You Are Love: A Radical Acceptance of Inner Divinity...And My Two Cents
'Everything happens for a reason' 'Life has no limitations, except the ones you make' 'Every cloud has a silver lining' 'When you're positive you attract the positive'
We all go through hard times in our lives. We all experience the vast emotional nature of being human day-to-day. Each person is on his or her own Spiritual journey, each individual as well as collective. The quotes listed above on this page are common motivational quotes that often describe the way we 'should' think, feel, act etc. however in reality sometimes we have to experience pain. There is often no human explanation that will suffice for some of the things us humans experience in our lives. The amount of loss that we go through, the amount of disconnection, unrequited love, let-downs, disappointments, broken expectations and of course betrayal.
I know from personal experience that life can change in an instant. When I was 19 years old I was in terrible car crash that changed the next several years of my life. For those of you who know me you will know that I had often said that there were times before that accident that I wasn't a very nice person. It was true in some respects. I was depressed, angry and not always very humble. But now in this moment looking back I think was really just feeling lost. I was experiencing things in my life that I couldn't explain - and no, this isn't a reference to psychic ability. I think what I was experiencing was a sense of loneliness and a sense of disconnection with myself. You see, prior to that car accident I had been admitted to hospital more than 8 times with depression and anxiety. Even looking back on that I think it was a feeling of being 'different' or 'disconnected'. I was often admitted for wanting to hurt myself but I think in hindsight I just wanted someone to see me. Not just physically but see into my heart. To show me that I was a good person. Or to help me to heal the sense of inadequacy that I had felt. I just didn't know how to go about it. I was in illness consciousness.
Even to this day I often go through feeling of being inadequate. Life is not perfect and it never will be but I will keep trying. After that car accident I really had to try and reclaim myself. I spent quite a bit of time in the hospital with Acute Stress Syndrome which later developed into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with symptoms of Temporal Lobe Dysfunction. I ended up abusing prescription drugs in order to feel grounded and normal. Going from Doctor to Doctor to try and find out what was 'wrong' with me I didn't spend much time trying to identify what was 'right' with me.
What I realize now though is that there wasn't anything right or wrong with me. There wasn't a diagnosis that would fix the way I was feeling. There wasn't a medication that would help. There wasn't anything anyone could've said to help not when I was 16 and definitely not at 19 or even 25. Love is the most powerful healer. That healer is within the self and I'm workin' on it. Healing is always a work in progress.
The one thing that I have learned, however, is this: The radical acceptance of our situation no matter how luxurious or shitty it is - is truly God at work and by grace and forgiveness and resonance with our own inner divinity we CAN find peace.
This realization didn't come as an Ah-Ha moment. It has come after my own journey of life. You have a journey too and as hard or as easy or as up or down it is -it is yours. Even as much as at times you may hate it, you must find love within it. Even if you love the fact that you hate it, I promise you that you will get one step closer to healing it because wherever love is - healing can happen. Even if it is a minute amount of love, that love can and will grow. It will grow as long as you feed it, nurture it and move with it. Remember that nothing stays the same, everything is borrowed in life, and that as long as you are living you can make it better in the physical world. There may be times that you lose sight of this love but please try to get it back as soon as you can I promise you that you are worthy of it.
'Never underestimate your power to make a difference.' 'Accept your Divinity.' 'Don't walk away from love (self-love or love from others).' 'Always put one foot in front of the other as hard as it can be at times.'
You will succeed. You will find love, make peace, and express compassion. But it has to start with you and it has to start right now. But just before you start it, do this:
Look around you. Find what you want to change or need to change. Then, with as much courage as possible, do it... If you can't do it right away at least roll in it for a while and think of solutions because as big or as small of a difficulty it is know that it's yours and you and nobody but you will change it in as many ways as it needs to be changed for it to fit in your life the way you want it to.
That's my two cents.
By Matthew Stapley
'Everything happens for a reason' 'Life has no limitations, except the ones you make' 'Every cloud has a silver lining' 'When you're positive you attract the positive'
We all go through hard times in our lives. We all experience the vast emotional nature of being human day-to-day. Each person is on his or her own Spiritual journey, each individual as well as collective. The quotes listed above on this page are common motivational quotes that often describe the way we 'should' think, feel, act etc. however in reality sometimes we have to experience pain. There is often no human explanation that will suffice for some of the things us humans experience in our lives. The amount of loss that we go through, the amount of disconnection, unrequited love, let-downs, disappointments, broken expectations and of course betrayal.
I know from personal experience that life can change in an instant. When I was 19 years old I was in terrible car crash that changed the next several years of my life. For those of you who know me you will know that I had often said that there were times before that accident that I wasn't a very nice person. It was true in some respects. I was depressed, angry and not always very humble. But now in this moment looking back I think was really just feeling lost. I was experiencing things in my life that I couldn't explain - and no, this isn't a reference to psychic ability. I think what I was experiencing was a sense of loneliness and a sense of disconnection with myself. You see, prior to that car accident I had been admitted to hospital more than 8 times with depression and anxiety. Even looking back on that I think it was a feeling of being 'different' or 'disconnected'. I was often admitted for wanting to hurt myself but I think in hindsight I just wanted someone to see me. Not just physically but see into my heart. To show me that I was a good person. Or to help me to heal the sense of inadequacy that I had felt. I just didn't know how to go about it. I was in illness consciousness.
Even to this day I often go through feeling of being inadequate. Life is not perfect and it never will be but I will keep trying. After that car accident I really had to try and reclaim myself. I spent quite a bit of time in the hospital with Acute Stress Syndrome which later developed into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with symptoms of Temporal Lobe Dysfunction. I ended up abusing prescription drugs in order to feel grounded and normal. Going from Doctor to Doctor to try and find out what was 'wrong' with me I didn't spend much time trying to identify what was 'right' with me.
What I realize now though is that there wasn't anything right or wrong with me. There wasn't a diagnosis that would fix the way I was feeling. There wasn't a medication that would help. There wasn't anything anyone could've said to help not when I was 16 and definitely not at 19 or even 25. Love is the most powerful healer. That healer is within the self and I'm workin' on it. Healing is always a work in progress.
The one thing that I have learned, however, is this: The radical acceptance of our situation no matter how luxurious or shitty it is - is truly God at work and by grace and forgiveness and resonance with our own inner divinity we CAN find peace.
This realization didn't come as an Ah-Ha moment. It has come after my own journey of life. You have a journey too and as hard or as easy or as up or down it is -it is yours. Even as much as at times you may hate it, you must find love within it. Even if you love the fact that you hate it, I promise you that you will get one step closer to healing it because wherever love is - healing can happen. Even if it is a minute amount of love, that love can and will grow. It will grow as long as you feed it, nurture it and move with it. Remember that nothing stays the same, everything is borrowed in life, and that as long as you are living you can make it better in the physical world. There may be times that you lose sight of this love but please try to get it back as soon as you can I promise you that you are worthy of it.
'Never underestimate your power to make a difference.' 'Accept your Divinity.' 'Don't walk away from love (self-love or love from others).' 'Always put one foot in front of the other as hard as it can be at times.'
You will succeed. You will find love, make peace, and express compassion. But it has to start with you and it has to start right now. But just before you start it, do this:
Look around you. Find what you want to change or need to change. Then, with as much courage as possible, do it... If you can't do it right away at least roll in it for a while and think of solutions because as big or as small of a difficulty it is know that it's yours and you and nobody but you will change it in as many ways as it needs to be changed for it to fit in your life the way you want it to.
That's my two cents.
By Matthew Stapley