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“The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness. We must reclaim the truth about our lovability, divinity, and creativity.
Today, Creator of the Universe, we ask that You help us to accept ourselves just the way we are, without judgement. Help us to accept our mind the way it is, with all our emotions, our hopes and dreams, our personality, our unique way of being. Help us to accept our body just the way it is, with all its beauty and perfection. Let the love we have for ourselves be so strong that we never again reject ourselves or sabotage our happiness, freedom, and love.
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste—
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.” Shakespeare
“Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss” is a major work by 18th-century sculptor Canova currently displayed in Louvre Muesum. The theme of this marble sculpture is inspired by ancient mythology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaXY4IdZ40
Many nights we’ve prayed
With no proof anyone could hear
In our hearts, a hopeful song
We barely understood
Now we are not afraid
Although we know there’s much to fear
We were moving mountains long
Before we knew we could, oh yes
There can be miracles when you believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF3XjEhJ40Y
“The road seen, then not seen, the hillside
hiding then revealing the way you should take,
the road dropping away from you as if leaving you
to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,
when you thought you would fall,
and the way forward always in the end
the way that you followed, the way that carried you
into your future, that brought you to this place,
no matter that it sometimes took your promise from you,
no matter that it had to break your heart along the way:
the sense of having walked from far inside yourself
“People tend to move in the same direction as they always have unless some external force is applied. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my life to be lived in a straight line. I want to change, to improve, to crush it.
This is why I read.
A book is a powerful external force that can completely knock your life off its mundane straight line and change everything about who you are.”
Brandon Turner
From Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer, who has died from cancer at the age of 82. What a wonderful summary of all, from an interview couple of months before his death: