My Mantras

Each day I say to myself a number of things.  Some are those I had said the day before and some I have been saying for years, though they do not always seem so old.  In hearing them they are affirmed, or they show why they may be less worth repeating on the following day.  I say also to myself some newer things, and at times I am surprised by their presence.  They seem not to derive from places within me, nor do they fit so well with the older sayings.  Yet both the new and the old, even when contradictory, are mine.