Whatshot
Through my eyes
Through my eyes
Date: 2016-07-15
I have heard this quote many times before and love how it makes me feel and I want to share it with you and ask you to really think about it deeply.
So many people in my life and people that cross my path are unhappy with themselves, with their lives, with everyone around them; they spend their days looking for faults with anything and everything.
So often I meet people who for one or other reason stopped loving themselves. Stopped believing that there is something great about them. They have literally seen their life sparkle fade and extinguish.
Often I try to remind myself that beauty is the light behind our eyes, not our skin, hair, or weight - and physical beauty is impermanent for all, since we all age. What endures is the impact we make while we're here, in the moment.
Pulling myself out of self-loathing and embracing my true self has been a big focus for me throughout my life and I understand everyone who is on this path.
I recently read that the average person spends a minimum of 500 hours per year on negative self-talk, many people spend as much as 2,000 hours. Imagine what kind of impact that has on one's self esteem.
It's true that in this, authenticity can be quite a challenge. We often want to change from one way we thought we should be to another way we think we should become.
The motivation behind the change is pleasing others. If we are not being authentic to ourselves, being who we are, we are not pleasing ourselves. The trick is to help ourselves first and then we will be better able to help others. If some people don't like our true selves, it does not matter because there will be others who will.
Someone once told me that, if the universe is a hologram, then the whole universe is inside each of us. Infinite love, infinite abundance, infinite peace, infinite creative potential, we just have to believe and pursue the truth.
For what is a seeker of wisdom if not a person driven by a desire to undo his foolishness? What is a student if not a person who feels bereft of knowledge?
Today more then ever before we need to feed our essential sense of inadequacy with encouragement, inspiration, even lessons from others. We need to look outside ourselves for role models of the kind of human we want to be, even if the irony is that we can only perceive that which we already are.
So our quest is less about improving than simply revealing. To own what is true about ourselves, despite our worst judgment of what we know, and to love ourselves unconditionally, is grace beyond measure.
I wish all my readers love, respect for self and others and peace of mindhave a fabulous week everyone.