Happy Friday peeps!
Happy Friday peeps! I’m sure you know by now that the topic of our Friday meditations is always love, and today is no different.
Our sense of what love even is, is so deeply intertwined with how we have been taught to see ourselves and where we seek validation and acceptance for and of ourselves, that the terms LOVE and SELF-LOVE are completely inseparable.
Much of our childhood experiences might have led us to chase external validation, to the point of losing touch with the person staring back from the mirror. Have you ever felt like a stranger to yourself?
It’s not uncommon to feel this way at all. But wherever it is that you find yourself in your own journey today, the foundational work for each and every one of us is to become friendlier to that human we see looking back at us.
We didn’t have any one specific teacher for our messages this week, so for today I searched through some of my own writing on the topic of love:
“Love starts with your relationship with YOU. If you don’t find a deep love for the being that you are, then your need for love from others will always be a desperate attempt at finding acceptance. And being actually loved, will always seem too good to be true.” – pierre –
“Love is a deep surrender to your true nature. To find yourself so utterly whole that nothing you could add from the outside could possibly make it any better! So whole that you are in fact complete, and there is nothing in this world that you need.” – pierre –
“It is when you realize that every “part” of you has really only been trying its utter best to fight for your survival, that you start falling in love with YOU.” – pierre –
I’m including a poem by Derek Walcott that describes a process which I have seen become true for clients over and over again…
When you take the time to revisit all of your imperfections… When you stop turning away from the things about yourself that you find “not quite good enough”, and bring these home to your heart… When you can find yourself saying, “yes, I can love this part of myself too…” – then indeed there will come a time when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door…
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Love After Love
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another,
…who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
– Derek Walcott
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Love is a deep surrender to your true nature, to find yourself so utterly whole that nothing you add from the outside could possibly make it any better.
Here are some guiding mantras to accompany your journey of self-love:
- I am worthy of love, just as I am.
- All parts of me deserve acceptance and compassion.
- My true worth comes from within, not from external validation.
- I am on a journey of self-discovery, and I embrace the process.
- Today, I choose to love myself a little more deeply.
Remember, the greatest love story you’ll ever experience is the one you write with yourself. This is never to try and say that we shouldn’t want to share our lives intimately with another human, but understand that no relationship can reach its true potential while the participants cannot stand the sight of their own selves.
So take a deep breath, embrace your wholeness, and rediscover the love that’s been waiting for you all along.
Have a beautiful Friday beautiful humans!
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.