Different expressions, yet they mean the same thing.
At the core, there is a question to ponder around whether we truly show love and care towards ourselves. Our mind may say we do, yet our actions may reveal that we are self-delusional and self-deceiving, even self-sabotaging.
Our patterns arising tend to show what dominates our reality and what has underpinned our experience.
Many of us feel insecure and riddled with foibles, for we see the lack of integrity within ourselves or the tendency to do things that are less than loving and less than healthy.
Years of abuse, however subtle or tacit, can make one believe that they are worth that or that such things are the norm, and this can be corrosive to our sense of self and esteem.
Beyond the evidence of the reality that has happened, there is a you that is far greater, deeper, higher and richer that is abundance exemplified.
Life often presents the contrasting experience to sharpen our focus and to jolt us to awakening to the fact that we are settling for something that does not interest or inspire. Perhaps we are choosing out of default and deference when what makes our heart sing or soul soar just feels unreachable, unthinkable, or impossible.
When we live in the shadows of life and hide our truth, we tend to search for our needs to be met in suboptimal and often unhealthy ways. We seek out substitutes for we consider ourselves unable and unworthy to truly have what we wish or want for there is a gap, a gap between who we are and need to be to receive it and that gap does not seem to be closing.
Resting in our truth, being honest with where we are now, is part of embracing the present to realise your dreams. Step by step, every day in every way.
Go within to win. 🙂