There are zero pictures of me at my worst.
Why? Because I either refused to have them taken or destroyed them.
This is not the way.
It’s important to appreciate each stage of the journey.
Even the stages when you feel awful, ugly, stupid, hopeless, and/or unloveable. Buried deep within all that heaviness is an all-powerful, infinitely-renewable energy source that can propel you forward in ways unimaginable to the person who has only been granted lightness.
Lightness is an ideal—yes.
But, heaviness is an incredible tool.
And those who arrive at lightness through heaviness—feel raw lightness in a way that others only know how to take for granted.
And lightness taken for granted isn’t lightness experienced at all.
P.s. In Meditation #4 of The Art of Forward, I share a very similar concept as the one above titled, “The Ocean of Emotion Within.” Here’s a link to that meditation for free. :)