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Start by accepting that you’re loved + worthy of love.
Brief meditation on why this “little” thing matters so much. 12.09.24
The beginning point of all sustainable transformation starts with two premises: Accepting that we are loved — right now, as we are, no prior conditions to be met — and accepting that we are 100% worthy of that love simply by virtue of the fact that we were born onto the planet.
If we don’t consciously understand ourselves as unconditionally loved + also worthy of love, then we will unconsciously move towards striving. We’ll assume we have to work to get something that we are hardwired to experience but that we also feel is always beyond us.
People who are in this place (all of us some of the time, some of us all of the time) will either move towards trying to be Very Good or Very Special in order to prove that they deserve the love they long for.
I know I’m a stuck record on this, but:
Once you see it, it’s very difficult to un-see.
Very Special is a bit easier to notice, just because it tends more towards the flashy. It includes stuff like:
- always having to be seen as a “winner”;
- the endless accumulation, flaunting, and/or hoarding of material abundance;
- that grasping sense of…
