"We can love others with their failures when we stop despising ourselves because of our failures"    -Desmond Tutu 
Sometimes loving myself can be tricky.  It's hard when I've gone against what I know is right for me.  It's also hard when I don't let myself off the hook.  When those things happen I know it's time for some new perspective and to let go of making myself wrong.  So I turn it around and look at the lesson it holds for me.  Then next time I know that I'll make a better choice and there is no reason to continue feeling badly.
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The Field. 12/16/2009
 
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."
-Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

Ideally, that field is where we go to find our happiness.  But the world is messy with contradictory rules, beliefs and expectations.  Needless to say,  it can be challenging to find that field.  The best way I know of to "meet someone there" is by getting there myself.
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Building Trust. 12/09/2009
 
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence."
               -George Washington
There are times when it's easy to trust someone quickly.  That works until there is a misunderstanding and it can make either or both parties lose trust just as quickly because there wasn't enough time set aside for trust to build.  Letting trust do it's job is something that we can let happen by not managing it like an overbearing boss.  Lasting trust builds it's temple slowly and securely as long as we don't come in and tell it how to build what it's making or to speed it up.
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Success 12/02/2009
 
"If we plant a seed in the ground we know that the sun will shine and the rain will water, and we leave it to the Law to bring results...Well, the desire you image is the seed, your occasional closing of the eyes in imagery is the
sun, and your constant, though not anxious, expectation is the rain and cultivation necessary to bring absolutely sure results..."

- Frances Larimer Warner, Our Invisible Supply: Part One
It basically means if you have a vision, idea or project and you stick with it, you can't fail.  Doesn't that take a load off?
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