Today, challenge those beliefs with the knowledge that you are both extraordinary and ordinary. Love loves you - specific you - with great tenderness and adoration. And Love loves everyone else exactly the same way. Do your work with a humble sense of service, recognizing and appreciating what others bring. Don't invent sacrifices Love is not asking you to make in order to bolster your ego.
Our low sense of worth can lead us to mistreat ourselves, but so can our ego. We imagine that we can endure more than most people, so we should take on heavier work and emotional loads. We are more capable, we think, of going without food, sleep, or love in order to get an important job done. Our mission is particularly important, we believe, and we feel affirmed by the sacrifices we make in order to fulfill it. Maybe have been asked by others in our lives to carry more than our share, and have been praised for it - and that becomes our sense of identity.
Today, challenge those beliefs with the knowledge that you are both extraordinary and ordinary. Love loves you - specific you - with great tenderness and adoration. And Love loves everyone else exactly the same way. Do your work with a humble sense of service, recognizing and appreciating what others bring. Don't invent sacrifices Love is not asking you to make in order to bolster your ego.
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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