Love is the portal through which we can change our life and play an important role in the life of others. But when we do not feel enough love for ourselves things can be very challenging. I have personally learned this through my experineces, I've had an incredible hard time to love myself, embracing my wholeness and making peace with some aspects of my personality that I didn't "really liked". But I have also experienced that behind the masks we all wear there is beauty, there is an unquestionable love for our life and that of our planet Earth. This beauty for me isn't something which can be wrapped in a word, a sound, a picture, but a feeling of peace, a feeling of harmony within.
Every time we do not honour the beautiful and loving light within ourselves, the actions we perform in the outside world will always be missing a key aspect. That love that we can only pour from our hearts can be tangible only when we start filling our cups with the actions we perform everyday along with the great care we gift to our bodies and becoming attuned to receiving it from within too.
This is what I have learned through meditation, my personal yoga practice, experiences and studies. Establishing these pillars in my life has not been easy. The contrary is actually true and being a scientist hasn't always helped me. Science is a wonderful tool when you know how to use it in the interests of everyone involved, think about doctors who every days save lives and give hope to people. But reason can also be a trap, a challenges scientists have to overcome.
Being rooted in love for ourselves and the world around us often comes with a flavour of sacrifice, self-discipline, humility, honesty and willingness to forgive our supercharged egos. Only then we can get on the path to knowing ourselves in whatever role we might want to play in society.
I hope you will go back to a beautiful quote I have reported below, and resort to it as many times as you want to take in your strength from it, that strength that we all need to keep going with our daily work and mission to make this world a better and peaceful place for everybody inhabiting it.
Extract from " A Return to Love" written by Marianne Williamson.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us, there is nothing enlightened about shrinking [...]. We are all meant to shine, as children do. [That light] is not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others".
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