Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Equality

Take responsibility for what is yours.
Take responsibility for how you respond.
Take responsibility for how you treat yourself and others.
Take responsibility for your place as leader, teacher, healer, role model.

Give your best and let the rest go.
Honor yourself in all circumstances.
You need not feel guilty or blame others.
You need merely teach with your thoughts and words and activities.

Treat yourself and others with respect.
See everyone as your brother or sister.
Talk to others as you wish to be spoken to .
Honor yourself by not casting judgment on yourself or others.

Often we withhold and become passive because we are afraid or feeling guilt.
Or we may be overly aggressive because we see the other with disrespect.
Sometimes we flip flop back and forth passive-aggressive in our interactions.
The inconsistency is due to misperception of the situation.

We want to give our best, because we feel better about ourselves.
Others may give their best or they may fall short.
When anyone gives less than their best, they feel guilt.
With guilt comes withdrawal and avoidance or blame and attacking the other.

When I am not peaceful, it is because I have stepped off purpose, out of integrity with myself.
When I am upset, it is because I have forgotten my True and Authentic Self…being my Best.
Taking some time to center and ground myself in remembering is the key to coming back to Peace.
Being willing to immediately forgive myself for the ways in which I have lost my way.

The primary gift I give the world is giving my very best in every relationship and activity.
It is in giving my best that I receive the inner peace and fulfillment that I deserve.
It is in living my highest values that I sustain the joy of being alive and of service.
It is in following my calling and honoring what is highest and best for all that I am truly happy.

When we are comparing with others, we may be looking to be better than…..
When we are evaluating our performance, we may be seeking to find our mistakes.
When we are criticizing our self and others, we are distracted from our own highest calling.
When we setting ourselves as greater than or less than others, we have forgotten our worth.

Life is a continuum of opportunities to see and feel, to be and heal, to find our place just right for us.
Life gives us experiences in which to notice when we are on or we are off.
Life places choices before us everyday…to be happy or sad, to be forgiving or angry, to be limited or free.
When we see life a universal laboratory of discovery and realizing what works, we can appreciate it all.

Loving you and me as we set ourselves free to be happy!
Betty Lue

¤      I love you      ¤
and I know you love me too.

LOVE IS FREEDOM
The freedom for you and I to be who we are.
The freedom to live life as we do.
The freedom to make mistakes and learn from them.
The freedom to express our own truth as we see it.

LOVE IS TRUST
The trust that there is a constant flow of love,
no matter what.
The trust that, in spite of life’s problems,
we believe in and support each other’s right
to live as we choose.
The trust that in adversity,
there is healing and learning and gifts of love.
The trust that under conflict and emotional expression,
there is love

I love you and I trust you.
I free you to be all you are.

Betty Lue 1978