To be loved, you have to be willing to love first.

SHARED THOUGHTS............26.02.12.
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To be loved, you have to be willing to love first

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Maybe life is all about being first after all! Not so fast. Being first is about consciousness, not competitiveness, i.e., “as you sow, so shall you reap.”

To be loved, you have to be willing to love first; to be cherished, you have to be willing to give respect first;  to be heard, you have to be willing to listen first; and to experience forgiveness and freedom, you have to be willing to forgive first.

I honestly believe that the only way to get to happiness is to be happy already. Many people live their life according to the formula -  Do + Have = Be.  They cannot just be happy, because first they have to do “x,” and then they have to have “y.” In other words, they have to have a house, they have to do more, they have to do even more, they have to have a partner, they have to have lots of money, etc. But why not just be happy?

In the healing process, people often convince themselves that they have to get well before they can choose happiness again.

In my work I encourage my clients -  to honour their pain and choose peace, to feel fear and choose love,                                                                           to face anger and choose forgiveness,  to experience the heartbreak and choose happiness, and to experience guilt and choose innocence.

Gandhi once said you have to be the change you want. Why? Because the mirror cannot change without you. And the world is only a mirror. Remember, you see only your thoughts. When you shift, shift happens. If you don’t, you simply experience more of the same. It is no good saying, “I’ll be open with you, as soon as you are open with me.” Be first. Be different if you want a different outcome. Be the goal.

What “to be” decisions will you make today? Think of your goals, your challenges, your relationships, and ask yourself, “Is how I am, going to bring me what I really want?”

Be still a moment and reset your intention to be loving, no matter what, to be kind in spite of everything, to shine your light come what may. Your “to be” decisions are between you and God. Let nothing steal them away.

(Thank you, Minica).

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“Do not Worry if others do not understand you, 
*Worry only if you cannot understand yourself”.

From PSB Rajan

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Each one of us is an alcoholic bottle
Intoxicated from within by itself.

“I AM”  the alcohol, the intoxicant,
In all the bottles.
In all of you.

 

By Raheem Kuwait.

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On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. 
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If you want something you never had, Do something you have never done.

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Don’t go the way Life takes you, Take life the way you go.

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And remember you are born to live and Not living because you are born.

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"Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect, It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections."

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 Have a safe and good week ahead. 

  

MOHANDAS. KP.

http://mohandas-sharedthoughts.blogspot.com/