Being Present

"Bring in your scattered parts, be present at all levels of your consciousness." Howard Thurman

Again the advice to be present and to be conscious, but what are our scattered parts?  Thurman may have been referring to something Carl Jung taught:  that we need to recognize all the part of our personality in order to be fully whole.  Part of the human journey, for some people, is to recognize our "shadow" parts -- those parts that we find socially unacceptable.  It seems in that journey it is important for us to recognize that we are capable, given the right circumstances, to behave in any way any human has ever behaved.  We may think we are above selling our bodies for money, but what if that were the only way to feed our child?  We may think we are above killing another human, but how many times do we wound another person through our words, said or unsaid?  Today, let us be willing to bring in our scattered and neglected parts, so that we may live in higher consciousness.