Dating : You Don’t Have to Believe In God If You Believe In People…

You don’t have to beg, borrow, cheat or steal if you believe in people who are good and loving, and want to help you. If you believe in the love within other people, you can be honest about where you are at, what your struggles are; internally and externally, and they will want to help you succeed because of the love that is in their hearts.

If you believe in people who will not hurt you, but will cherish you as a human being, and hold you sacred because you exist, you can trust there is always hope because where you falter, others will lift you. You can exit abusive relationships and communities having faith that ones that cherish your individual mental health, love, and freedom, are, very much so, out there.

Above all though, to believe in the goodness of other people, you have to believe in the goodness of yourself. If you lie to others, they will not trust you — they will not want to lift someone up who could hurt others with their selfish whims. Everything is cyclical…If you lie to others, you believe others will lie to you — the world becomes an entirely scary and mistrustful place when we ourselves as individuals make choices of dishonesty. It also becomes entirely scary and mistrustful when others have betrayed us. But in order to break the cycle — in spite of it all — we have to be the goodness and trustworthiness we want to see from the world in order to get it back from the world. Because my dear — we are the world. Each of us. So for every individual, it starts with you. Not God. Not awaiting a perfect community. You. You are the community.

Stop making mistakes and praying for forgiveness. Grow and work on yourself, and be a pillar of strength because you built it within you. Now, that is Godly.

When someone says something we do not quite agree with — we do not jump to quiet judgment and silence. We have faith that in loving guidance, our words can teach each other, and share with each other new ideas. If we believe in the growth of ourselves, we believe in the growth of others. If we love others, we believe they are deserving of the time it takes to celebrate them by teaching them something new and beautiful. We do not quietly disdain them for being different than us, because that disdain is often just thinly veiled insecurity. When we cannot listen to other opinions, we do not grow ourselves…When we cannot grow, the world devolves. All of it, a cycle.

What, you do not like what you are hearing? Does it offend you that someone else could say something loving, who doesn’t share your exact philosophy? Let it go. There are some things we are never going to know in this life. Allowing other positive lights freedom and releasing our ego is the very process of surrender itself. When we surrender and allow others to blossom we are literally allowing love to heal the world before our very eyes. We do not await it. Again, everything starts individually. Within you. That means, it’s your own responsibility to heal, and to release your own ego. So you were wrong? If you cannot acknowledge that, you will never grow. Being wrong does not make you a bad person — living in that wrong because you are too afraid to acknowledge that you are wrong, is what causes this world to be held back. Let go, be free, surrender. Let love.

Everything we address, we give power to. If we all decided one day, collectively, that money had no value, it wouldn’t.

If we all decided one day, that our government had no power over us, and chose instead, to live our lives the way we as the people saw fit, it wouldn’t.

Let’s give our power to making this world beautiful by being beautiful ourselves. Not waiting for a quick-fix. By working on our mental health, and doing the hard work — acknowledging when we are wrong, and by being accepting, loving, and encouraging of others. Not threatened by them.

Here is a revelation for you. Power is a concept. Love, is not.

Each of us working on ourselves, on our mental health, and on our — faith — in a beautiful, encouraging, and trusting world, inherently causes our success. It starts with you. Do you love yourself? Then love the world. There it is. That cycle again…

PS: And if you are religious…Why do you think God created this world, huh? Because he didn’t believe in you? Get to work!