Day 42: Declarations
1. Today I have understood that my salvation lay within me. Our best is within.
2. Today I hold the keys to my own destiny, for I have the power to decide what I do with my life, good or bad. =
3. Today I have honored all agreements, kept all promises, worked hard with precision, and have been fair, just, and true.
4. Today I have lived in right relationship with the Earth and human and non-human relatives.
5. Today I have honored my family.
6. Today I have worked hard and spoken little, taking special care to investigate reality for myself.
7. Today as I would that one should do to me, I have done also to them likewise.
8. Today I have made spiritually guided scientific action the heart of my being.
9. Today I have practiced winning by planning and preparing all that I do and relying first and foremost on my Spirit Guides, my family, my People, and myself.
10. Today after completing my responsibilities, I have assisted those in need.
11. Today I have only sided with the good of my People.
12. Today I have not knowingly aided those who harm us, but helped causes that help us.
13. Today I have done good for good’s sake, always staying away from those who desire to parade in long robes, and seek expensive things in life’s markets and take the highest seats in high places.
14. Today the wrong I have condemned in others, I have not practiced myself.
15. Today I have unselfishly worked to fulfill my life’s purpose.
16. Today I have quietly gone about my life’s work, humbly sought wisdom, studied, honored the laws of nature, meditated, and retired within myself to receive inner revelations before speaking.
17. Today I have eaten whole foods that nurture, fuel and heal my body.
18. Today I have practiced only the highest respect for my elders, and ancestors.
19. Today I have carefully read books, observed reality and reflected upon the lessons they give.
20. Today I have planned, prepared, fought and won victories that I had earlier made certain.
21. Today I have studied my own faults, and examined my own self, instead of judging and criticizing faults in others.
22. Today I have returned to those who harm us what belongs to them.
23. Today I have assisted the oppressed against their oppressors and have not favored the rich over the poor.
24. Today I sought and worked alongside only the pure of heart, mind, and body.
25. Today I have carefully prepared little by little, building from small to large, from simple to complex, from nothing to something.
26. Today I have judged the goodness of a person on her/his/their morality—the heart—which is the greatest measure of a human.
27. Today I have prepared myself precisely then helped to prepare others.
28. Today I have been humble in asking advice on things I do not know about and relentless in carrying out all daily tasks.
29. Today I have told the truth.
30. Today I have completed all agreed upon tasks on time and with precision.
31. Today I have treated my family members with the honor and respect due them.
32. Today I have improved my surroundings, keeping them neat, clean, ordered, and honorable.
33. Today I have taken special care to eat healthy, live honorably, work hard, practice good hygiene, exercise, rest, practice African culture, study, and meditate daily on how to solve our problems.
34. Today I have worked with persistence, commitment, and precision, keeping all my words in lines with my actions.
35. Today I have humbly raised moral ethics, scientific truth, and material deeds as sacred guides to daily living.
36. Today I have been courageous in all that I did.
37. Today I have been disciplined and focused on fulfilling my tasks.
38. Today I have won what was lost and replenished that which was depleted.
39. Today I have done what was just to do.
40. Today I have made right my wrongs.
41. Today I have started every effort with my own resources---relying on my own internal will, tenacity, courage, intelligence, and persistence to make myself the difference between success and failure.
42. Today I have worked even harder as conditions toughened knowing that those who are most committed, whether for a good or a bad cause, will always win in the end.
Adapted from 42 Declarations of Innocence in Maat: Guiding Principles of Moral Living.