Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Self Doubt

Whenever someone doubts you, or your doubt yourself, no need to panic or get angry. You need only look honestly at what is being doubted in you. After all, the doubt is just about something in you, not the whole person that you are. You can't doubt a whole person--that's judgmentalism; and we don't have to live under that curse, whether from others or from our self.  But if you or someone else is doubting something in you, again I say, don't panic or get angry. Just look at what's being doubted, and ask yourself "Is there any truth in it?" And with some of it, the answer will be "Yes. There is some truth in it." And that gives you the opportunity to either 1. Do something about it or, 2.Bring it into Grace, or 3. Some version of both 1. and 2.  Therefore you do not have to condemn yourself because of something you doubt about yourself. You can stay free. In a peaceful, confident place; not because you are perfect, but because you are trying to get life right, which means that you are devoted to living in Love and Truth. And that is the best any of us can say. Some people either never doubt themselves or seem to never doubt themselves. Those who seem to never doubt themselves are often those who are honestly looking at their faults, bringing them into Grace, and plunging onward, trying to do good. Or they are those who never doubt themselves. We earnestly hope that these [those who never doubt themselves] have a healthy dose of humility, because those who do not doubt themselves and lack humility are dangerous for the human family. Some of the most evil people in history seemed to have been supremely confident in what they were doing.

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