Self Love

              "We shall not cease from exploration but at the end of all of our exploring will be to return to                 the placed from which we originated and to know it for the first time.” T. S. Eliot

You were a twinkle in God’s eye before you were ever a gleam in Dad’s. Eventually we return to the place of our beginning. Earth to earth; dust to dust, created to Creator. We go back to the source from which we came, back to the love of God.

So why wait? Just as the be-happy-attitudes are for today on planet earth as well as in the sweet-by-and-by, so, too, is a healthy earthly self-love.

Self-love is primal to physical and mental health and to spiritual well-being. Wireless technology and scientific discoveries confirm what mystics have known all along – we are all connected. From the vastness of the universe to the quantum iota of the atom, we are all connected.

Because God is Love, then you – his offspring – are love. And lovely. And loveable. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding your conception, you were born from God’s womb of Love. Regardless of the condition of the parents – marital relationship, unloving sex, rape – you originated in God’s source of love.

Love is one of our greatest needs. Lovingly acts buds, blossom and bloom. Unloving acts that kinda resemble love may become distorted and perverted.

Failure to love and accept yourself is also failure to accept God’s special creation of you; the one with a totally unique fingerprint design.

Why is self-love so difficult? Is it because we know ourselves well enough to know that we have unloving thoughts and do unloving deeds? Is it because we reject the parts of us that are in pain? Or that causes pain?

“Consider the lilies of the field.”

Think about flowers. All have beauty yet some are poisonous and some have thorns. Some are planted and admired in the boundary of a garden, yet are considered weeds when they jump bounds.

Self love is accepting all sides of our personality. Each facet of who we are simultaneously play a part in our life lessons.

“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.” Rumi

Live in the question, the wonder and the awe. Live in the not-knowing-yet-longing-to-know. Learning to love yourself is a baby-step to trusting the infinite wisdom that created you.

We can only draw to us what we are. As we receive God's Love that is our birthright, our genes expression alchemically changes and we become a new creation with a fidelity to the original.

You become who you really are; you become your best self.

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