When we stop short of loving ourself the way we want to be loved, we dictate that others stop short of loving us that way! … More
Love yourself like you know you’re lovable!
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It is enough …
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You don’t have to wonder …
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No losing …
We can be aware of our ego, without being distracted by it. We don’t have to offer the attention it craves. We don’t have to give it a voice or appendages.
The ego sees lack and gets scared and greedy. Love knows there’s enough for everybody. Love knows everybody can win.
And when we simply yield to love, instead of ego, we allow love to serve everybody’s highest good. Love can do that in any situation.
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Bringing the Unknown Into the Known
The goal of learning is to bring the unknown into the known. The mere act of embracing the unknown as the truth requires a degree of faith. When we limit ourselves to believing for the known — or what we have already proven to be true — we also limit our results to those we have experienced. While we can move beyond our own experience by learning from somebody else’s experience, we are still operating in the known — albeit it “unknown” or new to us.
So, is experience really the best teacher? It depends on what you want to learn. Is the past really the best predictor of the future? It is if you want to be able to predict the future. Expanding into the unknown means not being able to predict the future; but it also means ensuring that the future does not equal your past.
I embraced a belief as a little girl that “faith without works is dead.” And it has seemed to me a valid belief. I have spent my life wanting to do all that I knew to do, believing that then I could trust God to do his part. For the last several years I have tried to balance doing my part with letting go.… More
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