Self-Love makes our soul work sustainable
SELF LOVE NOW excerpt from author Calu Lema
Love makes our soul work sustainable; it allows us to fill up our bowls to be able to continue giving to ourselves, others and the planet.
Love is a practice: a daily undoing of conditioning, a moment by moment chance to rewrite our internal script and a repeated opportunity to gently hold our vulnerable self. It’s an ongoing commitment to strengthen the relationship with ourselves — our longest love affair.
My own heart once shared with me the following story:
“After spending eternity in the river of life we are born onto its bank and curiosity drives us to observe its fish of different colours, sizes and shapes. Very soon we are taught that some of these fish are “good” and some are not. We see how most humans react positively and feel happy by the fish they label “good”. The opposite reaction occurs when they encounter fish that are labelled differently. With no other reference we mirror this behaviour until it becomes our own. Over time, the amount of fish increases and decreases randomly until it becomes exhausting to celebrate a particular fish, feel sad or angry about the next one, get excited by the one that follows and so on. We focus on identifying and classifying fish and respond accordingly. However, occasionally life will knock us on the head or provide us with an unexpected -possibly overwhelming- and almost always mind-blowing, body-shaking, heart-opening experience and we’re given a bit of perspective. Surprised, we are able to see the fish without the labels and more often than not, enjoy their uniqueness. At one point we even feel the River itself: its flow, path and unwinding. In the appreciation of the River something shifts in us, something dissolves: our very sense of identity disintegrates. We feel eternity in our skin, in the air we breathe and in the rhythm of our heartbeat.”
Self Love is remembering we ARE the River and consciously choosing to sit on life’s riverbank to gain perspective and a renewed sense of beauty.
by Calu Lema
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During a ‘sharing circle’ Simon invited a spontaneous question; “Why is Self Love so important today?”. He was profoundly moved by the answers of those in the circle, so much so that over time that movement continued to birth an idea of a book of 54 diversely selected co-creators expressing their individual answers to the same broad and important universal question. Now you have the wisdom of these divine beings all in one place. Notice anyone you know? — Enjoy xxx
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