There it is. The entire All You Need To Know for why we should not lie...or cheat...or steal. I loved that quote the minute I first read it.
I did not begin to fully comprehend its depth until I realized it as applying to me and me alone. I do not lie (exaggerate a little here and there, but not lie); I for sure do not cheat (knowingly at any rate), and I haven't stolen anything in years (uh-oh...does another's peace of mind count?).
It was a shock to my innards when I quit seeing only how the many and varied Gertrudes in my life would benefit from knowing and showing that in her/his life. That's when I realized that escaping the consequences of my own mistakes encompassed my continuing to live in fear of being wholly loved by my own self...to accept my own frog-self as princess.
Equally important, when I realized that deceiving myself to escape the consequence of my own mistakes meant owning my withheld love...love for the person(s) who hurt me, attacked me, called me less-than, my enemy if you will. For, truth to tell, my own mother could fit in that place at more than a few times in our lives...and I know that my mother loved me and would never knowingly do anything to hurt me, and I toward her.
I wonder today if my own mistakes aren't simply my fear...fear of letting myself be wholly known, wholly loved actually. By My Father within. From my eyebrows up, I know that is and as all...and certainly the most daunting thing I've ever tried for...wanted...and held myself back from consciously receiving. Ah, but it's in my trying that I fail.
Trying to surrender is to continue the struggle. Sigh.
Thank you.
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