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EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE...
Yes, everybody needs love, first and foremost for themselves. That's what the teaching of maitri is about. It is about
compassion and loving-kindness, and that we must first find it for ourselves before we have it to give to another. We can't
give from an empty well. This exercise is meant to help you fill the well. Please, try it. I've done it for a long time with
my students and it works. Believe in it. Believe in YOU. What have you got to lose? If not, why not? If not now, when?
I send this to you with all the love in my heart...
THE LOVE LOG.... (as in logbook...)
Go buy a CHEAP notebook and a new pen you really love. Okay, now, every day you take your notebook, sit in front of the mirror
and look at yourself (Yes, even if you have bed hair and feel like you don't look your best. That is all artifice, it's not
about who you really are.), and write boldly about 100 things that you love about yourself. Short phrases.
And don't think hard. Things like....You always liked your blue eyes, the color of your hair, that you are kind, that you
have a pair of gorgeous blue socks and orange Crocs to match. You love that you love your dog, the taste of cold water, you
love picking up smooth stones and putting them on an altar. You love pasta. I mean just keep writing as fast as you can, be
silly, crazy, soft and sentimental.... you had a wonderful grandmother you used to make grape jelly with in the summer, you
like the color of your car, you like that you are not anal retentive about having to have a perfect house but are just grateful
for what you have and you love that pink pillow on your old couch.
Get it. Little things. Simple things, at least 100 things. Do it every day for 21 days (you know, they say anything you do
for 21 days becomes a habit) and at the end of 3 weeks your mindset will have shifted in the direction of self love, of loving
all the wonderful things in your life, those blue socks, the jar of bubbles you walked around the streets with blowing bubbles
everywhere, WHATEVER.
Isn't it time to learn to love yourself, to become an overflowing vessel of love so that you can offer it to the world, to
everyone you meet. It is important for us to learn to do this. It is an important part of healing the planet.
If not, why not? If not now, when?
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