Joy is Found Inside Yourself

QUOTES from Heroic Path, by Trafford

Criticism just makes us shrivel and die inside.

Can you look at yourself in the mirror and say, “I don’t like the way you feel right now….but I love you and accept you, just the way you are, and I am taking care of you!”

When you are unhappy or out of sorts, give yourself the same time and attention you would a beloved child who is feeling hurt or upset.  The little child within us is sensitive and responds to love.

Who then will give you the love and total acceptance you need for health and happiness?  It is up to YOU to find that love within yourself.

As you love and support yourself, so does God and the Universe support you.

Unconditional love has to begin inside you, right now.  Only then does life raise you up in strange, unexpected  ways and fill your life with miracles..

“Make a commitment to yourself to love yourself and find joy in your life.”

(Page 14)

Joy in your current spouse, marriage, home, family, friends.

Regardless of any response from others, joy is FOUND inside yourself—never outside yourself.

You can never give or make Love or joy in another person.

When you feel pain in your body when talking to another person they were injured in that spot.  Either by allowing it to hurt or being hurt first-- There is always a space of choice to accept as true or not.

Some pattern over again!

Because we have been hurt and criticized as children--we no longer believe in ourselves--or our ability to speak up! 

Which one is consistent and most honest;

Feeling loved  FROM EARTHLY Parents and Siblings or HEAVENLY Parents & Angels

“The highest mountains are almost always above the clouds.” 

  --Dan

An “enemy” is that which causes pain.  Perhaps agreeing with thine enemy, means agreeing with your pain—or someone else’s—in other words, acknowledge it.  

Honoring your pain is the first step to healing it.  Pain is like a cloud; it seems to be solid but is merely gaseous and can be moved, shifted and dissipated.

Some say that people change when they are married, but I say, “People try and change each other when they are married.”  Now that’s the misery!  We thought “love” and loving us meant, accepting us.  We didn’t’ know it meant anything else.  When we seek to change another person for our own benefit.  We chose them “as is”.  Perhaps this is why we are so happy around our friends…….we invite them into our lives when we want them in.  And perhaps this is why marriage is one of the most challenging and most unselfish of all relationships.

You know you have the freedom to not have them as a friend or take them as a friend, knowing exactly what they’ll give you, or not provide for your spirit’s growth.

For some reason, we look to the spouse to be the only one to “complete” us!

But how can an incomplete person complete you?

The only way to be Complete is to see ourselves as we ARE, and to Be Like The Christ.

They too are only made of bits and pieces of divinity; outwardly.

Inwardly we are all whole.  And it is, I believe, only when we go inward, and tap into our own, inward strength and true, whole and free connection to God, and the God within, that we truly feel complete; we’ve been complete all along!

A Realization of our Wholeness comes after a great deal of outer and inner challenges.

I believe when Jesus said to the people; be ye therefore perfect, even as I and my father are Perfect: he meant perfectly living and accepting!

Our bodies are like cracked armor, shrouding our perfect Spirits.  Each has cracks, dinks and holes in different places in that armor of flesh and mortality.  We can pretty much tell where the battle (pain) is taking place in, by different vibes and feelings we get from the person as we talk to them or interact with them.  We can also tell where our cracks are—whenever we get irritated or angry, that’s OUR weak spot to look at with the eyes of love—

How do we suit up in protective armor? 

 Put on the whole armor of God, or in other words, allowing our pure Spirit to come back into our be-ing and dwell.  Since our spirit is of God and Goddess elements, spirit, pure---we allow them to “come back” through being “empty”. 

It’s crazy, but our whole lives we work to fill ourselves up with good things; thoughts, intelligence, memories that serve us, being “mindful” and becoming “aware”….when in the end, we empty all of the noise, realize that “we” (the human element) is “nothing”, or “void”, and when we allow the void to be free and clear, clean and quiet, our beautiful, pure spirit can, and will, come into that void.  Not only does nature hate a vacuum, but so does the Universe!

The more we “try” the more we “die”. 

Some of the strange universal, God-written laws in the fabric of time and space;

-The more we give, the more we receive

-to get out of negativity, we must think of what we are thankful for….continually

-Sin is separation from God; or our pure spirit that is continually connected to “God”

-Righteousness=right thought, positive, loving; right words….right path

-we don’t “own” anyone!  We are “sealed” into the pure spirit realm

-dominion means stewardship

Getting away from our domination's through “love, sex and marriage; our focus on our loins, instead realizing ALL are to be “as a little child of God; humble, meek, submission to God, willing to submit to ALL GOD sees fit---and GOD always comes from the place of Pure Love and Truth….so why not submit to the Right Source?