Your thoughts are like drugs that alter your perception of reality. Mental habits such as comparison and fault-finding are intended to make you feel good, but rarely do. They just strengthen your false identity and generate a background of negativity that darkens the way you see yourself, others and eventually, the entire world. Conversely, accepting the reality you perceive as being exactly what’s required in this moment, even when you can’t see the perfection, will relax you, make you more loving and place you squarely within the nourishing light…
Of your own internal sunshine.
Steve and Jarl
Beautifully put! In AA, I learned thirty years ago, “Identify, don’t compare”.
That is perhaps too brief, but it makes a great mnemonic standin for this gratitude. Comparing and blaming just hurt the perpetrator. ‘They ain’t no future in it no way.’