When a friend is generous and giving, it makes you want to give to them too.
When we are generous and giving, there is joy in genuine giving itself. And the universe gets the message that we are abundant and things tend to flow toward us again.
It’s such a good feeling to know there is enough to share!
Silence is the highest form of wisdom.
To blame others for our process imprisons us, it takes away our power to truly change it.
To blame ourselves only digs the hole of self hatred.
To look within with compassion, to deeply take responsibility, this frees us.
Beauty is so important to our wellbeing.
What makes your life beautiful? How can you maximise beauty in your life? How can you open to receive more beautiful moments?
Paradoxically beauty can still be found even within sadness and challenge, as it is not separate from the essence of who we are, a loving heart. Through our hardest times we understand more and more just how important beauty is.
It is the food needed for our soul.
Reality is not some idea. It is this moment as it is, unfolding and alive.
“We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.”
Jack Kornfield.
Trauma makes us leave our body. Healing brings us back into body.
Learn to discern between your ego self and your true self. Learn not to be caught in the ego’s guise; pretending to be you and trying to control your behaviours.
Ego will always smell of fear on some level. It is inherently insecure. It seeks to prove itself, it often has rigid opinions and needs to protect it’s ideas of identity and is easily offended. It is unable to fully listen. It can play victim or be arrogant, entitled or indignant and it operates from expectations and with agendas (even if only subtly). It lives through protective mechanisms, judgement and comparison and presents in thoughts of ourselves as either superior or inferior, never equal. It focuses on separation and difference.
Our true heart however has no ideas about ourself. It is both empty and full simultaneously. It is enough.
It is more than our emotions, it is like a kind of quiet inner knowing, a sense of presence, a loving awareness. It is a safe resting place for our emotions to be seen and processed. It bases its conduct through our higher conscience and what is true, it values connection and kindness.
Don’t dismiss your true self, your true heart. It will always call us toward goodness, compassion, inner growth and integrity.
What matters most in life is not what we have, but the kindness and love within which we experience it.
Spend time in nature as often as possible.
Learning to see clear and heal from narcissism and/or from aspects of the ego that operate through narcissistic traits is no small feat.
It takes experiencing reparative, genuinely kind and conscious relationships and learning a lot of self love.
RATNA DYER 