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If you are willing to acknowledge that you are loved absolutely and unconditionally, then you no longer need to waste time and energy “earning” love and approval.
You begin to understand that love is given freely. It is what you are at your core. It is who you really are.
How does this fit with your experience?
Blessings from and gratitude to Ross Girardi!
(While a bit out of our usual format, I think you will understand why this moment it is presented without editing!)
I remember the first time I met Bill – A smile, blue overalls, and a suit coat .. and a question. A question I ponder often and re-visit …
Do you love everyone?
It was January 2010 – in New York City – in the first weekend of a transformative coaching program … and Bill had just asked that question to the room.
Yes, I do love everyone, and some people behave such that I do not like their behavior. And I have learned through life that I can love everyone as human beings in their spiritual experience, and I believe we all have lessons to learn in life.
For me, loving everyone is a reflection of my ability to love and acceptance of myself. AND, that is my on-going lesson and moment of mindfulness.
I reflect as I write.
Self Love and Self Acceptance – the places and spaces I do not love myself, that is where I do not love another. When I see a lack of love, whether expressed as upset, anger; this is the mirror for me to see where love is absent. And these places are when the lessons for growth live. And, for me, they provide moments of mindfulness. When I deeply look into these places of growth, I create the space for deeper self acceptance and growth.
You see, it is my experience that facing these places and spaces I do not love myself, I understand my humanity a little more. Then I can understand such that I learn a lesson, and in the learning of that lesson, I can not only accept myself, I can accept the differences which create “out-of-love” thoughts. And in this acceptance, I return to self-love and acceptance. And then I understand and return to the space of loving everyone.
Do I love everyone … yes, Bill, I do. Thank you!
Much Love, my friend!
Love,
Jim
Blessings from and gratitude to!
Jim Pehkonen – Life Archetect, Adventurer, Lover of Life
I just got off the phone with my youngest client. She is nine and wishes her parents weren’t going through a divorce. I have a hunch that if every person I know could have heard that conversation, there might be a clearer understanding of why I think it is so important for people to experience themselves as loved absolutely and unconditionally and that their value and worth are a given, before they get into relationships.
There is no one to blame and could we please make this a societal/global goal?
