Everyone lives their lives their own way. Each one unique, different in one way or another. Respect this.
Do not settle for surface value. We have neglected the deeper aspects of human experience and pushed it aside for a materialistic approach to bandaging our discontent. By changing the world, we have neglected to change ourselves. Through our haste in placing blame on others, we have neglected to ask how we can improve.
Don't stereotype. Who are we to presume the inner dynamics of something as complex as human experience? Investigate. Relate. Get to know those around you. CONNECT. It is an odd feeling when in the midst of millions we feel alone and alienated. In an age where over 6 a half billion people are relatively easy to communicate with and learn about, we can still feel like there is no one that can understand us.
Live freely, fully, and simply. Practice humility and compassion. Exercise your ability to imagine another individual’s experience and the numerous factors that have contributed to it’s creation. Appreciate the process that is taking place within each and every one of us, and be open to bearing witness to it all. Allow yourself to engage in a phenomenon that is amazingly rare in this universe. Out of all the energy out there, how much of it can relate and be related to, to the point of empathy?
I do not know you, but you are who you are. You are unique. Never allow this to be devalued. I wish I could bear witness to it in a direct fashion. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. Either way, you are, and I appreciate, respect, and love that. Never compromise yourself for the enjoyment of others. Be like water; break down what impedes you, and encourage the growth of life around you. Adapt to the situation at hand, but don't let it change your composition. Stay true to yourself and always allow others to stay true to themselves. Encourage it.
Love. First, learn to love yourself. Then, expand that to others. See yourself in them. See it all. See what we share. The insecurities, the tribulations, the fears, the pleasures, the pain, the appreciations, the sentiment, the emotion, the logic, and really feel their desires for relation, understanding, acceptance, and of course, love, as much as you feel for your own.
Love freely. Do not put a price or condition on it. Do not sell it or allow it to be owned. Do not restrict it. Do not feel that it makes you weak, or leaves you open for harm. It is a free and powerful energy. It can motivate you to move mountains, it can leave you open for the vast richness that is there for your experience. If you can love those who do you wrong, if in the midst of pain you can only profess love, then you have gained such an amazing power in conscious ability that you will be beyond their influence. They may harm your body, you may experience great physical pain, they may do whatever they can in their power to change your opinions of life, the world, and of them, but your soul will remain uncompromisable. You will have achieved a state of integrity that truly represents the beauty of your being.
You ARE beautiful. Embrace your imperfections. They are as much a part of you as your greatest assets. They define you, and in that unique definition you have a beauty that can never be taken. Embrace every single piece of yourself. And as with love, never sell that beauty. Our society emphasizes the physical because we have marginalized the human element in daily life. We walk past countless faces yet we only ever expose ourselves to their cosmetic appearance. We define and express ourselves to others through the physical objects that we can afford to surround ourselves with. What more than the unconscious material that we place such a value on can be further removed from the true human experience?
Society will bombard you with an enormous amount of energy and influence to dictate who you should be. Do not give in. Do not sell out. They will tell you how to look. They will tell you how to dress and act. They will tell you what you should know. They will make you feel inadequate, discontent, and ugly. They will try to convince you they have what you need. Do not give in and do not do this to others.
You are you, and that is all that can be asked of you. If someone demands more, they are only compensating for their own state of weakness and lack of love. In their haste to place blame, they neglect themselves. They will only steal away your ability to love yourself, they will sap the power to dictate your experience that you were born with. Never allow that. It and the moment are all you truly have.
Everyday remind yourself of the things you love. A life without love is an empty shell, desperate to be filled. If this is how you live, you will quickly sell yourself to others. You will forever be chasing the shadow of yourself because you will be running from where you truly are. Don’t run from suffering. I have found it is when I suffered that I truly found myself. These were the pivotal points in my life. Seize that opportunity to learn. Seize that opportunity to strengthen and improve yourself. There is a beauty there, as there is in all things. Seek it out. Remember that some of the people who suffer the most, live the fullest and most freely.
Engaging in hate is an exercise in futility and is wasted energy. It will leave you closed and unable to experience fully. If you sow the seeds of hatred, you will forever live in a garden of thorns. You may even wear of crown of them. You will set yourself ablaze and destroy what you love. You will destroy yourself.
