When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the power of self-love and the importance of overcoming limiting beliefs.
Cheryl Richardson's quote highlights the strength of love, particularly self-love, in contrasting against our self-doubts and limiting beliefs. It suggests that even if one struggles to believe in their worthiness of love, the act of affirming love towards oneself can initiate a transformative process that encourages growth and self-acceptance.
In practice
During a self-care workshop focused on mental wellness.
If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.
You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world.
Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.
When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.
Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
Love either finds equality or makes it.
My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
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