When we are feeling unloved and depressed and empty inside, finding someone to give us love is not really the solution. -- Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
Each of us wants to be significant to someone else. And we are -- we're significant to all the lives we're touching at this very moment.
The emptiness we sometimes feel is a good reminder that the women and men in our lives need our attention. Too much self-focus fosters our feelings of loneliness, and then with desperation we look to others to fill us up. The paradox is that we heal ourselves while offering our attention to another who is, by design, on our path.
It is not by chance our lives are intertwined. Loving someone today will heal two wounds, ours and theirs.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Never looked at feeling emptiness in that manner before, When I'm like that I'm empty inside. That is when I truly find myself talkin to my higher power and asking for guidance. And ya know that feeling goes away. I do have alot to be greatful for and give thanks for what I have today.
Loved this, it reminds me of that big dark hole inside me before Recovery, and when I found a Loving God, he fills that up on a daily basis, do a gratitude list, and let the day manifest itself, all by itself really, from that simple acknowledgement of my own deep Gratitude to God, and the abundance that grows from that simple humble Thank You.
