I Dig Your Soul

The first rule of love is

Not to forget is exists

We try so hard to find it

We over look it and then laugh later about how it was there all the time

 

The second rule of love

Is to enjoy it

Love doesn’t get you down

It guides you

 

Love tells you who you are

When you choose someone to love

There is always always something in them that is in you

Or you couldn’t see it in them

 

So when you meet people and you are attracted to them

Know it is the similarities that you both have that you could see

And you can only love another as much as you love yourself

And you can only allow another to love you as much as you love you

 

So if your love doesn’t go too deep

Then don’t expect a relationship to

We expect so much from love

When we don’t know what to ask of it

As though it should know for us

And then lead us to bliss

 

Love is as active as you are

As slow as you are

As honest as you are

As forthright as you are

 

Love is always here

Available and ready

Until you tell it what to do,

Where to go

Who to share you with

 

So the next time you find yourself

All excited and happy

Don’t wait for love to tell you what to do

It is waiting for you

To steer it and bring you to who you are

 

 Love is so simple that it scares me to realize

How little we know of it after all of this time

I still wait for it to notice me

But really it was just how little we know of ourselves

To notice it’s waiting at the gate!  

 

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Finally a day to say

To remind ourselves

To remember

To speak out loud

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How do I forgive myself

That is one unopened gift

How do I have compassion for myself

Yet another unopened gift

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We speak in life, I have been able to forgive….another

I can now go on

Yet what is forgiveness?

How do you forgive yourself?

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To forgive is to say I have not learned

Compassion will speak that you have learned

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You see, it is not about forgiveness at all

Forgiveness says that you will overlook and get over something that hurt you

Whether you did it to yourself or to someone else

It is to say, that you have not learned the lesson so you will forgive the action

And then what?

Do you just go on forgiving forever and not going further as to why you are doing it or allowing someone else to do it to you?

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Compassion to yourself, to others, to say, Yes, this happened, whatever it is, and we will learn from it

Compassion to understand the motives, the reasons and to say, I understand why you did this

Is there another way to get what you need

Without hurting yourself or others

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In teaching children

There are three rules of discipline to follow

Don’t hurt yourself

Don’t hurt others

Don’t damage or destroy property

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That is truth for all of us

If we don’t hurt ourselves, we actually do not have a need to hurt others

Damaging or destroying property is usually a byproduct of being hurt

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When we forgive ourselves or others we are acknowledging we are hurt or hurt another

Compassion is the step after, we can’t just stop at forgiving

Compassion reminds us of the human part, the part where we gain self understanding and love

With words like

I know you didn’t mean that

I know you are hurt already

I can see now your intentions are good for me, or maybe they are not

Is this a safe place for me to grow

Or is this teaching me this is not the place for me to stay and learn of life

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Forgiveness is like a power play or relief button

Compassion finds a soulution, and landing place, a mutual caring for what results in what has happened

Compassion is the way to get past anyone having to forgive anything

It is the place where we learn why, not just what

Where we see motivation rather than action only

Where we grow within ourselves, then someone else

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Self accounting, self love, growth

It all starts in the solutions, not in the answers

Anyone can say yes or no

Yet the parts that say why are the growths

The parts that say why are the teachers

The moments of discovering are when you can go on and live past those moments

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There is a vast difference between forgiveness and compassion

Compassion teaches love and forgiveness gives power to someone to grant it

Compassion soothes and grows and forgiveness is saying, I have forgiven you so many times, now what?

The crutches of living in doing and forgiving

Rather than speaking and learning

Breaks the cycle of not paying attention to yourself with excuses

And brings back the questions you had as a child

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Why, is one of the greatest questions any child asks and doesn’t stop until they find out

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It is their happiness so that they can go out and play

They already understand that full disclosure is their freedom

Quietly as we “look” so much smarter than them

Look again, there is still an unopened gift under your tree

It is called Self Love

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To purchase your copy of the newly released book, “Origins of Truth” by Nadia Khalil Bradley, please visit her website at http://www.originsoftruth.com

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