The Inner Journey
Getting Off the Roller Coaster

YOUR WORTH IS AS EQUAL TO THE WORTH THAT YOU SEE IN OTHERS:

To Love yourself is a good thing. Old fashioned Ego thinking wants to guide our thoughts to the likes of...

"Don't be so conceited".

... but self Love is not associated with pride, it is associated with acceptance. It is linked to understanding as we continue to try our best. We are kind to ourselves, just as we are kind to others.

So often, we are sympathetic to the plight of others, but when it comes to ourselves we can be very intolerant of our own mistakes. It is the Ego which drags us down, telling us as a response to a foolish choice,...

"Never never do that thing again"

...yet after some time has passed, it would continue to chatter and say...

"Well; it really wasn't so bad.

it's really O.K., you're not hurting anyone".

But the truth in this thinking is that you are really hurting yourself.

The Ego can deliver strategies that might bring us to think that our place in life, our feelings, and the need for Love are unjustified. It would say...

"Stop thinking of yourself... Give your kindness to others

You're O.K... you've got enough..."

Subtly, the ego is saying "you don't count", but you do count! and you are equal in worth to anyone else who lives and shares time on this earth. You cannot be selfish when you act with Love, for when you have learned to Love yourself, you are acting in accordance with nature.

Since the Ego does not operate out of Love, we can say that it does not know of Love. It only knows that it is a force that it must be responded to. Ego operates on physical realities, but the Inner Truth operates on Spiritual realities. Through an unknowing of Love, it cannot see the love in other people. As such, it will then relate other peoples behaviour to its own past experiences which are linked to fear. But!... Always keep in mind... Your Ego is simply trying to protect you.

As you would Love all people, you cannot exclude yourself or the other parts of yourself from that Love; even the parts which have brought about pain. Your choices, your thinking, your actions, and your desires have all come about through association and evaluation linked to all your past experiences. You are not bad or lacking because of past mistakes. There are no bad people, but there are people whose actions stem from lack of integration and the experience of kind Love. Inwardly they are sad and confused and their actions are associated with fear and survival brought about by a limited knowledge of the True concept of Love.

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