Tolerate our quirks, our feelings, our reactions, our peculiarities, and our humanness. Tolerate our ups and downs, our resistance to change, and our struggling and sometimes awkward nature.
Tolerate our fears, our mistakes, our natural tendency to duck from problems, and pain. Tolerate our hesitancy to get close, expose ourselves, and be vulnerable.
Tolerate our need to occasionally feel superior, to sometimes feel ashamed, and to occasionally share love as an equal. Tolerate the way we progress - a few steps forward, and a couple back.
Tolerate our instinctive desire to control and how we reluctantly learn to practice detachment. Tolerate the way we say we want love, and then sometimes push others away. Tolerate our tendency to get obsessive, forget to trust God, and occasionally get stuck.
Some things we do not tolerate. Do not tolerate abusive or destructive behaviors toward others or ourselves.
Practice healthy, loving tolerance of ourselves, said one man. When we do, we'll learn tolerance for others. Then, take it one step further; learn that all the humanness we're tolerating is what makes ourselves and others beautiful.
Today, I will be tolerant of myself. From that, I will learn appropriate tolerance of others.
From The Language of Letting Go
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Lots of beautifully heartening stuff here, Qx Thanks for posting it. I feel lots kinder & renewed again now! :D Recovery love, dear Carol xx Daniella x
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
Thankyou so much for posting this! I realize it is my biggest, baddest more harmful defect I have! I am so self sufficient (so the disease lies and tells me that) I find myself losing people all the time and making and "a: out of myself for the sake of me being right! Its funny I have been battling an AA group for breaking their traditions, but God tells me to love my neighbor and have tolerance and a closed mouth (ak!! closed mouth??? Mee) Anyway, I love you all. Allison
