近讀 “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”，取得許多啟迪，如點點晨星，那麼溫柔，那麼安靜，陪伴我度過心靈的晚上。
Accept Yourself
When you don’t accept yourself, you become oversensitive to rejection.
When you don’t accept yourself, you lose faith every time you trip over an old weakness.
When you don’t accept yourself, you waste time looking for love to make you complete.
When you don’t accept yourself, you try to beat others rather than seeking your best.
When you don’t accept yourself, you overvalue material things.
When you don’t accept yourself, you always feel lonely, and being with other people doesn’t seem to help.
When you don’t accept yourself, you live in the past.
Acceptance is not a hopeless position; it’s the only position from which you can grow.
If you accept all of your life, none of it will have been wasted.
When you don’t accept yourself, you dread what each day may reveal about you.
When you don’t accept yourself, the truth becomes your enemy.
When you don’t accept yourself, you have no place to hide.
Accepting yourself is everything.
If you accept yourself, you can accept the world.
When a Dark Memory Returns
Don’t fight it.
Permit the intrusion without regret.
Let the memory or old feeling have its way with you.
The sadness of a lost love, a rebuke or betrayal, or a hurt that cut deeply left you wounded. It returns, takes your breath away, gives you pause.
Measure the depth of the hurt, but from the safe distance time provides.
Know that because the hurt is past, the resentment will cool.
Don’t push the painful feeling or memory away.
If you let it through without resisting it, it will pass.
Push it away and it will build, seeking the expression it needs to relieve the old pressure.
That is the way of old pain, pressing to the surface till it fades. Old pain comes in waves.
How can you stop a wave?
Ride the reappearance of your old emotions, but don’t try to hold them back. You’ll use up your energy, lose faith in yourself, doubt your strength and wholeness, and ruin your day.
Let the old hurt pass, acknowledging all that it means, and in a moment it will be gone. The hurt is diminished, and so is the likelihood of return.
The moment is returned to you.
The Wisdom of Feelings
In feelings there is wisdom, for the simplest feelings speak the greatest truth.
Pain in life comes from avoiding the truth that your feelings tell.
Any road that avoids feelings cannot be right.
Hiding from your feelings only makes you go in circles.
Become comfortable with your feelings, because your feelings are your life.
Trust your feelings. They’re the only true guidance you’ll ever get.
If you know what you’re feeling, you know what the world is revealing to you.
If you cannot be true to your feelings, you cannot be true to yourself.
Trust your feelings, but first you have to know what you really feel.
When you find out when a feeling started, you also find out why.
The feelings you are afraid to release cause you to hold onto other things.
Stay up-to-date with your feelings. Don’t store them. When a feeling ages, it becomes less honest.
The more immediately you express your hurt, the more completely it resolves.
Stand up for your feelings and you’re free to be yourself.
You have to be able to cry to live fully, for tears in the right place cause healing.
Your feelings are explanation enough. Let them speak.
The greatest credential is the human heart.
還有太多太多，不能盡錄。
出處：David Viscott (1993), “Finding Your Strengths in Difficult Times- A Book of Meditation”, USA: McGraw-Hill
