Love yourself--accept yourself--forgive yourself--and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
~Leo F. Buscaglia
When we continually beat ourselves up for a mistake we made, we're just feeding our ego. In order to move on in our lives, we have to forgive ourselves.
OK, we said something stupid, we hurt someone's feelings, we disappointed a friend. What good does it do to keep reliving it? The best thing to do is to make what amends you can make, and think about how you can do it different next time.
Most people hold on to their guilt because they have the misconception that our depth of guilt reflects our level of love and remorse. But the truth is...when we hold on to our guilty feelings, we commit the ultimate betrayal: abandoning ourselves.
By letting go of self-hate and stopping the replaying of the event in your mind, our ego has nothing to chew on and we remove the judgment from the action.
Let yourself off the hook today.
I'm holding the high watch!
Donna
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