LOVE YOURSELF & FEEL YOUR POWER

I love humanity, I just don't care much for the

inherited opinions, judgements or primitive ideas people

 cling to instead of rationally developing authentic critical thinking.

I believe we are capable of such greatness, such love and generosity

and yet, we are so monumentally lazy.

Intransigence, which is paralyzing fear, 

seems to be our primary shortcoming.

It's apparent in our acceptance of a military budget, 

which if cut by 75%, would still be greater 

than all other countries combined.

The thing we're so afraid of isn't outside of us.

In the first ten years of life, we experience our environment

without questioning the world around us.  

We accept it, developing beliefs about ourselves based on what

we're told by those caring for us. 

We form beliefs about the way the world is and 

how we need to be, based 

on actions and consequences reflected back to us

 by those same caretakers.   

Meanwhile we are simultaneously forgetting 

what we really are and why we came forth.

We forget our own inherent power and accept the idea

of real power being in an imaginary being 

or in the accumulation of material things, spending a large portion

of our lives waiting or looking for something to save us.

Whichever it is, the power base is certainly not within us.

We settle into a rut of belief or trench of thought which is 

passed to us by those who, well-meaning or not, create the 

grooves in our minds of what is possible, 

what is right or righteous, and ultimately, what is acceptable.

Initially, we those accept those beliefs because we see adults, 

primarily parents, as God and Goddess, infallible and all-knowing.

Of course, when we're older, we realize this isn't true or even fair, 

but by then, we are already running those messages through our minds daily, sometimes hating ourselves 

for believing them, keeping us trapped in them.

There is nothing to be saved from except the thought that we need saving.

We came here Divinely equipped to do everything we wanted to do

when we decided to come forth.

LOVE YOURSELF & FEEL YOUR POWER

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I'M GRATEFUL FOR WHERE I AM AND I'M EAGER FOR WHAT'S COMING

Resentment.

It's such an odd choice we make when we actually desire the exact opposite of what resentment produces.

It causes one to see through a veil of misperception, 

in which one becomes heavily invested.

Even though releasing the instance or interpretation of the instance, which is the basis of the resentment, 

 would free up one's time, cause a positive vibrational shift within him and allow him the freedom of a fresh perspective, he would still be compelled to tell the negative story, actively looking for reasons to support his wounds.

This is where Self-Knowledge is important and Self Control, essential.  If he can control his mind, keeping it focused on love, light, joy and generosity, his ability to see and perceive would be unhindered in the present and untainted from the past.

However we humans, would rather give up everything, including our lives and well-being, with an irrational determination to reject facts, deny patterns of behavior, or recognize simple truths.

We choose misery over relief, bondage over freedom, intolerance over love, ignorance over understanding, violence over peace.  

What rational being would make such choices?  The answer is simple. One who doesn't love himself, nor possess any Self-Respect. To choose against one's own well being is an indication of a profound sense of not being worth the effort....in essence, the lowest form of self esteem.

We would hold someone else responsible for the unhappiness of our choices, blaming them silently for something we want to be big enough in our character to overlook, yet actually aren't.  We blame them for our self neglect in cultivating unconditional love while convincing ourselves that our feelings of undesirability and anger

are because of the actions of the other.

They aren't. These feelings are generated by us, toward us, relating to our own inadequacies and Self-Perception. We must release the judgement of ourselves so we can release our grip on others. We must release others from a standard which we cannot even meet. We must set aside the idea of our inherent need to be punished 

and stop punishing ourselves.

Say to yourself until it becomes something you find yourself naturally thinking; I AM GRATEFUL FOR WHERE I AM 

AND I'M EAGER FOR WHAT'S COMING! You will naturally begin to Love Yourself and you'll begin to notice opportunities you were blind to before.

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