There is a difference between helping someone because if you don't you will lose their love or some sense of you own image as a caring person, and helping someone because your impulse of heart moves you to their aid.From: THE BOOK OF AWAKENING by Mark NepoREFLECTION: Reflect on someone you are helping now or helped in the recent past. What were your motives?Were you afraid to lose love or because your heart called you forth to help?
"Today I overheard an American teenager comparing her deprivation to that of our children (in Peru, South America), because her parents would only buy her a used car. There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives."Quote from THE SUNFLOWER by Richard Paul EvansREFLECTION:What abundance can you acknowledge today?Be grateful!
Fitting in is changing who you are in order to be accepted. Belonging is to be accepted by never compromising your authentic self. Quote by Brene BrownREFLECTION: Do you change who you are to fit in?Examine where you change who you are to fit in. Are you paying a price for that? How can you stop compromising your authentic self?What is one thing you will do today to BE-long to you and your authentic self?