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Be present with yourself … it is enough for the moment

Where are you on the path to PEACE?

5 steps to PEACE … see where YOU are on the path!

1. P-retending to Be What You Are Not
2. E-goic Striving
3. A-dmitting Dissonance and Confusion
4. C-oming Clean
5. E-xperiencing Ecstasy and Oneness

Step 1 — Pretending to Be What You Are Not
•Simply conform to what’s expected
•Are pre-occupied with meeting your needs for survival
•Have resorted to merely escaping the pain of rejection

Step 2 — Egoic Striving
•Strive for more to prove your worth
•Worry about how others judge you
•Find excuses to take care of others, rather than yourself

Step 3 — Admitting Dissonance and Confusion
•Are confused about who you are
•Realize you feel disconnected
•See the humor in sitting down with a carton of ice cream

Step 4 — Coming Clean
•Choose to be your true self, regardless of
consequences
•Let go of control and risk “failure”
•Stop trying to be right and make others wrong

Step 5 — Experiencing Ecstasy and Oneness
•Feel radiant instead of flawed; look radiant instead of
self-conscious
•Feel connected instead of isolated or used
•Are virtually free of fear, stress, and negative emotion… More

Only love is real …

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What marks us as human marvels?

Dear Friends,

It is NOT our capacity for love that marks us as human marvels. It is our capacity to choose between love and fear.

We are gifted with choice, both the privilege and the responsibility.

When we choose love, we choose to be true to ourself. And we know self-verification.

When we choose fear, we know the stress of dissonance, or being untrue to ourself.

I’m so thankful that we get to choose again … and again, and again. There is nothing I’m more thankful for. Choosing love is the most glorious feeling we can know. And it’s such a simple way to live.

Simple doesn’t mean easy, though. While choosing love sounds easy enough, there is no angel on one shoulder and devil on the other making a distinction between love and fear for us. Often we mask fear with justification, excuses, and blame. And we can’t actually choose love, without letting go of fear and all the self-defeating emotion it triggers.

We’re programmed to be sensitive to what threatens us. BUT we can grow beyond REACTING in fear, and RESPOND, instead, in love. Responding in love means responding in peace and quiet self-assurance, without any attachment to the consequences.… More

See and celebrate the real you …

You’re gritting your teeth and talking under your breath again, wondering if he deliberately provokes you … and if he waits until people are watching to do it.

It’s no coincidence that he’s more irritating when you’re the center of attention. That is, after all, when you’re more consumed with presentation — and what everybody else is thinking! Therein lies the problem.

When it seems as though he’s annoying you, he’s actually just triggering your feelings of insecurity. Without those, there would be no reason to grit your teeth. The mother of all your negative, self-defeating emotion is the belief that you’re not good enough. If you knew beyond all doubt that there was nothing wrong with you, you could drop the pretense and share the real you, without any anxiousness, defensiveness, blame, or qualifiers! And he, too, could be himself, without your making excuses for his behavior, or wondering who noticed!

If that sounds implausible, it’s because you’re playing prisoner to perception.

But what’s real is more sacred and more beautiful than what you’ve conjured up to fit in or win approval. If you don’t believe me, imagine the sleeping face of your first child, or your sweetheart, or the beloved friend who died last year.… More

This is true in all of our relationships …

Without authenticity, what you seem to have can’t last.

With authenticity, whatever you have can evolve.… More