The shadow is a great teacher to self-love. It points to the parts of us we’re trying to chop out and disown. Counterintuitively, the peace is in accepting and integrating all these parts we negatively judge, not in disowning them. Non-dual thinking helps in removing the resistance to the shadow. When we appreciate that all […]
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I create my belief in my philosophy every day. Every moment. I create who I be, how I feel, how I think in the face of my fears, my self-doubt, my harsh inner critic, despondency and cynicism. I used to fight these forces. I no longer do, for that only gives them more power.
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You don’t need to prepare, you’re ready. You have within you all you need—all of life’s universal intelligence. You are life and love, expressing themselves. The only thing that makes you feel you aren’t ready is the false thought that you aren’t ready.
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The love we can’t give others is love we can’t give to ourselves. The neglect we accept from others is less than the neglect we accept from ourselves.
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What’s the worst that could happen if they judged you? If you did that thing that you would LOVE to do, and they didn’t like it, they judged you for it — so what? We are all afraid of judgement but the MAGIC is in staying TRUE to what makes us THRIVE, what makes us
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All experience is an opportunity for us to learn to love ourselves better. This includes being fully present with our feelings, whatever they are. Grief, loss, heartbreak, self-judgement, doubt — allowing ourselves to fully feel, holding ourselves just where we are in life, without resistance.
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We often strive for perfection, imposing unattainable expectations upon ourselves. Abandoning ourselves and our true nature along the way. It’s not perfection that makes us beautiful — it’s our humanity. Our fragility. Our brokenness. Our authenticity. This doesn’t mean not trying to grow, learn or improve. It means stepping out of self-judgement, because it’s that
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One of my biggest weaknesses has been talking about my weaknesses. I’ve been afraid to be vulnerable since childhood. I demanded from myself to be strong.
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We make about 33,000 decisions per day. Over 2,000 in every hour of sixteen waking hours. We choose what to do, how to do it, what we say, if we say it, when we exercise, what we drink, eat, leave, take. But the vast majority of our actions result from the decisions we don’t make. 95% of cognition happens “in the dark”—in our subconscious not our conscious mind.
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Our brokenness is our wholeness. It’s the idiosyncratic expression of the fractal of life we are. We’re not whole when we’re whole. We’re whole when we love all of our brokenness. Love it all. Be with it all. With all of who you are. Be most present, gentle and loving to what you are ashamed
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