What Are You Connected To?
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.”
Mother Teresa
Love is in the air! Yes, it’s Valentines week! And yet, so much of what’s in the news isn’t focused on love, it’s focused on fear – a looming recession, the mortgage meltdown, the Iraq war.
I think the quotation from Mother Teresa says it best. We struggle most when we lose our connection to each other, to what really matters. The most important connection of all is the one we have to our inner knowing, our authenticity. But with the frenzied pace of life – the “have it all now mentality” so many fall under, it’s so much easier to do more and more, producing, laboring, racing on the endless treadmill.
Loving someone or something else begins with an ability to see beauty. To be able to see the beauty all around us, we must first begin to see it in ourselves. It’s an illusion to believe that we can truly love anything else while berating ourselves.
So, on this Valentine’s Day, when so many of us are focused on love, I encourage you to start with yourself.
Do one thing this week to reconnect with who you are, what you believe, and then what you love.
The world will thank you.
Most importantly, you'll thank yourself.