There are always emergencies. In your life there will always be emergencies. Every day you chase after them, you try to fix them, to limit the damage, to take care of the whole world… until you realize that the greatest emergency has become you.
How easy it is to forget yourself and to think that your time comes later, that it will come when everything is solved. But that time never comes. And your Self waits—first it inspires, then it whispers, then it shouts at the top of its lungs, and finally it rises with full urgency. It tells you clearly: “Now you will have eyes only for me. Otherwise you will live a life without me, someone else’s life.”
If you are not there, it’s not worth it.
If love for yourself does not come first, if it does not arise from within and change you inside, how can it overflow into the rest of the world?
Whatever your story may be, however much effort you are putting in, give yourself a chance.
Let go of the past—it no longer exists. Do not blame yourself even for the way you have handled things so far, because your way protected you when it was probably the only one you could use.
What is needed now is your commitment to yourself in the present, the commitment to rediscover how to place yourself back at the center.
Many people think that when everything is sorted out they will find peace, but wonderfully, it is the opposite: when we find peace, then everything falls into place.
Every day you have a choice from which to begin again: to be your own priority, or to become your own emergency.
A courageous hug