Pride - A word that is so very often mis-interpreted by 'mainstream' religions.

On one hand, you are eagerly instructed to be 'proud' to be a member of their gathering/group/holistic family. Then in the next breath, you are informed that to be 'proud' of all you have achieved, or to be 'proud 'of how wealthy you are, the beautiful home you built, and many other similar examples is actually wrong and frowned upon as 'pride' and this is the 'wrong' way to be, act or feel!

Goodness me! Now there is a contradiction! What is this word PRIDE, that it can be used in so many different ways by so many to suit their beliefs, so as to create this literary confusion for so many souls who just want to be/feel proud of themselves and their acheivments in life!? This is complete and utter rubbish. Man made reasoning at its worst! As always.

Would the Creator have given to you the mind, the wisdom and the ability to do all this, purely for your comfort and enjoyment, simply to then say to you that you were 'NOT to feel proud of what you have gained' through trusting in The Universe to work with you so as to gain it?

The word these archaic thinkers SHOULD be using is arrogant, NOT pride.

It is another story, maybe even more so, to have all you need, to gather material possessions around you, only to then go about neglecting the poor and the hungry, never sharing your wealth and good fortune, meanwhile 'bragging' of all you have gained and achieved...forgetting exactly where it came from...by whose blessing it was brought into your life! This is the epitome of ARROGANCE and ungratefulness. NOT PRIDE.

All you have and all you will EVER have comes to you through your own thinking and effort. BUT it is blessed, permitted and ordained through your efforts BY the Universe and your deity, your personal Creator/God/Goddess.

Do NOT be so shallow as to believe all you have, or have done is simply yours by your 'own' making. It was in the 'sense' that you brought about 'by actually permitting and receiving it' into your life, your circumstance. Just as you do all the negative, hardship and sorrow that comes about when you loose your focus.

Remember your blessings, and give constant thanks. Share your abundance so as to increase this blessing to all.

Be PROUD, feel PRIDE... of WHO you are, WHAT you have done and all you HAVE gained and brought into your life, for it IS your right to do so. Your CREATOR given right. 'God created the earth, and saw that it was good.' Was he/she/they in fact feeling 'proud' of this creation? Think on this!

 

Strength - What is this?

Is it simply physical brawn and muscle? A power that flows out from within us when we are faced with danger and misfortune? Is it a momentary or learned feeling?

No. It is a universal 'state' of mind, for you can have all the muscle in the world and still be weak. Yet, you can have no muscle but as a parent, lift 10 times your body mass when it is threatening to the life of your child . You can save the life of one you hold dear...or even a stranger. because you don't have time to 'PHYSICALLY' doubt having the strength you need to do this.

Strength does NOT encompass the physical as such. It encompasses your mind. The WAY you think. The WAY you re-spond (not re-act) to things in your life. It is that KNOW-IN'g within you that you can and WILL change the circumstance you are facing, BY utilising you inner strength. That you CAN and WILL succeed at anything you choose to.

Those who were down-trodden and demeaned in their childhood know well what this means. Some carry on throughout their life being the 'under dog', while others grow an inner 'strength' to change this and become very power filled beings, by rejecting the past from their adult lives.

Yes, my friends, strength is simply a 'decided AND accepted' state of thinking....of BE-IN'g. As a man/woman thinketh, so he/she is. Think on this!

 

Pride and Strength - Are emotions E (= energy) Motions (= Movement) that is needed, in fact required by ALL earth living souls, SO as to live a successful and happy life while here on the Earth realm. All we should take with us as we leave the house each morning to head into our day are these two powers, for ALL other feelings radiate outward from them in one way or another.

We should always, in ALL ways, carry these two 'virtues' within us, and use them in all decisions, all 'moves' we make. Be guided by them in our choices made for our lives. They WILL guard us, making sure that whatever we do we will be in a KNOW-IN'g that it is/was the right decision...and when used, they leave NO room for self doubt.

When you operate y0our life with the strength AND pride we are all born with, you WILL and DO achieve great things within your own journey here on Earth. There will be NO room for regret or indecision, and even when it doesn't work out the way YOU think it should? Your 'pride and strength' will allow/guide you to see and accept what is...without self judgement.

And therefore, when you go forth from this planet to be received back to the centre of the Universe, you will be in the KNOW-IN'g that all you could, should and would have done....you have. For you will have done it...willingly, well and mightily.

BE Proud - BE Strong - BE YOU.