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Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve Forgive yourself for abandoning your own needs, desires amd core values. Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve Forgive yourself for making compromises that turned into red flags. Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve Forgive yourself for settling into convenience and practicality.  Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve Forgive yourself for living a fantasy of near enoughs, potentials and maybes. Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve Forgive yourself for becoming someone you're not. Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserve But don't do it again. ~ self love

“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dread pain and to fear of the unknown. Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the past and future gives us a corresponding dim sense of the present. In other words, we seem to reach a point where the advantages of being conscious are outweighed by its disadvantages, where extreme sensitivity makes us unadaptable.”     Alan Wilson Watts,  " The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety" "Inevitably we will be asked to tend to the heart as it breaks in response to a life and a world that is simultaneously devastating as it is precious. Tending to the broken does not necessarily require that we mend the he...

You seem to have some doubts about yourself,  whereas I don’t have doubts about you.  I have no doubts about what you are. Maybe even ‘wonderful’ is too small a word for what you are. There’s no word… it is indescribable. There’s a great peace here, but it’s not just peace.  It’s more than peace. It’s more than free. I can say what I’m not, but what I am I cannot say, I can only be.

via Raw Edge Photography ~ Seal Rocks Light House NSW.  “Many people feel either it is their destiny to realize the Self or not. But the Self has no destiny. Boom! Who is saying, ‘If it is in my destiny to discover the Self, it will happen?’ This one is not real. If you would really listen to what I am saying and what I am pointing to, you would save yourselves lifetimes of effort and suffering. However, if you have a secret commitment to preserving yourself as a person, Self-inquiry will not help you. Surrender to your own Nature, Truth, Can you imagine meeting with God and knowing there is nothing you could say that would make him upset with you? And when you know you cannot do anything to chan ge his love for you, then many suppressed feelings leave you. Nothing to be offended, nothing to judge, nothing to forgive nor to heal. Nothing has ever been remembered of anything wrong you think you ever did. I tell you that you don't have to imagine this, beca...

  “These mountains that you’re carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” Najwa Zebian Is Happiness overrated? “Good vibes only” is just plain laziness. Get out from underneath the burden of needing to be happy and positive all the time. That’s too much weight to be carrying around. Take it easy on yourself. Stop being so damn serious. Especially about happiness, positivity, and love. You’re not perfect and you never will be. Neither will anybody else. ... Your “love & light” could use a little “grit & darkness.” Forcing yourself to be positive and happy all the time is just an ego trap set up by the scared-shitless part of you that doesn’t want to face the shitty, shadowy, scary side of life. It’s a strategic safezone propped up by cowardice and weakness. Stop sugarcoating bullshit. Stop demonizing sadness. You cannot be happy all the time. Happiness, like sadness, is a passing storm across the sky of the Sel...

"The next time you find yourself looping in self-attack, disconnected with your body, and spinning in shame, blame, and complaint... slow down. Feel your feet on the earth. Breathe deeply from the lower belly. Return to your senses in the here and now. Come out of the seductive, sticky, compelling story line for just a moment and send your awareness into the centre of the vulnerable, tender, raw life that is surging to be held. Go slowly, pushing yourself a bit, testing your window of tolerance but taking care not to fall into overwhelm. Cut through the momentum of self-abandonment and descend into the core. Make the journey out of self-aggression and into the slower circuitry of empathy, curiosity, kindness, and space. Stay close. Be a friend to yourself. Provide sanctuary and safe passage for the visitor to be illuminated, held, and transformed, for in a moment of activation you need yourself more than ever. While the temptation is to turn from the shaky center, it is ...

A Sufi's perspective on Love and relating By J Disabatino                                 Sufism and the four layers of the heart A Sufi is someone who has made a total commitment to return to the One by traveling the path of the heart, the path of love. Sufis are experts on the inner landscape of the heart. Sufis say it is only in the awakened heart that we can begin to taste and experience our true divine nature. The great Sufi mystics of the past gave us a model or map of the heart’s road that leads back to the Source. Early writers such as al-Hakim al –Timiridh describes four primary layers of the heart, and subsequent writers elaborated on the 28 “stations” or subdivisions of the four primary layers of the heart. For the sake of simplicity, I have found the “four-layer...

"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary,  the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle... for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness... those goodly endeavours that cannot be allowed  to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish..." "Having a lover / friend who regards you as a living growing criatura, being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or a ficus in the house, or a rose garden out in the side yard... having a lover and friends who look at you as a true living breathing entity, one that is human but made of very fine and moist and magical things as well... a lover and friends who support the criatura in you... these are the people you are looking for. They will be the friends of your soul...