Never judge or look at a person differently then yourself. you could have been them, you could have seen or been where they were as a child. You don't know how you would have traveled their path if you had different luggage, a different path, and different tools. Most importantly stop looking down on yourself. Stop hating who you are. Your no different then them, and they are no different then you. Some say your body is a vessel, a temple. Some say our conscious mind sees only an illusion. An illusion of reality. God, a presence of unity, or an unsuspected inner resource; whatever you may have it. Give in to the insecurity, the fear, the guilt, the shame. You are nothing more than everything is. You are everything and more than you would have it be. No different but not the same. The paradox continues as a loop. Stop trying to control it, stop trying to deceive yourself of your independence. Stop trying to claim your slavery. You are not and never have been any of these. You simply are. You can't make it perfect, or right, or wrong. It is what it is. The inner self is like a blooming flower. The more it surrenders to the light and the water that nurtures, the more it will grow. If it was able to block out the flow of nature then it would wilt. The more we try to control and block out, the more we wilt. Let love, connection, whatever word you choose be your catalyst to surrender to what is happening, let go of what has happened, and the fear you may have of what may be. May you surrender.
