Richard Back once said, “The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy,” but if we cannot love ourselves, then how can we love?
You asked me a direct question and I avoided answering it; not because I didn’t know the answer, but because I didn’t want to see the pain deepen in your eyes. Last night was a “defining moment”- Know that I see your pain; know that I hear your pain.
You live in between death and living; to die means feeling no pain, and you are not there because of the ‘feelings’ you crave, but to live means living with pain! Helen Keller was trapped, but she knew all about feelings when she said, ‘Once I knew of only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.’
Perhaps, it’s time to summon courage: to learn to love yourself, and to live life to the fullest. Acknowledge the past that has trapped you, and let it go. Push yourself to set goals: stepping outside of the safety zone that you have created around you, because it is smoldering your life.
You asked me a direct question and I avoided answering it; not because I didn’t know the answer, but because I didn’t want to see the pain deepen in your eyes. Last night was a “defining moment”- Know that I see your pain; know that I hear your pain.
You live in between death and living; to die means feeling no pain, and you are not there because of the ‘feelings’ you crave, but to live means living with pain! Helen Keller was trapped, but she knew all about feelings when she said, ‘Once I knew of only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.’
Perhaps, it’s time to summon courage: to learn to love yourself, and to live life to the fullest. Acknowledge the past that has trapped you, and let it go. Push yourself to set goals: stepping outside of the safety zone that you have created around you, because it is smoldering your life.
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