Cut YOU some slack!
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
~Alan Cohen -Inspirational Author, Speaker and Teacher
I stumbled on this quote and it stayed with me for days. It got me thinking about how often we believe we don’t deserve to be loved, to be forgiven, to be cut some slack. This belief is born out of a painful awareness of everything we are -and everything we are not- that we wish was different. Because we are our own worst critics, it’s often said.
When’s the last time you stopped to look around you and see all the people that mirror your beauty, your wholesomeness, your innocence and your purpose back at you? Call it counting your blessings, stopping to smell the roses, having an attitude of gratitude…fact is, there is so much beauty all around you.
Most important: YOU are part of it. There’s much virtue in self-affirmation…it needn’t be the stuff of which vanity is made.
