Unconscious reactivity makes your choices for you, leaving you feeling bullied by life, and powerless.
Life favors awareness; awareness of every sense and dimension, for through awareness comes choice.
Being aware of personal deficits is empowering, compared to no awareness at all, as to why life seems to grant one little favor.
Unconscious reactivity is a form of low self-awareness — even more dangerous than low self-esteem.
There is a difference between having a reaction, and using a reaction.
Never allow your insecurities to create insecurity in others.
We should rather sacrifice our egos, if it helps another ascend beyond the suffocating reach of our own insecurities.
Being loved feels good to us all, but when someone impresses us, that commands respect. I'd rather be impressed and respect you first, but if we have both love and respect, well — that is just unparalleled!
One of the most powerful and practical forms of unconditional love, is being impressed — with those whom we disagree, and even more so, with those we know may not even like us, or our way of seeing the world.
When we really care for people's development and wellbeing, our admiration of their impressive accomplishments feels even more deeply satisfying, than their admiration of our own opinions and accomplishments.
