When you are judged, attacked, criticized, let it go quickly.
What others think of you is none of your business.
It says much more about the critic than it does about you.
Stay focused on living your own life on purpose and guided from within.
Those who seek the approval of others are distracted from their true course.
Those who spend energy defending against others criticism lose their way.
Those who look to the beliefs of the world to gather favor will be lost in worldly ways.
Those who defend, justify and explain themselves to “nay-sayers” waste energy on proving themselves.
Consider that each one is guided and directed individually with no one your external authority.
When we trust and respect our inner authority and inner direction, we simply need keep on track.
When we are respectful of ourselves, we respect others opinions, but need not join them in their way.
When we let go of judging and comparing our understanding or beliefs with others, we keep going.
The distractions of the world are many, but the guidance of spirit within is singular.
When we recognize our own path and honor the purpose for which we are ordained, we listen within.
Others who are lost, confused, blocked or fearful may be jealous and critical.
Others who have disregarded their inner calling may judge ours or seem to doubt or resent us.
When you feel the world is against you, you need to know that God, the Highest Good is always for you.
Take time to listen everyday to the Love and Inspiration within.
Take time to pray for the guidance you need to proceed on your own path unimpeded.
Take time to love, respect and trust your Whole Self and live life the Highest and Best way.
Playing small may be safe and comfortable.
Letting others tell you what to do will distract, delay and detour you from your own destiny.
Trying to defend, justify or convince others of the “rightness” of you choices, will expend energy.
When you use your energy to protect yourself, you may lose your focus and feel fatigued.
I heard Joel talking about using the “delete” button on your computer, which I shared years ago.
I know we are all listening to the same Source and resource and need to honor this call.
When something you are ingesting, hearing or feeling is not true for you, simply forgive and move on.
Forgiving is deleting and leaving only Love in its place.
Now it the time in our lives for us to “Go for It!”
Whatever IT IS for you, it is time to say YES!
Now is the time to delete all the blocks, limiters, fears and judgments.
This is your time to live your dreams, your vision, your inner guidance, your Greatness.
Life is for Giving.
You are the Gift.
It is in Giving that you realize the Gift you are.
Be All that you are created to be.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Teacher's Manual of A Course in Miracles.
P. 27 "Therefore lay judgment down, not with regret but with a sigh of gratitude. Now are you free of a burden so great that you could merely stagger and fall down beneath it. And it was all illusion. Nothing more. Now can the teacher of God rise up unburdened, and walk lightly on. Yet it is not only this that is his benefit. His sense of care is gone, for he has none. He has given it away, along with judgment. He gave himself to Him Whose judgment he has chosen now to trust, instead of his own. Now he makes no mistakes. His Guide is sure. And where he came to judge, he comes to bless. Where now he laughs , he used to come to weep."
Below is my personalized version of the above:
Therefore lay judgment down, not with regret but with a sigh of gratitude. Now am I free of a burden so great that I could merely stagger and fall down beneath it. And it was all illusion. Nothing more. Now can I rise up unburdened, and walk lightly on. Yet it is not only this that is my benefit. My sense of care is gone, for I have none. I have given it away, along with judgment. I gave myself to Him Whose judgment I have chosen now to trust , instead of my own. Now I make no mistakes. My Guide is sure. And where I came to judge, I come to bless. Where now I laugh, I used to come to weep. A Reminder My Friend Martha S