Text: Friday, July 16, 2004 (7:33 AM) Daily Quado: A reader asks: When I was 10, I promised myself to leave the world better than it was at the moment I came to the world. In my natal chart I have a strong emphasis on my career and working life. I am unemployed at this moment and I don't know what to do for a living, for earning money. I have tried several jobs, and none worked out. At this moment I stopped searching for a job, but I have to do something to earn money and still I don't know what. I try to connect on a daily basis with my heart energy, my source for healing, peace of mind and guidance. I am so tired of not knowing, not feeling what to do in the society, how to earn my money for a living, not knowing where I fit. Quado responds: Imagine that I took you out under the midnight sky and pointed out a star in the distance and told you that this star bore your name and that you were to spend your life following it, using it as a guide to set your direction. You would look out in wonder at the mountain ranges, lakes and even oceans which lay between you and that star. And you would begin walking. And along the way, you would make many choices. Will you go around the base of that mountain or climb over the top? Will you take the advice of guides along the way or travel mostly alone? Will you stop here and there to raise a family and fulfill other dreams of the physical life, or will you keep walking with one purpose in mind? And as you travel, making your choices, following that star, there will be times when the fog lives heavy across the land and you cannot get even a glimpse of your star. And at these times, you will use your intuition and you will use your memory of that star¹s position. And you will again have other choices, the choice to sit down and wait for the fog to lift, not knowing when that might be, or the choice to keep walking. And at times you will notice that your star¹s position seems to shift with the seasons and this will be discouraging indeed. But yet, you will keep walking and making your choices. And along the way, you will encounter challenging situations and will deal with them as best you can. And how you deal with these challenges, and how you deal with the people you encounter and the relationships which are there to be built, will build your character and make you either weaker and more fearful or stronger and more confident. You will walk through your life with grace and a deep internal peace or you will walk through in fear and wondering, in frustration and in despair. And all of this will happen in its own time. But if you look to each encounter as something which is there for a reason, if you look at each event as an opportunity to build your character and your strength, to move from being a person who lives in fear to a person who lives in love and peace, then you will do well. For this is the greatest challenge in life, to keep going, in the winter snows as well as the summer days, in the howling storm when the star has faded from sight as well as the blessed spring evening in which it shines out so brightly. And to learn to do this with a peace deep inside, a peace which reminds you that all is as it should be, that the rhythm of your steps is the rhythm of the universe and that it is, after all, the journey which matters. For in the end, you will never truly reach that star. And your life will be a story of the steps you have taken and the people you have affected along the way. As you walk, look around you. What people crossed your path? How did you deal with them? Did you leave their world better than it was before they met you? This is the way to fulfill your promise to yourself. Not through great pronouncements and great accomplishments which are lauded in the newspapers and splashed across the television screen, but with thousands of acts of kindness spread out across a lifetime of love, guided by a star in the sky and a feeling deep in your heart. Do not spend your days staring at the ground or sitting down in discouragement and confusion. Do something. Get out of the house and do something new. Meet new people. Ask: how can I serve? What can I do to help this person right here, right now? What can I do today which will make life a little nicer, my life and that of the people around me? Do this and you have done enough. Do this every moment of every day for your entire life and you will look up one day and see that you have accomplished many, many great things, one moment at a time, one step at a time. You will look back and see the mountains traversed and the oceans sailed, but most of all you will see the string of grateful hearts, the people you have touched and blessed just by your peaceful, loving and compassionate presence. This is a life well-lived indeed. If you have a question you believe might interest other Quado readers, please send it to carriehart@msn.com Visit www.carriehart.com for meditation CDs, healing services, music and more. This newsletter is distributed free of charge. Just send an email with Subscribe or Unsubscribe as the subject to carriehart@msn.com . Copyright 2004 by Systematique, Inc.

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