by Merci Gracia | Sep 14, 2012 | Acceptance, Conditioning, Freedom
When you accept the fact that you won’t be liked by everyone, you enjoy the freedom of just being you! No matter how hard you try to alter your personality to fit the preferences of others, you’ll inevitably come up lacking in some peoples’...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 10, 2012 | Acceptance, Awareness, Boundaries, Evolution of Consciousness, Judgments, Natural, Perception, Present moment, Self-Awareness, Understanding
You are capable of far more than you realize. To experience the limitless person you are beneath your conditioning, try looking at everything without judgment. Stepping outside your subjective notion of right & wrong and good & bad opens up unforeseen creative...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 5, 2012 | Acceptance, Attention, Awareness, Control
Anger can arise when what’s happening in the moment is not what you expect or think should be happening. While anger sometimes motivates you, it also diminishes your effectiveness and obscures what is from clear vision. You can’t see the entirety of...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 3, 2012 | Acceptance, Appreciation, Compassion, interpretation, Judgments
When you recognize the truth that most people are inherently good, you know that the reason they sometimes behave in ways that don’t appeal to you is due to their wounds. If they’d had ideal lives and an excellent capacity to understand and absorb each new...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 2, 2012 | Acceptance, Anger, Awareness, Compassion, Discernment, Love, Self-Awareness
The intensity of the charge you feel when you judge others actually shows you where you don’t accept yourself. Little or mild emotion indicates that you’re discerning. When you have no trace of the behavior yourself, you’re likely to feel compassion....
by Merci Gracia | Aug 30, 2012 | Acceptance, Forgiveness, Love
When you truly forgive yourself and others, stress melts and life begins to flow. Do it by letting go of anger, resentment, blame, judgment, shame, guilt and unworthiness. It doesn’t actually matter whether you can think of the specific things you need to...