively calm from the outside while leaving you completely disconnected on the inside. The way to avoid this is simple, if not always easy: let yourself actually feel things. Cry when you’re sad. Feel the anger when you’re angry. Let joy be loud. Real spirituality doesn’t ask you to erase your humanity, it asks you to feel it more fully, not less.
Q2. “Cry when you’re sad. Feel the anger when you’re angry” – does that mean people around me should just get over it when I act out in anger because my anger is justified?
No, and this is an important distinction: feeling an emotion and acting it out are two different things. Being told to “feel the anger when you’re angry” is permission to feel the emotion fully, not a free pass to lash out at whoever’s nearby. Anger itself is never the problem, anger (or any emotion) is information, and it deserves to be felt rather than suppressed. But yelling at someone, or making others manage the fallout of your unprocessed feelings is a choice about behavior, and that choice is still yours to own regardless of how valid the underlying emotion was. A justified feeling doesn’t automatically justify the physical expression of it. The real invitation here is to feel your anger honestly enough to understand it, and then decide, with a clear head, how you want to communicate it in a way that doesn’t make your emotion someone else’s job to absorb. Authenticity was never meant to be a shield for harming the people around you, it’s meant to help you stop hiding from yourself.
Q3. How do I know if I’m following my authentic path or just copying someone else’s success?
The key difference lies in your internal response. When you’re copying someone else, you might feel excited about the external rewards but disconnected from the day-to-day reality of that path. Authentic paths can certainly still be hard work and feel very challenging, but if you’re aligned with your being then even the hard work will energize you and feel like a natural expression of who you are. Ask yourself: “Does this light me up from the inside, or am I drawn to it because of how it looks from the outside?” Your soul’s genuine enthusiasm is your most reliable compass.
Q4. What if my “weirdness” isn’t socially acceptable or might hurt my career?
This is a fair concern, and the answer isn’t to bulldoze through every professional norm in the name of authenticity. There’s a difference between your core weirdness – the interests, humor, perspective, and energy that make you you – and the specific ways you choose to express it in a given context. You can be fully yourself in a boardroom without cracking the same jokes you’d make with close friends, just like you’d naturally adjust your volume in a library without feeling like you’re betraying who you are. That’s not selling out, it’s discernment.
Q5. How can I “fail gloriously” without being irresponsible?
“Failing gloriously” isn’t a license to be careless, it’s an invitation to stop letting the fear of failure keep you small. There’s a real difference between reckless failure, where you ignore consequences, skip preparation, or disregard the people counting on you, and glorious failure, where you take a genuine risk in the direction of growth, give it everything you have, and it still doesn’t work out the way you planned. The “glorious” part isn’t about the outcome, it’s about the fact that you showed up fully and tried anyway, instead of playing it safe out of fear. You can absolutely fail gloriously while still being responsible: do your homework, consider who else is affected by your choices, and make sure the risk you’re taking is yours to take. What makes a failure glorious is how you meet it afterward, whether you use it as proof that you should shrink back, or as information that helps you try again, wiser this time. Responsibility and boldness aren’t opposites, the most glorious failures usually come from people who took real risks thoughtfully, not from people who acted without thinking at all.
Q6. How do I deal with people who don’t accept my authentic self?
First, it’s worth getting clear about what we actually mean by “authentic self,” because the term gets misused often. If you’re in the habit of publicly unleashing every emotion the moment it arises, that’s usually not your authentic self speaking, it’s more likely younger, wounded parts of you reacting out of old pain, not wisdom. Authenticity isn’t the same as unfiltered reactivity. Real authenticity is the expression of your soul, your deeper wisdom, the qualities and gifts that are genuinely yours to bring into the world. Once you’re actually operating from that place, it’s true that not everyone will receive it warmly, and that’s something to make peace with rather than fight. Some people will feel challenged by your growth, threatened by your clarity, or simply won’t be a match for who you’re becoming, and that’s not necessarily a sign you’re doing something wrong. The work is to keep checking in honestly with yourself: am I expressing something true and wise, or am I just reacting? If it’s the former, let go of needing everyone’s approval, the right people will meet you there. If it’s the latter, that’s not a rejection of your authentic self, it’s useful feedback that there’s still healing to do.
Q7. Can embracing my weirdness really make me stronger, or is this just feel-good advice?
Embracing your authentic self creates genuine strength because it eliminates the exhausting energy drain of pretending to be someone you’re not. When you’re not constantly monitoring and adjusting your behavior to fit others’ expectations, you have more energy available for creativity, connection, and pursuing what matters to you. Additionally, your unique perspective and approaches become assets rather than liabilities. Nobody ever did anything remarkable by being exactly like everyone else, the most meaningful contributions often come from people who dare to be different. Your “weirdness” isn’t just acceptable – it’s often your greatest strength.