Accept your failings with grace. Never regret or grow discouraged with any good you tried to accomplish but didn’t, even if not succeeding felt like a weakness to you. You will, in some way, be rewarded for any effort where your intentions are good. . . no matter what the outcome.

Women’s physical beauty peaks in their twenties. Later, many attempt to hold on to their looks by using more make-up, dressing differently, or having surgical procedures. They put a high priority on appearance because they are apprehensive entering their later years. They fear losing their attractiveness.

Women reach peak spiritual beauty later in life. They come into this world with a spirituality and sensitivity greater and deeper than most men. Each year can bring a woman greater insight into herself, her world, and the spiritual energy in and around her. Women who mature with a higher priority on spirituality over physicality have a bouquet in their life rather than a single flower from their youth.

Women and men can both become pregnant, as we are all fertile. When pregnancy occurs, you can feel the life inside you grow until it is ready to come into the world. And when it does, you will name it your idea.

Many religions believe in a dichotomy between the physical and spiritual: To reach the highest levels of spirituality, one must distance ourselves from the physical. The more separate we can become, the more spiritual we can become.

Yet the highest forms of spirituality can come through physicality. We were given the physical world as a gift, so accept it and embrace it! Take a meal and make it a festivity. Take any act and elevate it to a higher level. By infusing our activities – whether eating, playing or working – with spirituality, we become closer to the One. And that is the essence of life.