ALL RELATIONSHIPS BEGIN FROM LOVING THE SELF
(An excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace")
To have harmonious relationships outside the self, one must first heal the relationship within the self. Relationship with oneself begins by loving and accepting oneself completely. We are responsible for our happiness absolutely. No one can make us happy or sad as it is our freewill to make ourselves happy or sad. We look at the world from our perception and we create our reality from the meaning we choose to give to life.
When we learn to love and accept ourselves completely, humility is born. Humility is emptying oneself of all of the stories of the past. Removing all of the labels of who or what we think we are. It is a most challenging journey and it is the journey to transformation. Without loving and accepting the self, one cannot understand humility. If we try to practice humility before loving and understanding the self, we will tend to live from the stories of woundedness, self pity, and lack of self esteem. Many times we give the meaning of humble to be weak.
Humility is not about weakness or lack of self esteem. Humility is power through emptying the self of past stories in order to allow the LOVE of the Creator to flow through. You cannot truly receive when you are full of the past stories of the I as the story of the I completely fills you and there is no space for the Creator anywhere.
Humility is the place of complete emptiness – emptiness to a sense of I. As long as there is an I, there is the control of the ego mind. The I likes to give but not to receive, it likes to keep memories, it likes to keep accounts, it summarizes and compares, and it thinks that it is all knowing. Only when we learn to drop the I, do we become the empty cup where the Divine Presence can fill us. We cannot receive if we are full of the I. We continue to give, to interact from the place of I, and we never know to receive. Receiving love, grace, and kindness from people around us and from the divine becomes very difficult when we do not empty the I in ourselves. The foundation for a true relationship is in giving and receiving as relationships must be balanced with giving and receiving. If there is no one to receive what you give, how will you be able to give it, how will you come to know what generosity is, and what love is. A true relationship is born from dropping the I, to let go of control, and to let go of the past and all of its stories of hurt and distress.
Only when we drop the stories of the past, we will become empty to receive, enjoy, and savor love. A relationship with the Creator or with anyone outside the self is fulfilled only when we have relaxed into the place of emptying, allowing, and accepting.
Relationships are based on true love, and true love is never an emotion. True love is a conscious connection with the Divine Presence. When we empty ourselves of all of the I stories and labels stored in our memories, we allow the love of God to pour into our beings. And when we are filled with the love of God, we return to True Love.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
~ An Excerpt from "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
Copyright © 2012 P Rajkumar , S L Christian
All rights reserved.
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(An excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace")
To have harmonious relationships outside the self, one must first heal the relationship within the self. Relationship with oneself begins by loving and accepting oneself completely. We are responsible for our happiness absolutely. No one can make us happy or sad as it is our freewill to make ourselves happy or sad. We look at the world from our perception and we create our reality from the meaning we choose to give to life.
When we learn to love and accept ourselves completely, humility is born. Humility is emptying oneself of all of the stories of the past. Removing all of the labels of who or what we think we are. It is a most challenging journey and it is the journey to transformation. Without loving and accepting the self, one cannot understand humility. If we try to practice humility before loving and understanding the self, we will tend to live from the stories of woundedness, self pity, and lack of self esteem. Many times we give the meaning of humble to be weak.
Humility is not about weakness or lack of self esteem. Humility is power through emptying the self of past stories in order to allow the LOVE of the Creator to flow through. You cannot truly receive when you are full of the past stories of the I as the story of the I completely fills you and there is no space for the Creator anywhere.
Humility is the place of complete emptiness – emptiness to a sense of I. As long as there is an I, there is the control of the ego mind. The I likes to give but not to receive, it likes to keep memories, it likes to keep accounts, it summarizes and compares, and it thinks that it is all knowing. Only when we learn to drop the I, do we become the empty cup where the Divine Presence can fill us. We cannot receive if we are full of the I. We continue to give, to interact from the place of I, and we never know to receive. Receiving love, grace, and kindness from people around us and from the divine becomes very difficult when we do not empty the I in ourselves. The foundation for a true relationship is in giving and receiving as relationships must be balanced with giving and receiving. If there is no one to receive what you give, how will you be able to give it, how will you come to know what generosity is, and what love is. A true relationship is born from dropping the I, to let go of control, and to let go of the past and all of its stories of hurt and distress.
Only when we drop the stories of the past, we will become empty to receive, enjoy, and savor love. A relationship with the Creator or with anyone outside the self is fulfilled only when we have relaxed into the place of emptying, allowing, and accepting.
Relationships are based on true love, and true love is never an emotion. True love is a conscious connection with the Divine Presence. When we empty ourselves of all of the I stories and labels stored in our memories, we allow the love of God to pour into our beings. And when we are filled with the love of God, we return to True Love.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
~ An Excerpt from "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
Copyright © 2012 P Rajkumar , S L Christian
All rights reserved.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/
http://amzn.to/X0XIzM
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