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Today's
Quotation:
Love is something you and I must have.
We must have it because our
spirit feeds upon it.
We must have it because without it we become
weak and
faint. Without
love our self-esteem weakens.
Without it
our courage fails.
Without love we can no longer look confidently at the
world. We turn
inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities,
and
little by little we destroy ourselves.
With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly.
With it, and with it alone,
we are able to sacrifice
for others.
Chief Dan George
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Today's
Meditation:
The
power of love can be seen very clearly in this passage that
tells us how we react when we have no love in our lives, or
when we have too little love or no unconditional love.
Love is all around us, everywhere, but sometimes it seems
that precious little of it is pointed in our direction, that
we don't have enough of it in our lives.
When
we feel loved, we tend to be much stronger. The irony
is that we all are loved, but most of us sometimes feel
unloved, bringing on the negative feelings and reactions
ourselves. Sometimes we don't recognize love because
it's not being shared in the ways that we expect, or we can
even reject love because it's not coming from the people we
want it to come from.
By
sharing our own love, imagine the kind of power we can share
with others-- imagine how we can empower others to strengthen
so many important aspects of their lives. We can help
people to express parts of themselves that they otherwise
might keep hidden, and it costs us nothing to give them that
help. And we're not talking romantic love here-- we're
talking about the kind of love that we feel for others
simply because they are, and because of the compassion that
we feel for them and their state.
We
can love extensively, and that doesn't mean that we have to
walk around saying "I love you" to everyone.
When we do love, we don't diminish ourselves at all-- we're
not losing something by giving it away. Quite to the
contrary, we're strengthening ourselves by strengthening the
entire world by helping to make other individuals stronger
and more loving people themselves.
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