Here is a heart-healing, sadness-ending spiritual fact. Welcome the light it brings by being willing to see the truth hidden within it:<\/p>\n
Regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been, nothing real lives in your past that can grab you and make you its captive any more than a dark shadow has the power to keep you from walking into the sunlight.<\/p>\n
Now, add to this fact the realization that there is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself, and you\u2019re on your way to living in a world without self-pity.<\/p>\n
To help speed your journey, welcome the ten special insights that follow as your trusted guides to a life free of tears. The more you work inwardly to understand their wisdom, the freer you will find yourself of all dark, self-compromising states.<\/p>\n
The only thing self-pity accomplishes is that it makes your life worse.<\/p>\n
\u00a0No matter how you look at it, not wanting some negative emotional state doesn\u2019t separate you from what is unwanted; it binds you to it!<\/p>\n
Being wrapped up in self-pity completely spoils any chance of being able to see new possibilities as they appear; besides, no one likes sour milk.<\/p>\n
The only thing that grows from cultivating any dark seed of sorrow is more bitter fruit.<\/p>\n
Manipulating others to feel sorry for you is like an alcoholic asking for a gift certificate to a liquor store.<\/p>\n
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.<\/p>\n
Feeling sorry for yourself is a slow-acting poison; it first corrupts and then consumes the heart, choking it with dark, useless emotions.<\/p>\n
You cannot separate the reasons you have for feeling sorry for yourself from the sorry way you feel.<\/p>\n
The heart watered by tears of self-pity soon turns to stone; it is incapable of compassion.<\/p>\n
Agreeing to live with sad regrets only ensures they\u2019ll still be with you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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