Forgiveness Is the Path to Freedom. Love Is Freedom
Self-love is the foundation of all love, loving the perfections and imperfections, loving your being with all your heart! Loving your flaws, large and small, without judgment, without criticism. Loving all of life! Not only that which allows you to see the perfection in yourself and others, but what allows you to see the imperfection as well and love it just the same.
Never let anyone else define who you are. We are all beautiful in our perfection and our imperfection. We are all worthy! No one needs to prove themselves worthy of love. When others try to define us by their thoughts and feelings, it is merely a projection of how they feel about themselves. The world attempts to define us in the same way through fear, negativity, and lack. Don’t let the world define who you are by what you do or the standards of success and perfection it projects onto you. Who you are inside is a conscious being whose love and light radiate through all the layers of filters that society, family, culture, religion, education, media, and any other part of our conditioned reality have projected onto you. But the truth is that you deserve love UNCONDITIONALLY…from yourself first and foremost and from the world around you!
There is a way to show yourself every day that you love yourself by holding yourself in tenderness and kindness. By loving yourself this way, you are letting yourself know that this is how you deserve to be loved. You are letting the world know that this is how you deserve to be loved. And all things not aligned with this loving way are not allowed into your world. By treating yourself in a kind and loving way, what you radiate out into the world will always be kind and loving, even when a need for boundaries arises. Boundaries are necessary, but they can be set with loving compassion for the act of fear that has created their need. We are capable of loving even our deepest enemies. And from a place of love, we can see that it is always an aspect of our shadow that attracts their reflection to us for healing. By healing our deepest wounds and letting go through the forgiveness of ourselves and others, we attract a higher aspect of our consciousness that reflects a more expanded version of ourselves. A higher vibration of Light!
We are One with the Universe. The Universe is a reflection of our consciousness for a reason; it holds us and the world around us in balance. When we are out of balance, it reflects itself in the world around us. It reflects itself in our physical bodies. In Latin, ‘Temet Nosce’ means ‘Know Thyself.’ Through self-inquiry and mastery, we can always bring ourselves, our physical bodies, and our world back into balance. Maintaining balance by lovingly accepting all aspects of ourselves, the Light will find its way through all the filters within our consciousness to illuminate even the darkest shadows.
By perceiving beauty even in the ruffled feather, we can see clearly that the Light washes over us to cleanse even our deepest wounds and bring us back into wholeness and unity with ourselves and each other. Collective healing is as much a part of healing as individual healing. When we heal the collective, we heal ourselves. And when we heal ourselves, we help to heal the collective. When we have the opportunity to heal the collective through kindness and compassion, we move toward healing the world and in the direction of unity. When people feel safe to be part of a collective rather than separate themselves from it out of fear, they naturally gravitate towards unity with the world around them. Love unites, and fear divides. By forgiving another, we forgive that part of ourselves that needs healing to move forward without calling in the exact reflection in someone else. By forgiving another, we forgive a part of ourselves. When we love another, we love a part of ourselves!