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"You can know as much of yourself as you are willing to love."
"You can love as much of another person as you love of yourself. "
What do you think of these quotes, do they ring true for you?
"You can love as much of another person as you love of yourself. "
What do you think of these quotes, do they ring true for you?
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Re: Self-love and attracting our reciprical...
Tue, April 28, 2009 - 11:53 AMKnowing the source of the quote might be helpful here. I can't really say they ring true for me. -
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Re: Self-love and attracting our reciprical...
Tue, April 28, 2009 - 11:56 AMThe first is from my meditation teacher, I don't know where he got it from.
The second one I've just heard around.
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Fri, May 1, 2009 - 6:54 PM%%""You can love as much of another person as you love of yourself. " %%
Coming from the premise that the world is a reflection/attraction of the pulses we send out then I can really only allow from without that which I have allowed from within.
%%"You can know as much of yourself as you are willing to love"%%
Well, if love is equated to shedding light on and respecting/nurturing even the most hidden parts of ourselves then I'd have to say that I agree with this quote. How can we know what is hidden in our shadows? If we yell at it to come out it will probably go deeper in the shadows but if we coax, nurture and embrace it we begin to bring light into the shadow and another little piece of ourselves is revealed/known.
I guess there are as many interpretations of these quotes as there are people. But these interpretations resonate with me...today anyway ;0)
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Mon, May 4, 2009 - 10:42 AMThanks Michelle. I just got back from a 4 day meditation retreat that was at once sheer terror and very relaxing. I struggle daily to love myself to my fullest capacity. It was wonderful to be around 30 other people trying to do the same. So much love poured out of these people and we couldn't talk until the last day. It was a silent retreat.
I have some deep fear and anger and jealousy and pain to contend with in my psyche before I even can get to the relaxation and real love. It's difficult but all a part of my path. -
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Tue, May 19, 2009 - 10:24 PMThey absolutely ring true to me!
You cant give something away that you don't have yourself! We as a society have a very distorted view of love. We tend to think that love is being fullfilled by another person, but if that is true then who or what is going to fill the gap when two people who are expecting the other to fill in their lack come together. Expecting somone else to make you whole is an impossibly unfair thing to ask of another human being. According to what I personally believe, it is the job of each individual to find their OWN joy and happiness in this life, and then share their excess.
As to being able to know everything that you can love about yourself, that's a new thing for me. I am finding it to be absolutely and utterly true. Loving even the darker aspects of my personality seems to bring them out into the light and disarm them completely. Love transforms everything it touches!
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Re: Self-love and attracting our reciprical...
Thu, May 21, 2009 - 1:52 AMi like to call loving the 'bad' parts of ourselves as 'loving the shadows'...
imagining that they are gifts...
of (usually looooads) of energy...
not trying to heal them... fix them... not even transform them...
loving them...
the transformation happens naturally, then... or it doesn't... acceptance (not tolerance!) is what matters...
imagine that they are happiness/something very desireable : if you want to hold on to them, your shadows, they might just (like happiness often does) pass thorugh your fingers like sand....
talking to them lovingly is an interesting conversation...
like it is to that 'no-no' guy everyone is warning you against... :o)))
by having a deep loving/juicy/healthy/dynamic realtionship with our shadows - these 'no-no' guys/women might not be just as interesting as they were before...
and we might develop some extra healthy and authentic charisma to attract those that seemed beyond our reach before...
love
kaalii -
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Re: Self-love and attracting our reciprical...
Thu, May 21, 2009 - 2:20 PMI like your advice Kaalii~
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Re: Self-love and attracting our reciprical...
Fri, May 22, 2009 - 10:43 AMI love that way of looking at it both Leo and Kaalii!
We are always talking about either healing or eradicating our shadow selves, it is like anger, sometimes the root of anger, or underneath all of it is this little scared person that just wants to be seen and loved and accepted. And if we can do that for ourselves the way we seem to be able to do it for others, we will have more love available for others and will attract that as well.
Ultimately if we reject parts of ourselves we will create that rejection in our outer lives too.
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Re: Self-love and attracting our reciprical...
Fri, May 29, 2009 - 1:52 AM**"Ultimately if we reject parts of ourselves we will create that rejection in our outer lives too. "**
I agree so much with what you said, Queenie.
It seems that we reject parts of ourselves and teach the cells of our body to do the same - chronic fatigue really ruled my life until I went deeper and looked at internal issues. When I shed light into my shadows I found an orphanage of children and adults wandering around. They all seemed angry, hurt and/or lost. I took each one in and chatted with them and loved 'em up - even that angry little one who wanted to smash the world rather then let his guard down enough to open to a hug.
Strangely, each of the mental figures I conjured up in my mind just disappeared when I opened to them, listened and loved them. As they reintegrated into me I began to heal physically and emotionally - step by step up the staircase to inner balance - drawing to me healthier and more joyful experiences and people.
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