{"id":1983,"date":"2010-12-22T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heiniger-net.ch\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2010-12-22T21:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:46:55","slug":"als-ich-mich-selbst-genug-zu-lieben-begann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/archives\/1983\/als-ich-mich-selbst-genug-zu-lieben-begann\/","title":{"rendered":"Als ich mich selbst zu lieben begann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emo\u00adtion\u00adal suf\u00adfer\u00ading are only warn\u00ading signs that I was liv\u00ading against my own&nbsp;truth.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I know, this is \u201c<span class=\"caps\">AUTHENTICITY<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I under\u00adstood how much it can offend some\u00adbody as I try to force my desires on this per\u00adson, even though I knew the time was not right and the per\u00adson was not ready for it, and even though this per\u00adson was&nbsp;me.<\/p>\n<p>Today I call it \u201c<span class=\"caps\">RESPECT<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I stopped crav\u00ading for a dif\u00adfer\u00adent life, and I could see that every\u00adthing that sur\u00adround\u00aded me was invit\u00ading me to&nbsp;grow.<\/p>\n<p>Today I call it \u201cMatu\u00adri\u00adty\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I under\u00adstood that at any cir\u00adcum\u00adstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and every\u00adthing hap\u00adpens at the exact\u00adly right moment, so I could be&nbsp;calm.<\/p>\n<p>Today I call it \u201c<span class=\"caps\">SELF-CONFIDENCE<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I quit steel\u00ading my own time, and I stopped design\u00ading huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and hap\u00adpi\u00adness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>Today I call it \u201c<span class=\"caps\">SIMPLICITY<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I freed myself of any\u00adthing that is no good for my health \u2013 food, peo\u00adple, things, sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions, and every\u00adthing the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this atti\u00adtude a healthy egoism.<\/p>\n<p>Today I know it is \u201c<span class=\"caps\">LOVE<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">OF<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">ONESELF<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I quit try\u00ading to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the&nbsp;time.<\/p>\n<p>Today I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that is \u201c<span class=\"caps\">MODESTY<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I refused to go on liv\u00ading in the past and wor\u00adry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where <span class=\"caps\">EVERYTHING<\/span> is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it \u201c<span class=\"caps\">FULFILLMENT<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to love myself I rec\u00adog\u00adnized that my mind can dis\u00adturb me and it can make me sick. But As I con\u00adnect\u00aded it to my heart, my mind became a valu\u00adable&nbsp;ally.<\/p>\n<p>Today I call this con\u00adnec\u00adtion \u201c<span class=\"caps\">WISDOM<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">OF<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">THE<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">HEART<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>We no longer need to fear argu\u00adments, con\u00adfronta\u00adtions or any kind of prob\u00adlems with our\u00adselves or oth\u00aders. Even stars col\u00adlide, and out of their crash\u00ading new worlds are&nbsp;born.<\/p>\n<p>Today I know <span class=\"caps\">THAT<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">IS<\/span> \u201c<span class=\"caps\">LIFE<\/span>\u201c!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>by Charles Chap\u00adlin, from a speech giv\u00aden on his 70th birth\u00adday, in&nbsp;1959<!--more--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emo\u00adtion\u00adal suf\u00adfer\u00ading are only warn\u00ading signs that I was liv\u00ading against my own&nbsp;truth. Today, I know, this is \u201c<span class=\"caps\">AUTHENTICITY<\/span>\u201c. As I began to love myself I under\u00adstood how much <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">\u2026<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/archives\/1983\/als-ich-mich-selbst-genug-zu-lieben-begann\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue reading&nbsp;\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}