"If I need your approval, I can't see you."

It is late but it has been so long since I posted anything. I was literally finishing up some paperwork and looking for something on my desk when I found a quote that I wrote down on some random piece of work and serendipitously ran across it tonight.

"If I need your approval, I can't see you" is a really bold reason to practice I LOVE ME. There are so many selfish benefits to gain from practicing I LOVE ME but there are also so many benefits for those in relationship to us.

When we pracitce really loving ourselves, our need to seek approval from relationships goes away and what is left is real fun and relatedness. Some feel that the most healing thing we can do for others is SEE them...something we so rarely give or receive to one another in our busy, money-earning, doing-filled and approval-seeking lives. There is just so much beauty in people that we can actually really see and be inspired by when we have the calm-centeredness that "I LOVE ME" brings about.

One could change that quote and replace the word approval with virtually anything. But don't take my word for it...see for yourself.